Easter Camp

For the last two weeks I have at my spring vacation. Sadly I did not get to rest up and sleep until 10 everyday, on the other hand I was able to travel a lot and meet many amazing people. In the first week I went to a Easter camp with my host sister Anna. At first I was sceptical to go, because I have never been religious, and know next to nothing about the bible. I was worried that if they found out that I wasn't 'properly educated' they would judge me. However, the adult leaders were all very kind, they didn't care who you were, as long as you would work hard and help out. I also thought I would be bored out of my mind reading from the bible every day, but I actually found it quite interesting. We read the story of Josef, a young man sold into slavery by his brothers, and though I do not agree completely with the morals of the story, I enjoyed learning about the Protestant faith. After all of my learning, I know I will stick to my beliefs, yet I always enjoy learning and understanding the other religions. I went to the camp as a semi-councilor. I helped with the games and activities, played with the kids, and always tried to stay sunny side up. If you know me, you know that I love to play games and that I work well with young children. This made it very easy to fit in, American or not. Throughout the week we played games, went on hikes, and shared smiles. I list some of my favorite games/activities:

Americanish Sitzball (American sit ball): although this game is not actually American, it is very fun. Everyone is on a field and one person has a rubber ball. They try to throw it at other people. If you are hit and do not catch the ball, you must sit and wait for whomever tagged you to also be hit. Once they are hit you can play again. If you catch the ball, than you can just keep playing. It turns out that I am good at catching, however have very poor aim. I was mostly siting and not playing. 

Forest tag: we played this at night. Once it was dark we took all of the kids into the forest. Earlier that day we had hung up pieces of paper throughout the forest. The kids were put in teams and tried to run around and mark as many papers as possible with a marker (each team had a different color so that we could tell them apart). While they were doing that, the teens would sneak around and try to tag them, this would give them a minus point. It was quite fun.

Hike: we took a small hike, it was pretty

Letters: we had a cork board at camp. On it we could write letter to the kids and tack them up. Than they would write back, etc. At one point I had about 20 letters waiting for me. It felt really nice to hear all of the nice things the kids had to say. I saved some of the letters to bring home.

Swimming: at one point we went swimming in the mountain water. It was freezing and I felt like a popsicle as soon as I stepped out.

The camp had a lot more than this from fake olympics, to amazing food, to songs, and everything in-between. But it would take to long to write that all down. So I'll just say that It was amazing and that I am so thankful that I was able to go!!!