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So In four days I will go camping in Austria...cool huh? Except for my period and other countless woman problems I will have on the trip! So this isn't a "little" camping trip. It is a hardcore 2 week real camping experience! I talking about tents and no bathrooms!! Plus! It's in Austria...and I don't know German! But thats just the small stuff... heres the real problem...
First off I will have my period at the beginning of the second week.I've already been staying in Germany for a month now... and mother nature planned for my trip so perfectly so that I would have my Period three times while I was staying away from home...long story short...I'm short on pads. I know, I know...USE TAMPONS! But that doesn't work for me. Again I am so "lucky" that I have my period for a week...thats right...seven days! So the amount of changing required for tampons plus the rarity that I will have time to change my tampon (and where to put it) makes it so inconvenient for camping. AND if that doesn't make tampons inconvenient.. My period is heavy, and I bleed very heavily for five days...and thanks to the time change I bleed the most at night...yah...goodbye sleeping bag... At home when ever I use tampons I always leak...and the only ones that protect my undies feel like socks! So I guess I have no choice but to double up on pads or something but the problem is that I've already used most of them and I don't have may left for this time around...and the camping is in four days...and I go to german school with my friend Marianne...and to be honest I'm kinda embarrassed to go shopping for pads (I know, it's something all women have to do).
Ok...now about the other problems which are minor in comparison all link to bathrooms and showering. As for bathing...we have a lake. The main part is that I'm worried about what products I can use in a lake and how to go about cleaning my hair. My hair is curly and I like it that way because my hair naturally makes soft locks and looks really nice and I usually get complements. Taking care of it is easy...all I need is water,conditioner, and a comb...but even the easiest of hair can get tangled when you don't have what you need to take care of it and mine is no exception. Ever since I got my hair cut shorter it's been really hard to get it into a braid when it's dry and I won't have all the time in the world or even a proper shower to tame it. So the other problem is that I'm not fond of using the "outdoors" as my bathroom. I really don't know how to "just go" and I am very clean when it comes to things like this. If I could bring one thing at a deserted island, toilet paper would be the 3rd on my list. So really all my troubles focus on hygiene because I'm pretty athletic and I've gone camping for 2 weeks before...just not this intense.
and if you were wondering...I'm going with the scouts (girl/boy scouts) that my friends Marianne goes to. Marianne is more worried about the hiking and physical strength stuff. I travel a lot for my age and to tell you the truth this is the longest time I've been away and completely alone.
Answer
Ok first off, the period issue.
1) Forget about your awkwardness, go to a shop and buy some pads. Now. If you can't get over your embarrassment, just think about how embarrassing it would be if you ran out while camping and had absolutely nothing to hand. Go stock up while you have the chance.
2) If you don't feel secure, double up on everything. At night, wear a tampon AND a pad, just in case. Or by some more absorbant tampons.
3) I had this problem when in Siberia for a month, along with all the other girls in the group. After a discussion, we decided to test whether or not pads and tampons burn on a fire. They do. Arrange "burn time" with the other girls on the trip. This is where, after dinner and drying clothes by the fire (I assume if you're camping you will be making fires and such), everyone leaves the fire to go do other things, and whoever needs to put stuff on the fire can do so without embarrassment.
4) The chemicals in pads and tampons are bad for the environment, so it's not a great idea to bury them or put them in a river. Burning them is the best thing, next to bagging them up for a week and taking them home (EW!).
5) You are going with the scouts, so there will be other girls with you. Presumably, you will have a team leader/guide of some kind with you who is female if there are girls in your group. This issue will have to be talked about at some point. You will not be the only person on the trip who has this problem.
Second, about the toilet thing.
1) Everybody does it, that alone should make you feel slightly better. You will have to get over your anxiety eventually if you will be out there for two weeks, so you can either get on with it, or suffer and then get on with it lol. You can't not poo for fourteen days unless you are very VERY ill.
2) You will probably have a designated "toilet area" while you are out there, it's not like you have to find yourself a random bush and go behind it (although that does happen) hoping that nobody walks by. A secluded spot will be agreed on by the team as a whole.
3) TAKE TOILET PAPER WITH YOU, YOU MUPPET! It's biodegradable. Bury it with your business and all will be well.
And finally, about your hair and soap etc.
1) You will need to get an all purpose soap, like this one http://www.millets.co.uk/travel/travel-essentials/product/580324.html This is what people brought with them to Siberia and it works for absolutely everything. Wash your clothes, your hair and your body with it, it's fine. you cannot take supermarket soaps with you and wash in a lake because it is bad for the environment. BIG NO-NO.
2) You will be camping. Eventually, you will all look a mess, so your hair will be the least of your worries. Just brush it as best you can and leave it in a ponytail at the base of your neck, or put it up in a bun. The bun is better because it will keep your hair looking tidy and keep your neck cool.
