Tuesday, July 5, 2011

To Be Blessed

The Poland and American teams meet each morning for reflection and prayer let by Piotr, our camp director, and pastor of his own church in Krakow. He prayed from his heart and asked us to take today and bless someone and to do something nice for that person.

Since it was our first day back to English lessons, we surely were going to need as many blessings as we could get! The children rose to the occasion and were very good...maybe the children were just tired.

Ms. Diane was a guest speaker and went to the Level III classroom all dressed as nature guide. She taught about tracking forest animals by the way they hop, leap, waddle or walk. Did you know, Poland does not have chipmunks? Or as least the children don't think so.

Ms. Pam's class played a competitive game of Jeopardy, which reviewed all the topics we have covered so far. The children brought sunshine inside with posters of the sun and listed things that make them happy.

Ms. Judy held down the fort in the Lever II room while Ms. Diane was upstairs and taught the Our Father prayer in sign language. She also had the children draw a sun and list things that made them happy and played some games. The children played restaurant and used their English skills as they pretended to be waiters and customers. It was very comical!!

We kicked off Carnival Night with a video that Randy and Cathie selected. It was about the American nation and words of wisdom from leaders throughout history. The children went to booths to enjoy face and hand painting, bozo shoes, crush-a-cup, photo booth, cookie eating contest, craft table and finger crochet bracelets. The children enjoyed winning prizes and having fun with their friends.

We are truly blessed not only by Piotr but by everyone here.

We thank God for all He has done for us.

Pam, Judy and Diane