Onboarding Language Assistants
Welcome to our summercamp season!
Welcome to our camp! We’re really happy that you are interessted in our camp. We offer an amazing opportunity to teach English in the great outdoors. It’s fun for the kids, and our language assistants love the experience so much that many come back year after year.
Information Package
Here’s everything you need to know to consider your stay with us. You can look in to travel arrangements and get an impression of your time at camp:
- Camp Locations: Details about where you’ll be staying.
- Pack List: Essentials to bring with you.
- Teamer App: Our important tool for paper-free camp administration.
- Program and Games: An overview of our activities to give you a first impression of what we do at camp.
- And most important: Paperwork:-)
Where we are!
Our Camp Location is a youth hostel with about 100 beds, situated at the start of the Gunzesried Valley, surrounded by mountains, lakes and forrests.
Jugendhaus Elias is a charming and welcoming hostel nestled in the picturesque region of Allgäu, Germany. The hostel is designed to provide a comfortable and enjoyable stay for all its guests, it has an indoor gym, outdoor sportscourts, a disco room, loads of individual group rooms, a table tennis room and a pool table room. This offers loads of opportunities to offer activities to our campers.
The language assistants will be staying in nice ensuite rooms, usually 2 – 3 people sharing a room. The hostel offers really nice food, however, it isn’t great with vegan food, so if you are vegan it’s helpful to bring your own favourite spreads (for sandwiches) and snacks.
You can find our camp location here:
Closest train station for Jugendhaus Elias it is Blaichach or Immenstadt station.
From Munich airport it takes about 3hours to get there, from Memmingen aiport it is 1,4 hours (Ryan Air Only). You can also fly into Zurich, just book trains in advance.
Accommodation before camp and Arrival
We will provide food and accommodation during the camp but we are happy to host you at our family home a day before camp if that helps with your travel arrangements. Our first Camp starts (3. – 9. of august) starts on sunday at 4 pm and finishes on the saturday at 10 am. Make sure you plan plenty of time (check the DB navigator app) to get to your airport.
To plan your trains in Germany use the DB Navigator App or Trainline.
Getting there
Memmingen Airport (Ryan Air) and Munich Airport are the closest airports – both airports are about 3 hours from our hostels by public transport. Just be aware that with some evening flights you might not get here – the last train from Munich leaves at 8pm. (It’s one hour from the airport to the train station). There is also Zurich airport, sometimes it has the cheaper flighst.
Closest station for our summercamps is Blaichach station, on the same trainline you get off at Immenstadt station (one stop beforehand) to get to mine!
Getting from Sprachcamp to the Airport
Most camps finish in the morning of the last day, you can leave anytime after that.
There is a Bayern ticket within Bavaria, that allows you to travel within all of Bavaria – and share with up to 5 people. There might also be a 49 Euro ticket – check with me or the Deutsche Bahn about special offers. There isn’t a special discount if you book in advance, unless it is long distance travel.
The following websites can help with your planning:
http://www.allgaeu-airport.com/passengers-visitors/getting-to-the-airport/bus-train/
Roles and Responsiblities
You will be shadowing one of our qualified outdoor instructors, helping to run a group of about 12 kids. You are there to help kids practice their English and just talk to them. You will get the chance to learn about our lanugae teaching methods, Outdoor Education and you will probably pick up loads more games and problem solving tasks along the way.
We have one movie project where you’d be running your own group of kids of 6, supporting them with their story line, the dialogues and the filming.
We always have Juniors (11 – 12 year olds) and Seniors (13 – 15 year olds) at our camp. They run in separate groups during the day, but we do spend about an hour per day in the evening to have one activitiy together.
Games
We do run evening programms for our kids each night. It’s always nice if you can offer an activity that you really like, i.e. capture the flag, a beach volleyball tournement, table tennis rouners, football, frisby,….
If you are interessted to get to know some of our team and board games that we run during the day, have a look here:
Team Games (Problem solving) we might play:
- The marshmallow challenge, a really nice TED talk about the challenge / Tower of Power/ Pipeline
Word Games / Icebreaker Games with focus on Speaking English
- Emotion Cards
- Zoom (Prep for Photoralley)
- Werewolves (Card Game, very popular)
- pass the bomb,
- Sussed
- 5 second Rule
- Poetry for Neanderthals
- Snakessss
- Bumfuzzle
- Herd mentality
For debriefs: Picture / Emotioncards
Here is our manual for the camp. It is quite an extensive collection of team games and English language games: Sprachcamp Manual
Also have a look at our Summercamp Programme for one of our holiday camps.
Kit List
- Slippers for the hostel
- Outdoor clothes,
- Waterproofs
- A daypack
- Water bottle, lunchbox
- Depending on the season: hat, gloves, a warm jumper,Sunglasses, swimming gear
- Toiletries (ex: shampoo, toothpaste/brush)
*For the hostel: a towel, PJs, earplugs – we provide bed sheets for you! You don’t need a sleeping bag
You don’t need a sleeping bag for the hostel, they provide bed sheets for you.
Paperwork:
There usually is some kind of paperwork involved, as you will be on my payrole, however, as there is so many different visas and permits just get in touch with me and I can let you know how to proceed.
Please understand, that sometimes we cannot always help with your visas at is not always possible to help you with that, depending on your nationality. Thanks for your understanding.
Payment: As agreed. It helps if you are on a student visa or similar, to put you on our payrole.
Teamer App
Please register yourself with our teamer app. If you haven’t applied through our online application, please use our short cut and register here, so we can get you logged on.
Cancellation Policy
If a camp week has to be cancelled we will we will let you know asap. We had fully booked holiday camps for the past camp seasons.
If you get ill, we would really appreciate immediate notice and help with looking for a replacement. I would advise you to cover insurance for cancelled flights on a travel insurance policy. Unless you have a super cheap Ryan Air flight, where the damage is slightly less.