This year was a perfect mix of everything awesome and everything terrible. We had a lot of new students, probably more than ever before. But the camp as a whole felt like a family, and even after camp we've been spending a lot of time together. We really, honestly (mostly) enjoy being together!
The only negative to the camp was how many injuries and hospital visits we had. One American has to have surgery because she had stomach ulcers, and another American guy was hospitalized because of a concussion. On top of that, we had about 15 bee stings (thankfully no major allergies), another concussion, a broken pinky, and lots of fainting. There were hospital visits every day, and an emergency phone call in the middle of the night. I was never so glad to leave camp because of all the medical stuff!
The only negative to the camp was how many injuries and hospital visits we had. One American has to have surgery because she had stomach ulcers, and another American guy was hospitalized because of a concussion. On top of that, we had about 15 bee stings (thankfully no major allergies), another concussion, a broken pinky, and lots of fainting. There were hospital visits every day, and an emergency phone call in the middle of the night. I was never so glad to leave camp because of all the medical stuff!
I got to organize a Survivor/Amazing Race activity that was totally my cup of tea. The point of this activity was to bring classes together quicker: each English class meets together in the evening to discuss the spiritual talk we just heard. It usually takes about 3 days before students will go deeper and feel more open, so we wanted to speed up the process. I think we accomplished it through a variety of silly, fun, and sometimes frustrating activities.
I brought a bunch of Salvation Army dresses from the States, and each class had to wear the dress one-by-one and go find a puzzle piece. Here's a little clip of what that looked like:
Then each team had to take their puzzle pieces and go put a puzzle together. When they were done, they had 10 different stations to complete however they wanted. Such as...
the whole class tying their legs together, walking down to the woods, and finding 6 natural things of different colors.
knocking over cans with a ball (which took way longer than we expected)
a food challenge! Bleu cheese, strawberry chocolate, onions, tuna, liver pate, milk, ketchup, mustard, and barbecue sauce blended together
The Americans on each team also had to learn the words to a Czech children's song, which had to be approved by a Czech judge. The last challenge, and my favorite, was that each team had to build a fire, put on the dresses, and dance around it singing the children's song.
a video of that here:
And a few more pictures of some fun!
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| Hike Day Geocachers |
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| Enjoying kofola at some old ruins in Czech with Terka |
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| cooking workshop: chocolate covered peanut butter eggs |
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| Photo booth |
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