I am going to start off apologizing to the parents who check my blog daily to hear that all is well!  All is well but extremely busy!  Anna and I are running camp in 4 villages with 2 separate age groups in each village.  We have just under 200 kids.  The first couple of weeks have been very successful! Anna and I create activities around the theme of the week.  The first week our theme was dinosaurs.  The kids made dino head bands, built villages with blocks for the toy dinosaurs, read dinosaur books, and played a dinosaur game.  We put sand in a big bucket along with cut up dinosaur pictures.  The kids had to dig for their color dinosaur, find all the pieces, and put the puzzle together.  They loved it.  We did all of this as well as play with the parachute, sing songs, and of course dance.

Here are a few photos of all of that from different villages.

For the past 2 weeks our theme has been the ocean.  The kids made paper plate fish, used ocean stamps, played a fish memory game, and had a blast with some water relay races.  The camp in La Sabana is held in what used to be a little block house.  We let the kids in that camp draw all over the walls inside and out with chalk.  We have some giant fish, sea horses, and star fish all over the walls.  The kids thought it was hilarious we were letting them draw on the walls. 

As far as groups and the construction goes,  the 2 Bermuda groups completed one house and almost finished the second house in a village called El Canal.  The Jersey group started 3 houses in El Estrecho Abajo.  Most of the group had been here before so they flew through the construction.  We just had a group from Goshen, CT.  They finished 2 of the houses in El Estrecho Abajo.  I’ll have to run around and grab some photos of the houses with the families to post on here next time.   We had a group fly in late last night from Ohio.  They are going to be fixing up my little school house in La Sabana.  Come September that is going to be where I bring my class to.  I can’t wait to have one central location to be teaching out of. 

Having the staff and all of the groups here has been fantastic!  I have been trying to spend as much time as my schedule allows with the groups (which unfortunately sometimes isn’t as much as I’d like).  As many things are down here, it is a blessing and a curse for me.  I love having the company and meeting and visiting lots of new people, but it is also hard to then see them go.  To those who have come and gone, I am looking forward to seeing you again next year!  To those who haven’t been down here yet, what are you waiting for?!?!? J

Well that is all for now.  Buhbye!