Hi all,
Well, it's been a couple of years since my last entry. My intentions were to continue the blog once the camp ended 2 years ago, but, well you know. But, now we're back and getting ready for Campamento Las Margaritas Season Two. Some of the characters will be the same -- basically the gringo ones, but we will be welcoming a whole new group of campers. Hopefully, we'll get about 25 to 30 youts (to quote Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny) to participate this year, thus doubling our enrollment from two years ago (you know I can't help throwing in math whenever I can right?).
Anyways, preparations for this summer's version are well under way. Yasi and Oscar helped to send down many boxes filled with the supplies we need. Doña Yolanda and Carmen have made arrangements with the principal of the school so that we can use the same space (though I hear the school has undergone many renovations and I can't wait to see how the plants look that we planted two years ago, but I digress). And they are also busily recruiting campers.
From our end, we have received the support of many people and organizations. The Brookline Public Schools donated about 200 bilingual books that we'll be able to use and then donate to the school and the campers. Samuel and Nellie have been working with graphic designers who have created a logo for the school and will be donating t-shirts for all the campers - I'll forward along their information soon. And Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Paris have made a generous cash donation that we'll use for supplies and food and then a big project that we'll undertake to help out the school and the community. If that sounds vague, it's because we haven't decided on a project yet and won't until we get down there in a couple of weeks to check out the scene.
That's all for now I guess. This will hopefully be much more interesting once we get the camp up and running.