Before camp:

To do List

• Send a copy of your passport (pdf or photo) to our email address
• Fill in our staff questionaire – you will then get a contract depending on your current job status (i.e. freelance, unemployed, at uni)
• fill in the profile with all relevant information in your teamer app.
• For our Webpage: Please send us and email with a nice portrait picture of you (or one that you are recognisable) and a brief profile text for our team page *see example here: https://sprachcamp-allgaeu.de/team
• Please also have a look at our sample programm and the manual. (see below)
• Read through the safety manual for the Grigri+, the belay device we use in all our climbing activities. In addition, review this video if you are unsure how to use the Grigri.

For UK passport holders only (work permit paperwork):

• Please fill in the Vorlage Erstantrag questions 1 – 13. If you cannot fill in the pdf, just send me the information in an email. I will then do the form for you and send you a signature request via Adobe.
• A letter of permission so that I can pick up your work permit at the foreign office. I need your signature for this – they don’t accept a digital one so please print and sign and send a picture of it back to me.

Induction days  for our upcoming season

There will be an induction day on the 7th of May / 21st of may/ 9th of July / 8th of October / 15th of october, starting at 1 pm.

It is compulsary for those who haven’t done a camp before or who want to familiarize themselves with the location or review any of our English language games. (The day before your first camp with us is your date for your induction day) 

Please come prepared. I expect you to have read the manual and please watch the links for the games. For our first day you will need a first draft of your first half day and you need to introduce one of the games to the team. 

Our Locations for our schoolcamps

The camps are located in the Allgäu mountains or in the Kleinwalsertal valley of Austria. The area is truly stunning.

We work from Bergengrün, Bergheimat and Schlössle, three houses that are quite close to each other, however, it’s different busses that you need to take to get to them.

We are right in the middle of the mountains and we can walk our groups almost everywhere straight from the hostel. There is lots of hiking paths, nice spots in the river to do landart or  shelter building or survival skills.

Accommodation before camp and Arrival

We will provide food and accommodation during the camp but also one extra night before our camp week. If you work two or more camps in a row then we also provide accommodation for the weekend in between camps. It is usually possible to catch a flight back on the day that camps finish – for schoolcamps that is Friday morning, for holiday camps it is the Saturday morning.

If you arrive a day early for induction day or camp, we usually book you in at Oberstdorf.

Make sure that you filled in your food preference in the teamer app, so that I can order the right food. The hostel isn’t great with vegan food, so if you are vegan it’s helpful to bring your own favourite spreads (for sandwiches) and snacks.

If you can only catch an evening flight, please book yourself into one of the airport motels. They should be quite cheap and we will reimburse you for that (within your travel budget of 300 Euros).

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)

Closest station for all our schoolcamps is Oberstdorf station  – for the Summercamps, Eastercamp and the following schoolcamp it is Immenstadt station. Check in with us if you are not sure.

Getting from Sprachcamp to the Airport

Most school camps finish in the evening with our final S’mores night and you can leave anytime the next morning – students usually pack up and leave around nine thirty.

All camps in the Kleinwalsertal have a bus stops nearby, buses leaving for Oberstdorf every 10 minutes, plan for an extra 35 mins to get to the next train station (Oberstdorf).

Games

Equipment, that we provide:

• loads of games ropes, pens, paper, lego bricks, smurfs, picture cards, feeling cards,
  For bushcraft: flint steel, knifes, pans, tarps, Vaseline, cotton wool

Games you should be looking at before camp, just follow the links. Enjoy watching.

Team Games (Problem solving) you might want to revsise:

• 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 your debriefs: Picture / Emotioncards 

Kit List

• Outdoor clothes,
• Your Climbing gear (Safety Gear)
• First Aid kit
• 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: slippers, a towel, PJs, earplugs  – we provide bed sheets for you! You don’t need a sleeping bag

Travel expenses

Your budget for travelling is a maximum of 300 Euros. Please plan your travels on a tight budget, if possible. We strongly advice you to book your flights in advance or keep your eye on the prices. Expecially during holiday peak times i.e. the summer prices are bound to sky rocket.

You can claim flights, train tickets and other expenses. We cannot except taxi fares or week long parking tickets at the airport. If you have questions, just send me an email.

You can include insurance to cover cancelled flights or tickets.

Please also get in touch if you need an advance payment on flights.