Summer Camp Review

Brian-
The summer camp was awesome. We had about 30 kids about 4 boys and 26 girls. The camp was from 9:30am to 5:30pm. Here is a break down of what we did for the week. I have already discussed Monday so I will be skipping that day. Each day we would do a bunch of activities like scattergories, pictionary and the like to help the kids with their English as well as break the ice.

Tuesday:
Took the kids to this water park. It was rather unique in that it was also a zoo. When we arrived there were sheep and peacocks wandering around. They also had ostriches, parrots and a couple of types of deer. Anyway the kids loved the water slides and the pool and it helped us all bond.

Wednesday:
A bit of a recovery day from the previous day's activities. We played scattergories and a guess who type game. We also gave the kids some artwork and had them interpret them in English and then create their own artwork. It was obvious that the kids were a lot more open and receptive than they were before we took them to the pool because they all worked really well together and created some pretty amazing stuff.

Thursday:
Today we played pictionary and had the kids create a brochure about an English speaking country. The kids were very creative and searched out English speaking countries that I had never heard of like Seychelles, and Tuvalu. We also made a sort scavenger hunt/ adventure race were the kids had to run around and find different marked locations where they would have to perform tasks in English. The kids had a lot of fun and they go pretty competitive. We later took them to the center square and had them present their artwork to people walking by. Overall I thought it was a really productive day.

Friday:
We went to the beach in Caldera. The first beach we went to had a lot of seaweed and jellyfish. We played around at that beach for awhile and went to Baia Inglesia. This beach was beautiful with really clear water. It was really cold however, a little colder than beaches in Southern California. Overall it was great and Caldera is a very cute little town.

Saturday:
We had a talent show for the kids. All the kids participated as well as the volunteers. The volunteers did a dance to start the talent show and made fools of our selves but it was fun. Then Lindsay danced to Grease with some of the kids. The kids were all very sad for the camp to end and made Lindsay and I write down our names so they could look us up on Facebook.

The camp was awesome and I really liked Copiapo. It is very quiet and small but is large enough that it has everything. The beach is only an hour bus ride away and costs about 5 dollars.

I hope everyone is doing well. We will be in Santiago for the next 3 weeks taking Spanish classes so I will try to post again in about a half a week.