Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey

Let me tell you about my little experience with the Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey. I visited your girl scout camp "Camp Glen Spey", for one week over the summer and I have to say it was by far the worst experience of my life. First of all, the camp is not at all what it looks like in the pictures. The pictures show big, beautiful sailboats. However, the camp actually provides small canoes, nothing like the big sailboats. Also, the food was terrible. No joke, the eggs were literally like pudding. These two things were not even the bad part. There are no signs or anything on your websites about the "no phone policy" so my friend was on her phone. Our counselors took her phone away and never gave it back. Like ever. Like she still doesn't have it. Supposedly, our counselors threw it in the lake. This camp features its "amazing" lake. Well, this lake is not amazing, the lake is literally black, you can't see even a centimeter under water. Then, our cabin had to use the "5 minute shower limit". My friend used the shower over 5 minutes, and the counselors dumped a bucket of mud on her, ruining her brand new sneakers and also leaving her no choice but to shower again. The "cabins" weren't actual cabins. They were just beds in the middle of the woods. My counselors hated us, so they signed our cabin up EVERYDAY to do the chores, when the cabins were supposed to rotate doing the chores. Also, everyday after lunch, the counselors would throw water balloons at us. NO ONE THOUGHT THIS WAS FUN, BUT THE COUNSELORS DID IT ANYWAY, GETTING ALL OF OUR STUFF WET EVERYDAY. The counselors thought everything they did to us was fun, but it was just cruel. The counselors also loved embarrassing us. My friend didn't want to go swimming because she was on her period, but obviously the counselors forced her to. She dropped a pad on the ground and the counselors held it up to the whole cabin and embarrassed her. Honestly, the best time during the day was "free time" because we didn't have to be around the counselors. Words cannot even explain how bad this experience was. A girl I met there hated it too (obviously). So when we were using sparklers, she purposely burned a little bit of her face, just so she could stay in the infirmary (A.K.A. any place but at the cabin). About half way through the week, we were asked to write letters to the office about our experience. The counselors said the letters would NOT be read by the counselors, only by the office. Obviously, everyone in our "cabin" wrote awful things about the camp and the counselors. Not keeping the promise, the counselors read the letters. Obviously, they were mad. So, they ripped up everyone's letter and threw them away because they didn't want to lose their jobs. I wanted out of this place. So, I wrote a letter to my parents asking them to pick me up. When it was time for the water balloon attack, I asked if I could stay inside, so my letter didn't get wet. That was when the only nice thing the counselor did for me happened: she said yes. But then the other counselor came inside and threw the water balloon specifically on my letter and ruined it. My only letter. My only stamp. My only way of contacting my parents. Gone. The counselors said they would mail it once it dried, but I didn't believe it. Now this whole experience with Camp Glen Spey was four years ago. Just this summer, I received the letter. FOUR YEARS LATER. I do not know my counselors names as they used nicknames, one was "Bloopers", another was "Woodchuck", and another was "Six". Hopefully know one knows who they are because they were hopefully fired. Hopefully. The day we left camp I started crying because I was so happy to leave that awful place. I felt like I had been there for decades. I would not recommend this camp for ANYONE.