July 13, 2008

I got to use my Spanish this morning to help a camper from Spain and one from Ireland this morning play Battleship together which I really enjoyed. After cottage clean up we took the campers to play on the play ground. Instead of activity area rotations today the campers had “Special day” where they made bandanas and a banner for the cottage. Our group then went by the lake and the campers participated in an organized activity of trying to put a fire out. The catch was they could use a cup to get water out of a canoe, then play rock, paper, scissor against one of us Caras, if they won they could pass through and try to throw their cup of water on a fire where other Caras were trying to guard it with their bodies and meal trays to block. The campers then got to play a game of capture the flag. After cottage time each cottage went as a group to the lake where they “built a boat” out of inflatable tubes and random objects. The goal was for the Caras to make it across the lake on these to retrieve the golden ship. Once it was retrieved there was a giant party where campers could play soccer, croquet, giant jenga and connect four, volleyball, card games, etc.

For cottage night we played soccer, games, and I taught some of the Spanish kids English. I then started a fire in the fire place in the cottage and all the campers came in for smores.