DAY 2
WOW, I did not bring the right things to sleep on, my back, hips, shoulders and neck are so so so sore. Any ways the cap councilors got up at 6am to get showered and organized for the girls. At 6:30am the girls where to get up brush their teeth, and change for yoga. It was my first yoga class along with a lot of the other girls. Ohhhhh man did they not want to get up or do yoga. But we got them all out their on the field. I loved it it made my back feel so good and the rest of my body. When that was done at 8am we got the girls changed and off to breakfast, we had fish cakes, bakes and juice. The day was about to get more intense. Part of Camp GLOW is that we have specific sessions set up for the girls with guest speakers. The first one was about body image and shadeism. In Grenada some people believe that the darker you are the lower class you are, and people started bleaching their skin. The girls talked a lot about how they felt about that. Then they where given pictures of black woman and they where asked to create a made up store about the women based on their appearance. That was very interesting. This is a picture of the girls telling the stories they came up with as a group.
The next thing we did was watched a movie called Music By Prudence. Oh my god it was such an amazing empowering sad movie, so many of the girls cried. The reason we watched this movie was to ope the eyes of the girls about people with disabilities. We where so honored to have a few of the girls around the island that have disability, both physical and cognitive. Any ways the movie is about a woman in Africa that starts a bad of all disabled people in her community. Its a hardship because people think that she is worthless and she fights to prove them other wise, I have provided a link at the bottom of this post I REALY encourage you to look at it!!!! We then moved onto a grate presentation from Alli another peace corps volunteer. She did helpful and hurtful. This went over how to use body language, tone of voice, words and much more to communicate with people. It was a grate thing to end the day with. We moved on to dinners and showers. I will tell you that it is incredibly hard to get girls from all walks of life to like each other, work together and follow interactions. We had a few girls break down, want to go home, or just had not broken out of their shells yet. Stressful let me tell you to have little sleep, be sore and have to deal with teenage girls. My group the Originators was made up of three staff and five girls. They didn't want to follow instructions, stay together or listen to anyone. But we did end up going to bed around ten even though, light are out at nice. Then I had a staff reflection meeting that went till about 11. Wow that was a long day!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXr8pg59GE
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