C.Our hours from New York City, bus to a camp on the outskirts of the Pokono Mountains in Equinunk, Pennsylvania. At first glance, it could have been any traditional summer camp: rural cabins that gathered around a long pine, a vacuum cleaner green grass around a bright lake and a flag that is proudly standing in the center. But the illusion was not long. A DUNKIN ‘Donuts truck was parked by water and delivered the caramel frozen cafes, replacing the open fields, and the LA Croix coolers shattered the routes. This Walden Camp Parents’ trap – It was a social camp.
The 28 -year -old LIV Schreiber Social Camp is the first launch Hot and social – A community and event company for people at the age of 20 to 40 – after trying to move alone in New York at the age of 21.
“My parents had spoken to New York City as a welcome, pervasive and easy city for friends, and after I arrived, I loved,” Did they lie? ” IndependentHuman beings said that although he had always been able to love him easily, in New York, he found that he could no longer just walk to one tape and talk. “I was kicked somehow, I just wanted to meet other people,” he says.
His experience resonated with the thousands of young adults who are sweeping the so -called “loneliness”. According to a recent report by Harvard Graduates of Education, 21 percent of US adults feel lonely and 73 percent of it is technology. So the entrepreneur decided to create events from himself, where the only obligation was to appear yourself and leave with a friend.
From hot and social events, from pickup partners to private dinner, the idea of summer camp only created women. “I went to a growing sleeping camp and found out that the fun versions of adult women weren’t very fun,” Sharibar says. “We have to make up, we have to do our hair, we have to choose a dress, we have to look beautiful and get together. We have to get content. This is very perfectionist and fake.”
However, one of the humor of the social camp is that despite its ethics to eliminate the pressures of the 21st century, the evils from the camps want to gain “influential experience”. Entering their dormitories, camps can expect to find sponsor -filled end bags: Dunkin gift card, a small bottle of non -alcohol, dried fruit, wipes, a flashlight and flashlight. This is just one of the ways Schreiber justifies the $ 883 price tag for two nights (women can also pay extra $ 599 for a private room). “What another camp has as a Donkin sponsor?” Shariber asks immediately, “and can give a land end bag with more than $ 500 free gift? Can’t be compared to just another sleeping camp.”
As soon as we left our luggage in the rear, it was quickly off the weekend. The first trip to a bulletin board was in the heart of the camp, offering activities from art and crafts to yoga boulders and rock climbing. I finished running at the woman sitting by the bus, and she introduced me with a small group of her cabins. We spent our evening explore campus campus, while using the shortest lines for the activities we can find and led us to tie tie shirts and candles.
Before the “cocktail clock”, there was a short rest, full of a precise and accurate board and from the Blake Lively brand, Betty Booze. Conversations were easily flowed – where people came from (some people from overseas), what they have attracted here, what they did for fun. Taylor Kahn, 25, told me, “I went to the camp as a child and really loved all the friends I made there.” “This is my second year here because it was a lot of fun last year.” For someone who was afraid of knowing anyone, I realized how fast strangers could feel like friends.
Sharibar told me the most popular age group of women this year was in the mid -30s and 60s. “The camp is for women who are not like me, who are not my age, my background is my ethnicity, so I feel it has really succeeded in attracting people from all over the world at any age and background,” she said.
After a buffet -style dinner from pasta and salads (with donuts for desserts), we gathered for a pleasant message before opening the tape and divided into our shelters to participate in a MTV Sync Lip battle. They all danced the night to a local group playing in Taylor Swift and Jonas’s brothers, which was the perfect opportunity to revive my childhood sleep when my friends danced and danced at my mermaid CDCD.
The next day it began to be clear and early, with this option to participate in a 7am in the lake or the Yoga and Pilates class, the latter that I was able to draw myself significantly. Participation was optional; You can dive into your activities or sleep last night. Until the middle of the morning, the camp had at least six live activities and offered everything from climbing and rock climbing to lake painting with Mimos and a friendship bracelet.
Through each activity, I bounce between the friends I previously added to my circle by talking to anyone sitting next to me. Before I know this, women were just approaching me left and right to see how I work or I am interested in pursuing them in the next activity.
Traditional campfronts were also playing: colored war with volleyball, human fozball and team flag painting. A pool party with a giant waterfall and lake swelling. Dinner that night was in the style of barbecue and followed by a dance party with pajamas theme and an outdoor show from Parents’ trap Under the stars-we were in the camp, with all the snacks of classic film and fried potatoes and curly and Mozzarella.
As much as everyone seemed to love their time in the social camp, there were constructive criticism. Aleisa Visouki, 30, told me she didn’t feel enough to enjoy everything the camp was offered. “It is only difficult to sit down and in the scenery with all the options,” he said. “I wish it was more like Thursday to Monday instead of Friday to Sunday.”
Rebecca Taylor, 30, admitted that you want to have more frost activities to prevent people from sticking to their cabin groups. “I still wish there were more network opportunities,” he said.
“Many of the people I met were from New York so I would love to group all who live near me or another area.”
Until Sunday morning, burnout was caught with most of us (myself). The camps rested between activities such as zombies or after two nights. When it came to quit before the buses come out between 11am and 1pm, there was a photo to take a photo of the last moment with new friends
I couldn’t lie that after I finally got off the bus in New York City, I didn’t know what to do with myself. What do you mean, my friends and I couldn’t go to the warehouse and finish our decorations? To make things worse, I was able to find more with women who lived throughout the country and I was not in New York near me.
It was difficult to say goodbye to the feeling of doubt on arrival. Sharibar’s slogan that “99 % solo and 100 % leave as friends” was calling – my camp group currently has a group chat that has set up programs for a virtual handicraft for next week.
The social camp may be much more expensive than a traditional camping trip, but what it offers is a really unique experience that has been reinforced by a wide range of activities. This is an environment where women really encourage each other and do not care about appearance.
There is a common misconception that groups of women inevitably derive the dynamics or dynamics of the “middle girl”. I never saw any of these in the social camp. This may be the price tag. Perhaps this is the choice of eager women. Or maybe it is really the magic that Schreiber has hit.
Whatever it was, I felt nothing but welcome, support and root throughout the weekend. As the cheese looks like, I left with a group of friends I never met in New York, each of which was worthless in their own way.
