Copiapo - English Summer Camp

Brian -
We arrived in Copiapo on Saturday with Gia, and English teacher from Santiago. She will  be the monitor for the summer camp. Copiapo is very small and we are able to walk just about anywhere we want to go. We have been walking around and exploring the town. There are several old Cathedrals and most of the buildings are made of clay and straw. However you cannot tell from the outside that the buildings are made of clay and straw, they look like they are made of concrete. There is a big off-road car race going on near Copiapo so there are a lot of people from different countries in our hotel.

We had a fun but exhausting day today (Monday). We left for the camp at 8:30am and got the camp ready for the kids. There are four volunteers, Lindsay, Luis, Sandra and me, and 1 monitor, Gia, and the camp supervisor, Gabriel. Luis, Gia and Sandra are all Chilean English Teachers and speak English fairly well. They kids are very excited and range from 14-17 years old. There are about 20-25 girls and 4 boys. We played a few games as icebreakers then divided them up into 4 groups and did various activities with them. We made a name for our group and had them come up with a song and dance for their group as well as a poster. All in English. It is hard to get them to speak English all the time but they like to learn about where Lindsay and I are from and what we like to do. Overall it has been a lot of fun but very tiring. Tomorrow we are taking them to a pool/water park. We are going to let them play in the pool and then have the to a scavenger hunt with all the directions in English. It should be a lot of fun.

I hope everyone is doing well I will try to post again in a couple of days.

P.S. I am going to try and convince Lindsay to post as well. We will be putting our names at the top of the post so that you know who is writing.