Stream of Contentedness with Lewis Garnham
Oct 21, 2026 · 44 min · 11 segments
I speak about getting older, feeling more assured and less naive than I used to, working at a Summer Camp in America, living in Greece and the Stanford Prison Experiment. Subscribe to the Patreon to…
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For three months, I worked at a massive, You know in America how they have these summer camps where all the kids go to? Like the classic American summer camp.
I'd had people in my life who had done this thing where they'd, in their gap year after high school or whatever, gone to America and worked at a summer camp.
Usually there'll be a lake and you do like activities with the kids during the day.
And then all the, this is the part that's really appealing about it, is that all the staff come from different parts of the world to work.
It's like a work away thing, right? So you're in this environment with all these other people, you know, 18 to sort of 28 year olds from fucking everywhere, from all different parts of the globe.
And you meet them and you become friends, you form connections, bonds, and then you can travel with those people afterwards.
And that was the part that really excited me was the putting myself in a situation where I had to meet lots of different people, hopefully become friends with people.
I remember like, yeah, my last couple of years of high school and the first sort of part of the year after high school.
I was working at a supermarket, saving up this money, bought these flights to America.
For three months, I worked at a massive, You know in America how they have these summer camps where all the kids go to? Like the classic American summer camp.
I'd had people in my life who had done this thing where they'd, in their gap year after high school or whatever, gone to America and worked at a summer camp.
Usually there'll be a lake and you do like activities with the kids during the day.
And then all the, this is the part that's really appealing about it, is that all the staff come from different parts of the world to work.
It's like a work away thing, right? So you're in this environment with all these other people, you know, 18 to sort of 28 year olds from fucking everywhere, from all different parts of the globe.
And you meet them and you become friends, you form connections, bonds, and then you can travel with those people afterwards.
And that was the part that really excited me was the putting myself in a situation where I had to meet lots of different people, hopefully become friends with people.
I remember like, yeah, my last couple of years of high school and the first sort of part of the year after high school.
I was working at a supermarket, saving up this money, bought these flights to America.
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