Activities Assistant
CurrentI am an Activities Assistant at Thousand Trails Campgrounds, a collection of campgrounds owned by Equity Lifestyle Properties. I work at two sister campgrounds in Marmora, N.J, Echo Farms and Red Oak Shores. At each campground, I work with two other members of the Activities staff to plan and execute events for all ages. This job has given me experience working with different personalities and working out event ideas that were different than what I pictured. As a group, we discuss attendance of our events and take down notes for future Activities staff. We are able to discuss what went well with our events and what we can change for next time. Something I have really enjoyed is that I have been able to bring my artistic personality to this position, such as designing promotional posters for our events using Canva. I also lead certain events that lean more toward the artistic side. For example, I was a square dancing instructor for our Wild West Weekend, I led a record-painting session for our Sock Hop Weekend, and I provided face paint for the kids on a few different weekends.Each weekend has a specific theme, and I have enjoyed coming up with unique event ideas that match the theme of each weekend. I was the head of planning Fairytale Weekend, where we held a storytime, a tea party, face painting, Disney movie nights, and more. (I really liked that one because I got to dress up like a princess!) I have learned a lot about social media management in this position. I am becoming more involved in running Facebook accounts for the two campgrounds, and I hope to create content such as photo collages and short videos. By becoming more involved on our social media pages, I hope to share the events we held and encourage campers to attend future events.