It was a long day, frustrating at times, hard at others but I was making new friends and helping some wonderful girl.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Day #183 Future Planing Day
Thursday 7/25/13
This morning the girls where so tiered they did not want to get up for yoga but once we got out their they seamed to enjoy it. After we changed, and ate breakfast it was time for the AM assembly. Each day a different group had to lead the assembly sing songs, and read a bit a scripture or inspirational quotes. It gives each group responsibility and a chance to pick songs. When that was over we made circles so that when are guests got their were ready for them. Today we had woman from different fields of work come to talk to the girls. They first introduced them selfs and then the girls could ask any questions that they wanted in a 10mi. We had a police woman, Manager at a resort, graphic designer, the education desk, council for the disabled. It was such a grate way for the girls to see what opportunities are out their and here what kinds of problems they might run into but how they can overcome them. They loved it. Latter that day it was time for cake decorating, we where having a compassion between the groups. We had to pick a piece of paper out of a bowl with themes on them. We pulled wedding, so we selected a heart shaped cake and are theme was Love Glows. We thought it was grate because the camp is called camp glow. We won most creative. It was a long day. We had dinner and then went into the crafts free time room. People played guitar, made friendship bristliest, did nails and played with each others hair. It was a good night the girls where finally starting to follow rules and get to know one another. It was still a late night for me before bed. Also one of my friends that I asked to be a councilor had to leave so that added a lot of stress to me. On the good side she left here bedding and said that I could use it so I did and it was very fluffy and comfy.
Day # 182 Lets get started ladies (Self Discovery Day)
Wednesday 7/24/13
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXr8pg59GE
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
Day # 181 First day of camp Glow
Tuesday 7/23/13
I'm back and going to update my posts, I know you are all glad to here that!!!!!!!
DAY 1.
I started off the day gathering all of my bags and going up stairs to help Steph with all of here guitars. We caught a buss and filled up the first seat of the hole buss with all of are stuff and headed up to Wester Hall Secondary. We got their at 9am and we had to organize, clean and get stuff put together for when the girl campers arrived. About 3pm the girls arrived and we had a short meeting to get all of the rules and groups put together. When that was done it was time to unpack and get ready for dinner. I think that the first night was the hardest due to the fact that each girl was so different from the next. Also they were not used to are rules and most of them had never been away from home for a over night camp. When we where done with dinner we had a bit of games, showers and then it was light. Wow was that a challenge, five minuet showers and then getting them all to sleep. I had brought 2 sheets, 2 yoga mats and a pillow to sleep on thinking that was enough.
I'm back and going to update my posts, I know you are all glad to here that!!!!!!!
I started off the day gathering all of my bags and going up stairs to help Steph with all of here guitars. We caught a buss and filled up the first seat of the hole buss with all of are stuff and headed up to Wester Hall Secondary. We got their at 9am and we had to organize, clean and get stuff put together for when the girl campers arrived. About 3pm the girls arrived and we had a short meeting to get all of the rules and groups put together. When that was done it was time to unpack and get ready for dinner. I think that the first night was the hardest due to the fact that each girl was so different from the next. Also they were not used to are rules and most of them had never been away from home for a over night camp. When we where done with dinner we had a bit of games, showers and then it was light. Wow was that a challenge, five minuet showers and then getting them all to sleep. I had brought 2 sheets, 2 yoga mats and a pillow to sleep on thinking that was enough.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Day # 180 Have to give him away
Monday 7/ 22/ 13
Today was a good day I went back to white cane to work on some more bottles. The people are really enjoying my class, asking me how to do things, how they look, what I think? Its so much fun. I also tried a new style of bottle for myself. It was a good day so far. Then I got a call from my boss at the Peace Corps saying that we needed to have a meeting because my landlord didn't like my dog selection. So I went to the office and the head director for the caribbean was there, she was coming already to see how everyone is doing down here, and then my boss. They told me that I could not keep my puppy!!! It was a nice meeting and I completely understand, and will do what is necessary. But man its hard to give away your baby, who you trained, picked up poop vomit and little peepee puddles. I had learned to late in the game how the people here feel about pit bulls, to me I was rescuing him from life in a box or a fighting ring. To others I had adopted a killing machine, and a blood sucker. I just think its so sad that people have to judge a breed of dog and not what it becomes. Ohhhh if you all only knew how much time I spent with him, taking him for walks, going to see people at the beach, working on commands (sit, stay, lay down) He is going to be a sweet heart. I just have o find the right home for him so he will get the same amount of love that I am giving him. Any ways I will do just that find him a grate home. After that I went and got read to got up to dance class just so I can drop off a bottle that I painted for Discover magazine. I have a friend their so I wanted to surprise him with it. When I got their he was so exited that he put it on a shelf right away. Makes me feel so good when people like my work. Anyways I learned 3 new line dances tonight, it was a grate class and stress reliever. Now its time to go home and pack for my one week camp GLOW. So I will be away from the blog 8 days but I will catch up when I get home. So see yall in a few days. Also thank you mom, grandma and grandpa I raised the most money in the group equaling $550EC, Love you all.
