First Two Days of Camp
27 Jun
Yesterday the kids arrived just after 11am, with a boatload of enthusiam and even bigger smiles! We split them into teams (red, green, blue, and yellow), then held our first chaple time. All of the campers participated in singing (which drowned out our out-of-tune, mispronounced Spanish!) and loved the skit our kids put on. Next, came lunch, then four rotations of activities (science, sports, health, and arts and crafts) before we all headed down to the beach for some swimming.
The lack of breeze left swarms of no-see-ums hovering over the water, and lots of fish jumping out of the water to eat the little bugs, but the kids didn’t mind at all! They swam and splashed and swam some more… pretty much right up until dinner time. After dinner, we played a few group games, then watched “Horton Hears a Who” on the projector. For the kids, the best part was the popcorn we served along with the movie!
After the movie, the kids were asking to go to sleep, so off to bed we all went! It was a tiring day, but one also filled with plenty of laughs (even if most of those laughs were from the campers, as they laughed at our attempts to speak Spanish).
Today (Saturday), went even more smoothly, as we had learned a few tricks on Friday and were able to tweak our schedule a bit to accomodate the needs of our specific group. For example, our campers are quite a bit younger than those of past camps (ours are 6-8). This means they get tired sooner, and lose interest in certain activities more quickly. Never fear! As Clark keeps reminding us, every “problem” is just an opportunity!
Some highlights so far… listening to the campers sing a song we taught them – on their free time, throwing them countless times in the waves (after the wind picked up this morning), watching them attempt to play a Chop Point favorite - Glow-timate Frisbee, trying fried cheese (wait, that was one of my lows, not highs 
), and being so so proud of the youth of our team as they friend, lead, and care for the campers.
It’s time to get some much needed rest now. We will say good-bye to the campers tomorrow afternoon, and I will try to post again then. In the meantime, we appreciate your prayers that the wind would return, that we would be refreshed by this evening’s sleep, and that the campers would leave Campo Alegria feeling God’s love through us.
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