First Day of Camp

Is it possible to feel chilly in Spain? After waking up to beautiful weather on the first day of camp wee headed to Café Futbol for breakfast. After splitting up and catching our respective buses we were off. Everyone was feeling anxious in their own way but excited as well.

The adolescence camp went great. We only had 10 kids but we are trusting that either God is going to send more kids or that these 10 kids are the group he has for us to teach. There were a lot of new faces but three kids that were present last year, were here today. Everyone was excited to learn English, which was encouraging. Emily and Jim L. did a wonderfully hilarious job as Chicken and Moose, our camp’s mascots. The kids were split into two groups and chose team names: the Red Monkeys and the Blue Panthers. The Red Monkeys (my team!) won today’s challenge of ice cream making. They also won the ultimate Frisbee game, which as chaotic, but pretty amusing. Today was very encouraging and a lot of fun. We are all excited for tomorrow! Please pray that we will be energetic and excited and that the counselors will learn how to work together. Thanks!

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Julia and Chris, kid’s camp counselors, is going to talk about how kid’s camp went!

HEY EVERYONE!

The kid’s camp today went great! We had a rough start with only 13 kids showing up, but we are hopeful for 10 more kids tomorrow. We were able to give the few kids we had a lot of attention. Unfortunately, we only had enough kids for 3 classrooms, but tomorrow, God willing, all 5 classrooms will be filled with children.

The day started off when Jamie and Kelly entered in full cheerleading apparel and cheered the kids on, getting them excited for the camp and learning English. After that, Jesse came and taught them a song about the camp with Jim McKernan and John Gullet played guitar. The song was great! Jim, Jesse, and John wrote a parody of ‘Pharaoh, Pharaoh’, singing “English is Fun!” Then the kids went to their classrooms and the counselors taught them English. Mr. Gullett and I, Julia, had 3 adorable girls in our group and they were super excited and attentive! Laura and Laurel Joined our classroom with a girl named Rachel who is blind. Rachel’s English is very good and she is far more advanced then the other girls in our classroom. She was always the first to raise her hand with the answer. Our Lesson went really well and I’m pretty sure the girls understood us very well and had a good time.

After the lesson we had Art class and Gym class. In Art Class they made friendship bracelets with Sue Lauer. In Gym Class Stefan taught the kids soccer and basketball vocabulary while playing games! The whole day was a blast and we can’t wait for tomorrow!