Today was a good day I went back to white cane to work on some more bottles. The people are really enjoying my class, asking me how to do things, how they look, what I think? Its so much fun. I also tried a new style of bottle for myself. It was a good day so far. Then I got a call from my boss at the Peace Corps saying that we needed to have a meeting because my landlord didn't like my dog selection. So I went to the office and the head director for the caribbean was there, she was coming already to see how everyone is doing down here, and then my boss. They told me that I could not keep my puppy!!! It was a nice meeting and I completely understand, and will do what is necessary. But man its hard to give away your baby, who you trained, picked up poop vomit and little peepee puddles. I had learned to late in the game how the people here feel about pit bulls, to me I was rescuing him from life in a box or a fighting ring. To others I had adopted a killing machine, and a blood sucker. I just think its so sad that people have to judge a breed of dog and not what it becomes. Ohhhh if you all only knew how much time I spent with him, taking him for walks, going to see people at the beach, working on commands (sit, stay, lay down) He is going to be a sweet heart. I just have o find the right home for him so he will get the same amount of love that I am giving him. Any ways I will do just that find him a grate home. After that I went and got read to got up to dance class just so I can drop off a bottle that I painted for Discover magazine. I have a friend their so I wanted to surprise him with it. When I got their he was so exited that he put it on a shelf right away. Makes me feel so good when people like my work. Anyways I learned 3 new line dances tonight, it was a grate class and stress reliever. Now its time to go home and pack for my one week camp GLOW. So I will be away from the blog 8 days but I will catch up when I get home. So see yall in a few days. Also thank you mom, grandma and grandpa I raised the most money in the group equaling $550EC, Love you all.
Day # 179 New music
Sunday 7/ 21 /13
Today was another lazy weekend but I did find a program online that converts youtube videos into mp3's. So I spent a lot of my day playing with my music. I added my new songs to my iPod. Music is a big part of the culture down here so it was nice to be able to get some of the local Grenadian songs. My ITunes is confused my my credit card, because I have it set up that the home address is Arizona but I am using it here in Grenada so its very confused. So its nice to be able to get new music. I learned the other day that the new phones work here in the caribbean, they take sim cards like we use here. A lot of the people in the peace corps have them because they an get wifi, and use the phone. Its important to have a phone that hooks up to wifi so we can get emails from work on them while we are around town. They also take grate picks I have seen. One of the girls here has a waterproof case and she is starting a vlog ( Video blog) I thin thats cook. Any ways I got to skype with my mom for a good long time and that was really nice. Its grate to here her voice and get to here about whats going on in my home town. A little latter I went down to the beach with some friends, it was cool outside and relaxing.
