OK. I know you have all been eagerly awaiting the results of the poll to choose the name of this year's campamento. Wait no more because the overwhelming choice was ... C2017. Well, that is the choice I wanted anyways and since no one else voted I'm going with it...
C2017 starts in four days and we're all heading down the day after tomorrow. Here's a pic of my state of readiness:
Not too bad. Just a trip to CVS and the bank and I'm ready to go. Not sure I can say the same for the kids. Anyways, we have some changes planned out for the camp this year. We really wanted to get the teen leaders more involved and to get the students more invested in the talleres(workshops). So I had this idea that we should change the structure from classroom based to taller based. We could do this by having a short "home room" at the beginning of the day and then have three periods of talleres instead of just one. Kelli, Tanya, and I worked out a schedule in which we would divide the campers into six groups that would rotate between art, science, and board games/deportes with the teen leaders in charge. Here is what the schedule looks like:
It all makes sense in my super organized, gringo teacher mind. I'm just worried that it doesn't mesh with the "take things how they come and improvise" Dominican pedagogy. I'll keep you posted.