Have fun and email me if you have any more questions or if I missed anything out.
Ok first off, the period issue.
1) Forget about your awkwardness, go to a shop and buy some pads. Now. If you can't get over your embarrassment, just think about how embarrassing it would be if you ran out while camping and had absolutely nothing to hand. Go stock up while you have the chance.
2) If you don't feel secure, double up on everything. At night, wear a tampon AND a pad, just in case. Or by some more absorbant tampons.
3) I had this problem when in Siberia for a month, along with all the other girls in the group. After a discussion, we decided to test whether or not pads and tampons burn on a fire. They do. Arrange "burn time" with the other girls on the trip. This is where, after dinner and drying clothes by the fire (I assume if you're camping you will be making fires and such), everyone leaves the fire to go do other things, and whoever needs to put stuff on the fire can do so without embarrassment.
4) The chemicals in pads and tampons are bad for the environment, so it's not a great idea to bury them or put them in a river. Burning them is the best thing, next to bagging them up for a week and taking them home (EW!).
5) You are going with the scouts, so there will be other girls with you. Presumably, you will have a team leader/guide of some kind with you who is female if there are girls in your group. This issue will have to be talked about at some point. You will not be the only person on the trip who has this problem.
Second, about the toilet thing.
1) Everybody does it, that alone should make you feel slightly better. You will have to get over your anxiety eventually if you will be out there for two weeks, so you can either get on with it, or suffer and then get on with it lol. You can't not poo for fourteen days unless you are very VERY ill.
2) You will probably have a designated "toilet area" while you are out there, it's not like you have to find yourself a random bush and go behind it (although that does happen) hoping that nobody walks by. A secluded spot will be agreed on by the team as a whole.
3) TAKE TOILET PAPER WITH YOU, YOU MUPPET! It's biodegradable. Bury it with your business and all will be well.
And finally, about your hair and soap etc.
1) You will need to get an all purpose soap, like this one http://www.millets.co.uk/travel/travel-essentials/product/580324.html This is what people brought with them to Siberia and it works for absolutely everything. Wash your clothes, your hair and your body with it, it's fine. you cannot take supermarket soaps with you and wash in a lake because it is bad for the environment. BIG NO-NO.
2) You will be camping. Eventually, you will all look a mess, so your hair will be the least of your worries. Just brush it as best you can and leave it in a ponytail at the base of your neck, or put it up in a bun. The bun is better because it will keep your hair looking tidy and keep your neck cool.
Have fun and email me if you have any more questions or if I missed anything out.
What was life like in concentration camps?
For the Jews, AND the soldiers?
Answer
Men, women, and children are confined without normal judicial trials for an indeterminate period of confinement. Camp authorities usually exercise unlimited, arbitrary power. Although many kinds of facilities have served as concentration camps, they usually consist of barracks, huts, or tents, surrounded by watchtowers and barbed wire. Concentration camps are also known by various other names such as corrective labor camps, relocation centers, and reception centers. During World War II (1939-1945) more than 6 million people died in German concentration camps, but there have been other camps throughout history.
In Germany, the Nazis established concentration camps almost immediately after assuming power on January 30, 1933. A decree in February removed the constitutional protection against arbitrary arrest. The security police had the authority to arrest anyone and to commit that person to a camp for an indefinite period. The political police, known as the Gestapo, imposed âprotective custodyâ on a wide variety of political opponents: Communists, socialists, religious dissenters, Jehovahâs Witnesses, and Jews. The criminal police, known as the Kripo, imposed âpreventive arrestâ on professional criminals and numerous groups of so-called asocials: Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, and prostitutes. The SS (Schutzstaffel, or protective units) operated the camps with brutal military discipline. During the 1930s six major camps were established: Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, and, for women, Ravensbrück. In 1939 these camps held about 25,000 prisoners.
During World War II the camps increased in size and number. Important new ones included Auschwitz-Birkenau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Gross-Rosen, Stutthof, Lublin-Majdanek, Hinzert, Vught, Dora, and Bergen-Belsen. Millions of prisoners entered these camps from every occupied country of Europe: Jews, partisans, Soviet prisoners of war, and impressed foreign laborers. Early in 1942 the SS Central Office for Economy and Administration (Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt, or WVHA) assumed operational control of the concentration camps, and inmates were exploited as forced laborers in industrial production. In addition to the central camps, the WVHA operated hundreds of subsidiary camps, and local offices of the security police in the occupied territories maintained large numbers of forced labor camps. Inmates were worked to death in industries such as the I. G. Farben chemical works and the V-2 rocket factories. Those no longer able to work were killed by gassing, shooting, or fatal injections. Inmates were also used for âmedical experiments.â Early in 1945 the camp population exceeded 700,000.
