Camp is crazy - I love it! about 180 kids running around a church building.
This week, my role at the camp is the English station. I have never really taught kids before but I am really enjoying it. And it feels good when they all say they want to hang out with me and like 30 kids come to give me a massive hug at the same time - or how I have about 20 different secret handshakes with so many of them haha
The day starts off with all the counselors meeting at church at 9a where we spend time doing a devotional (which reminds me I should be giving mine soon...), praying, and talking about the days tasks. Then at 10a kids arrive and camp starts. The first couple of hours they are split into bible lesson class, music, games, etc,.. During that time I am seething up my class downstairs. My class starts at 12:45p. After that I am pretty much teaching English till about 3:30 to different groups.
I was nervous and excited but I survived - thought I did pretty good for never teaching kids lol - and according to the team leaders, the kids ask for my class since the moment they arrive in the morning so that makes me feel good haha.
When the first day of camp was over the couselors played volleyball for a couple of hours. It doesn't get dark here until about 10p - crazy - so the days are really long.
Today, for the second day of camp I felt more comfortable and confident. Once again enjoyed teaching them basic English like the days of the week, numbers, phrases. We are actually working on a project in my English class where we are making a scrapbook of a 'pretend' trip my class is taking to the U.S.A. It's fun.
Two pretty cool things happened to me today. First was...well, there is this prayer room we have upstairs and all the couselors are to sign up to spend 15 mins of their day in that prayer room. I signed up to pray at 2p. It's during my lunch. I try not to eat much at camp because we already get fed mountains and mountains of food at mama Luba's house. In my 15 mins of seeking God and just praying for the camp, and the kids, my family and all...I felt such a strong presence just come over me. It was heavy. I actually didn't want to leave that room. My 15 mins felt like an hour. It was such a great feeling. I prayed for a lot of things. The one thing I felt the strongest was such peace. I left the room feeling new. Back to the craziness of teaching and chasing kids around. Or in this case...being chased by them.
The second thing, and this is random, is that i got to play guitar and sing in Russian today in front of all the kids haha we do a skit for the kids everyday at the end of the day and for today's skit I had to pretend I was in love with a girl and played guitar and sang the chorus of a song in Russian. Which I literally learned 5 mins before that. The kids seemed to love it they all cheered lol that was fun!
Day 3 tomorrow.
Had no time for pictures. Will try and take some tomorrow
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