Today was another lazy weekend but I did find a program online that converts youtube videos into mp3's. So I spent a lot of my day playing with my music. I added my new songs to my iPod. Music is a big part of the culture down here so it was nice to be able to get some of the local Grenadian songs. My ITunes is confused my my credit card, because I have it set up that the home address is Arizona but I am using it here in Grenada so its very confused. So its nice to be able to get new music. I learned the other day that the new phones work here in the caribbean, they take sim cards like we use here. A lot of the people in the peace corps have them because they an get wifi, and use the phone. Its important to have a phone that hooks up to wifi so we can get emails from work on them while we are around town. They also take grate picks I have seen. One of the girls here has a waterproof case and she is starting a vlog ( Video blog) I thin thats cook. Any ways I got to skype with my mom for a good long time and that was really nice. Its grate to here her voice and get to here about whats going on in my home town. A little latter I went down to the beach with some friends, it was cool outside and relaxing.
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Day #178 Dance Camp
Saturday 7/20/13
This morning I had to get up and get ready, I was asked to be the photographer for Stephanie's dance camp performance. The camp has been going on for about four summers now and this was the first year that had a mix of girls including special ed. They were fantastic, this year a local woman from Grenada came back from NY to help out with the camp and get funding, she was a bit success. After the performance was over they had refreshments in the lobby. It was a very nice show. When I got home I had to finish making deviled eggs because I was taking them to a little salsa dance party with a few friends. I got there at seven and we ate and had some drinks and danced on the veranda right in front of the beach. It was nice to here the waves crashing and have the cool breeze. It was just a small get together but a grate mix of people. It was a really fun night.
This morning I had to get up and get ready, I was asked to be the photographer for Stephanie's dance camp performance. The camp has been going on for about four summers now and this was the first year that had a mix of girls including special ed. They were fantastic, this year a local woman from Grenada came back from NY to help out with the camp and get funding, she was a bit success. After the performance was over they had refreshments in the lobby. It was a very nice show. When I got home I had to finish making deviled eggs because I was taking them to a little salsa dance party with a few friends. I got there at seven and we ate and had some drinks and danced on the veranda right in front of the beach. It was nice to here the waves crashing and have the cool breeze. It was just a small get together but a grate mix of people. It was a really fun night. 
Day # 177 Big snail
Friday 7/19/13
Today I worked some more with the people at white cane, but today was nice because we had the under coat painted and dried so they could start drawing the pictures they wanted and painting. I was working with one young man who is high functioning, artistic and loves to lear so he was perfect to help. He decided that he was going to do a nutmeg bottle. It was so awesome because when I would tell him something he would listen and understand why I was having him do it. His bottle really came together. On my way home I happened to find a huge snail. I love snails, not because of sponge bob either. Since I was little I used to collect them and feed them so now when I find big ones or colored ones I have to p
ick them up for old time sake. When I got home I had to hurry to start and get dinner ready for the boys. I was having two friends over for dinner, I made pasta salad, deviled eggs and brought worst with caramelized onions. I was so exited when found those in the store it was like a small reminder of the US. The boys really liked my US dinner, its fun to share some of my dishes with them, because down here I eat Grenadian food and thats that they are used to. It was a good evening.
Today I worked some more with the people at white cane, but today was nice because we had the under coat painted and dried so they could start drawing the pictures they wanted and painting. I was working with one young man who is high functioning, artistic and loves to lear so he was perfect to help. He decided that he was going to do a nutmeg bottle. It was so awesome because when I would tell him something he would listen and understand why I was having him do it. His bottle really came together. On my way home I happened to find a huge snail. I love snails, not because of sponge bob either. Since I was little I used to collect them and feed them so now when I find big ones or colored ones I have to pick them up for old time sake. When I got home I had to hurry to start and get dinner ready for the boys. I was having two friends over for dinner, I made pasta salad, deviled eggs and brought worst with caramelized onions. I was so exited when found those in the store it was like a small reminder of the US. The boys really liked my US dinner, its fun to share some of my dishes with them, because down here I eat Grenadian food and thats that they are used to. It was a good evening.
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