During World War II the Nazis also established extermination centers to kill entire populations. There the SS systematically gassed millions of Jews and thousands of Roma and Soviet prisoners of war. Two extermination centers operated in concentration camps under the authority of the WVHA: Auschwitz-Birkenau and Lublin-Majdanek. Five operated in camps established by regional SS and police leaders: BeÅżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka in eastern Poland; Kulmhof (Chelmno) in western Poland; and Semlin outside Belgrade, in Serbia. More than 6 million persons, the majority of whom were Jews, perished in the Nazi camps. (Millions of Jews were also exterminated outside the camps.)
During World War II the U.S. Army forced approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, from their primarily West Coast homes to ten concentration camps, many in the interior of the country. The U.S. government referred to these prisonlike camps as relocation centers.
Prisoners of War (POWs), in international law, term used to designate incarcerated members of the armed forces of an enemy, or noncombatants who render them direct service and who have been captured during wartime. Surgeons, chaplains, news correspondents, and hospital attendants of the Red Cross are not included in this category, nor are civilians who are detained and interned in belligerent countries. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries the Red Cross has brought comfort, legal aid, and attention to the plight of interned soldiers.
Prisoners of war, commonly called POWs, have no protection from the law of the nation that captures them and no civil remedy. By the customs, treaties, and conventions of international law, however, prisoners of war are supposed to be granted humane treatment by the enemy.
Men, women, and children are confined without normal judicial trials for an indeterminate period of confinement. Camp authorities usually exercise unlimited, arbitrary power. Although many kinds of facilities have served as concentration camps, they usually consist of barracks, huts, or tents, surrounded by watchtowers and barbed wire. Concentration camps are also known by various other names such as corrective labor camps, relocation centers, and reception centers. During World War II (1939-1945) more than 6 million people died in German concentration camps, but there have been other camps throughout history.
In Germany, the Nazis established concentration camps almost immediately after assuming power on January 30, 1933. A decree in February removed the constitutional protection against arbitrary arrest. The security police had the authority to arrest anyone and to commit that person to a camp for an indefinite period. The political police, known as the Gestapo, imposed âprotective custodyâ on a wide variety of political opponents: Communists, socialists, religious dissenters, Jehovahâs Witnesses, and Jews. The criminal police, known as the Kripo, imposed âpreventive arrestâ on professional criminals and numerous groups of so-called asocials: Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, and prostitutes. The SS (Schutzstaffel, or protective units) operated the camps with brutal military discipline. During the 1930s six major camps were established: Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, and, for women, Ravensbrück. In 1939 these camps held about 25,000 prisoners.
During World War II the camps increased in size and number. Important new ones included Auschwitz-Birkenau, Natzweiler, Neuengamme, Gross-Rosen, Stutthof, Lublin-Majdanek, Hinzert, Vught, Dora, and Bergen-Belsen. Millions of prisoners entered these camps from every occupied country of Europe: Jews, partisans, Soviet prisoners of war, and impressed foreign laborers. Early in 1942 the SS Central Office for Economy and Administration (Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt, or WVHA) assumed operational control of the concentration camps, and inmates were exploited as forced laborers in industrial production. In addition to the central camps, the WVHA operated hundreds of subsidiary camps, and local offices of the security police in the occupied territories maintained large numbers of forced labor camps. Inmates were worked to death in industries such as the I. G. Farben chemical works and the V-2 rocket factories. Those no longer able to work were killed by gassing, shooting, or fatal injections. Inmates were also used for âmedical experiments.â Early in 1945 the camp population exceeded 700,000.
During World War II the Nazis also established extermination centers to kill entire populations. There the SS systematically gassed millions of Jews and thousands of Roma and Soviet prisoners of war. Two extermination centers operated in concentration camps under the authority of the WVHA: Auschwitz-Birkenau and Lublin-Majdanek. Five operated in camps established by regional SS and police leaders: BeÅżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka in eastern Poland; Kulmhof (Chelmno) in western Poland; and Semlin outside Belgrade, in Serbia. More than 6 million persons, the majority of whom were Jews, perished in the Nazi camps. (Millions of Jews were also exterminated outside the camps.)
During World War II the U.S. Army forced approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, from their primarily West Coast homes to ten concentration camps, many in the interior of the country. The U.S. government referred to these prisonlike camps as relocation centers.
Prisoners of War (POWs), in international law, term used to designate incarcerated members of the armed forces of an enemy, or noncombatants who render them direct service and who have been captured during wartime. Surgeons, chaplains, news correspondents, and hospital attendants of the Red Cross are not included in this category, nor are civilians who are detained and interned in belligerent countries. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries the Red Cross has brought comfort, legal aid, and attention to the plight of interned soldiers.
Prisoners of war, commonly called POWs, have no protection from the law of the nation that captures them and no civil remedy. By the customs, treaties, and conventions of international law, however, prisoners of war are supposed to be granted humane treatment by the enemy.
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