Last Day of Camp

Well, Camp 2016 is in the books. I things ill continúe with the photo jornal style that I started yesterday. Ok?

The day started off with some of the kids making French toast and scrambled eggs for breakfast for the whole bunch of us. 40 eggs and 50 pieces of French toast later and I think maybe they learned how much work it takes Doña Yolanda to feed all of us.

We ended the camp with a presentation to the parents. Here's Tanya welcoming all the parents and reminding the kids that they should help their parents at home.

Here's some of the campers showing what they learned  in the dance workshop.

 We also had the music workshop perform the song they learned.

 A group of boys came into Tanya's room about an hour before the presentation to tell Tanya that they wanted to do an artistic performance at the ceremony because it was a tradition that they do so. Wow! We have traditions now. Really though, a lot of things like this happened today showing how much our little camp means to these kids. Many campers were very sad that the camp was coming to an end.

We spent a lot of time at camp doing experiments and activities focused on wind power. Here we had a paper blowing competition between margarita 3 and margarita 4. The object was to blow the paper from one end of the desks to the other without it falling of the sides. Profe Lilly claims that her margarita 4 won and that she has the video evidence to prove it. We'll see about that (In case you couldn't tell my class was margarita 3). Videos can be faked after all.

Here's Ashley giving out the certificates to her students.

And here we are going home for the final time this year. Lots of emotions coming through right now. I'll have to sort them out as I reflect on this amazing two week experience. I'll get back to you as I go through that debriefing process. 

Oh and one more photo:

In the middle of sports today this dump truck drove through the basketball court and dumped a load of gravel onto the pavement. My initial concern that the camp was going to be too scripted this year and lose some of its spontaneous authenticity clearly was unfounded.