First
of all I have to say that I am really excited about this English camp. It was
amazing and i am so glad I could be there. In the beginning I was a bit scared.
It was English camp where i had to speak English for all seven days and be
there with lot of new people. Normally I am afraid of speaking in English. Even
with my Czech friends who speak English! And I am not that type of person who
is used to be with 40 people. But if I didn´t go there, I would miss a lot.
The
whole camp schedule was like this: In the morning after the beginning ofthe program (and dancing camp dance) - we
had an english lesson, then iniciatives and after them was a lunch. After the
lunch we had a break (I was really happy, because I know camps where we were
doing a lot of things and did not have any break. This breaks really helped me)
After the break had outdoor games and then crafts, dinner and evening program.
After the evening program we had an e-night.
First
night we were divided into eight groups for our english classes and evening
discussions. I was assigned to the black team where Brad was leader and we began
with discussion. That evening we talked about names and about story of Simon
and his renaming to Peter.
Second
day in the morning we started with english classes. In the beginning I was
really afraid of them. I imagined us sitting around the table and someone
trying to teach us the different tenses and difficult words or something.
But
I have to say that Brad is good teacher.
he made this lessons interesting and funny. During the first lesson we learned
something about pronunciation. For example how to pronounce the hard word like:
thief. We were sitting in the circle and
saying: „thief, thief, thief“ until we made it. Finally we made a group banner
and named us the „Black thives“.
In
one another lesson we played game in wich we learned how does it looked like
when you go to the restaurant in Amerika. I would like to order everything from
the menu, because the waiter was so insistent. It was interesting to see the
differences between Slovak and American waiters.
The
next day we talked about movies. Brad played for us some trailers and we were
talking about them. We even played the drama from movies. Me and Marek, we
played Twilight like western. We played Bella and Jakob and…well, it was
interesting to watch how he was aiming a gun to me.
I
will never forget Brad´s motivation: „If you will speak, you will have a
candyy..“ I´m glad that I am not the
only one, who uses this method in the kindergarden. The candies are always a
good motivation.
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| All day activity |
After
the english lessons were iniciatives. We played a lot of different games in which
we should learn something and then we talked about it. The craziest one for me was probably the last
day iniciative. In this iniciative there were one blind, one deaf, and one mute
person. The rest of the team were obstacles. The person who saw whole track and
deaf person should navigate the blind person by pantomime. I wanted to try to
be blind. It looked really interesting, but after that experience i dont want
to be blind anymore. Imagine that you are standing with bandana on your eyes
and waiting when some´s voice start to navigate you. Meanwhile you hear some
other voices shout: „To the right, to the left, jump..jump!“ And sometimes you
don´t hear your own voice. Then you have to stay and wait. It was really
confusing. But I am really glad I could try it.
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| Crafts |
After
the one hour break we had activities. It was two hour outdoor games – mostly
running games. After the activities there were crafts or american sports. In
crafts we did origami and really awesome and colorful bracelets. I tried to
play baseball too. And I even stroke the ball for the first time in one game :-).
After
the diner there was the evening program, where we dance a camp dance. I really
love camp dance! Then the band played and every evening we had short talks and
discussion.
After
the evening program was e-night – each has a different theme like Hipster, Wild
West, the Great Gatsby, Army and Labyrint. Labyrint was very interesting for me
– I realize a lot of important things for me in it.
It was really blessed week for me! :-)
It was really blessed week for me! :-)






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