Come Together

This whole first week of camp as been such a blast. We are in this new location and we all had to adapt, and at first I thought it was going to be a little hard for all of the kids who have been coming to camp for years or are from other countries. But alas it has been a great week! We have kids from all over the world who come here, so it is so important to all of us counselors to make sure they have a wonderful and memorable summer. We have a large group from Spain and sometimes I forget that these are just kids and they are away from their homes, out of their comfort zones, and speaking their second language. Not to mention they usually stay for 4 weeks! I loved seeing this week how these international kids from brake barriers by making friends with the locals. A majority of the teen girl cabin are from Spain while the little girls in my cabin are not and it was so great to see them helping out these girls get ready for the day, or paint their nails, or dress them up for the dance and helping them at activities. I also saw it happening with all of the boy campers as well. It's just nice to see them learning about these other cultures and accepting the differences, and practicing other languages... I have a camper named Nicki, she is nine and speaks fluent Spanish, she was chatting away with one of the teens from Spain which I think is just so cool to see...and good practice! These kids are all so smart! So it has been an awesome few days of all of these kids coming together and braving the scariness of being away from home and tonight at closing camp fire I'll be so sad knowing some of them leave Sunday, but so glad they will have SO many fun memories from just a short week at Camp.

Cheers,
Spano