Camp Glow 2014

Tie Dyeing

  

This will have been my second year being a concealer at camp GLOW! This year was way better than last year although I am still not a camp person! This year we had real beds and the councilors slept in their own rooms away from the campers! So I got much much more sleep so I was in a much better mood every day! The campers we're still watched every night by the staff that we had assigned to them! 

Each day we had something different things for the girls to do! It was planed out for a mixture of fun and education. We had an HIV/AIDS day, a condemn race, a fashion show on how to dress and not dress for interviews, body image, yoga, hiking, beach day, tie dieing and so much more. The girls loved it!

Condem Race 

This year I got a lot closer to my campers, and learned their stories. Its very hard sometimes to here how their personal life is outside of camp. Some of them are starved, left alone, abused, raped and the list goes on. Its interesting because when they first come to camp they want to run back home to what they are used to. When the realize that they are in a safe place, healthy space, making friends, and realizing that we are their for them they grow so attached to us and the people around them. 

Last year we had I think five men counselors and that shows that girls that not every man is going to harass them. It also shows them what a healthy friendship between a man and a woman is like. This year we only had two men at camp but the girls loved them just the same. 

Yoga

I think one of my favorite moments was when we had a bonfire on the beach and made smores, laying in the sand watching for shooting stars and listening to the girls laugh and talk. 

It was a good year, and i think it will be interesting watching the last years campers who were selected to become JR. counselors. its a grate opportunity for them to grow as young leaders and provide support for campers next year.  

Cake decorating 

Marti Expeditions Murals

Marti Expeditions is a group from Trinidad that goes around to different countries and does community service. One of the other Peace Corps Volunteers found out that Marti Expeditions was going to be doing some murals at the special ED schools in Grenada and passed along their information. I was to exited to leave my mark on Grenada finally in a visual way. So I got together with the group of teens for dinner so that I could meet everyone and we could start working on are design for the murals. We came up with two really cool ideas one was a market seen that were going to turn into Ispy with local objects for example A for Apple. The second idea was a map of the hole Caribbean and each country was going to have soothing that represented it such as the national colors, fruits, animals.

When it was time to paint at the first special ed school in Victoria the principle explained to us that the kids at that school are not that advanced and they would prefer something more usable for the teachers lessons. This made perfect sense and I felt bad because I work at a special ed school and my kids would probably not have benefited from are first ideas but I though that the kids at the Victoria special ed school were more advanced. Any ways on short notice we changed the wall into sections of usable things for the teachers to use. One of the sections was days of the week with a symbols for the first letter so they could make the connection, for example Wednesday wave! We also had a numbers section with the word, and a symbol for the amount so the number 5 FIVE ***** so they could have something to reference to. One of the other sections was a clock and symbols all around it shapes, and such, the last wall was a rain forest with a monkey hanging from bamboo and hidden animals! It was a grate day and the kids got to work with some of the boys from the Father Moligun home. The same boys that I did camp Tufton with. They also got to see some of Grenada's carnival people who passed so that was fun.

I was not involved with everything that Marti expedition did but they did amazing things, they cleaned up one of the beaches, did some sight seeing and also worked at some of the schools I think. I was at camp GLOW.

The last thing that I did with Marti expeditions was paint another mural inside of the Child Protective services, we went with a rainforest that covered the hole wall and animals were hidden threw out the hole thing. It made the hole room so much brighter and friendlier as well. I had a grate time with all of the kids and the staff I am so happy that I got to be apart of Marti Expeditions trip to Grenada and I am so happy that I could provide support, paint brushes, stencils and friendship.

   

Camp Tufton 2014

     

 


camp tufton

Camp tufton is an all boys camp for the boys at the Father Moligun home in Victoria. Some of the people from my group went to the camp last year as camp councilor! I had herd some good things and some bad things about the camp and I was nervous to do the camp!

On the first day of camp we went on a hike, not just any hike a terrible long four hours up a 90 degree angel with rain falling making mud so your feel barely griped the ground! On the way aback down another 3 hours I spent slipping and sliding on my butt. I was having a terrible time, and I was non use to the boys at all!

On the second day it was a seven mile hike up the back roads of Victoria to Gwave. It was better because the roads where concrete and it was nice and cool out, the hole time we hiked the boys picked the wild fruits mangos, wax apples and skin ups, they had a grate time and at the end of the day we took them to a hidden pond to thy could swim and jump off if rocks.

On the third day I did not go on the hike because it was going to be like the first day so I found myself at home stenciling out the camp t shirts . At the end of the day I had completed eleven of the shirts!!

The last day we took the boys to bath way beach and had a camp out! We had so much food! We made the  local dish oil down and had sandwiches! In the evening we built a fire and made s'mores before bed! It was a long right it rained and the tent got soaked on the inside and I did not have berry much to stay warm! But I did get some sleep. The next day we took the boys to the beach and played soccer, some if the boys flew kites and others decorated their camp shirts with fabric markers! It was a good day before clean up and then heading home!