Saturday, July 29, 2017

Great moments

Week two… The highs of he week…. -Every year the counselors seem to get it more and more…love it! Planting seeds! -We hired two young adults to teach the boys how to play soccer. They were taking laps in their pinnies today and completing drills. -Mrs. Ryna invented a game and its called, “Passe kouchan.” (Pass the Pig) The game…we put a bunch on glitter on the pig and have the children pass it like a hot potato. The glitter is supposed to represent “germs” and the children are supposed to see how the germs pass. When the music stops, the child holding the pig has to come up and show the group how to wash his/her hands. …hahaah, sounds even funnier writing about the game! The kids LOVE it, like LOVE IT! -Watching Caitlin with her art group. She has five students come every day and she teaches them techniques to become better artist. -Miss. Megan started violin lessons today…LOVE IT! -Hearing the laugher today as the children played “Sourit and chat,” with the big parachute. (Cat and mouse) Their giggles are priceless and make it worth it. -Watching out staff FLOW! They know each other strengths and balance each other. Each staff has come to know his/her gifts and volunteers for the game/activity he/she knows they have learned! It is AWESOME!!!! IT Flows!!! -We hired two young adults to play soccer with the 6-9 year olds. I walked by today to check it out and they had them circled up and were teaching them how to head the ball! AWESOME! -The relationships…been a sweetness to see the relationships grow up and continue to take root! -We added baking as an afternoon workshop and it has been functioning so smoothly. Yesterday they taught the children to make donuts, Tuesday they made a bread croissant. It is fun to watch them work with the children. They write the recipe on the board and they throw down. They knead the dough on a rock, put together the ingredients on a dirty table, and cook it over charcoal! It is awesome and it taste amazing!!! So neat to watch the team grow and things come together. When the pastor told me they could “bake” without an oven I looked at him like I saw an alien. He told me it was possible and sure enough he was right.

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