Day Camp has begun!

Yesterday marked the beginning of our week-long ESL camp! And so far, it's been going quite swimmingly.

We ended up having 40 children show up yesterday instead of the 30 we were told we'd have, but none of us were really surprised.

They were divided up into four groups (si-faa, si-lee-ung, si-sham-poo, and si-keow AKA blue, yellow, pink, and green) and each group was to have an english lesson with a couple members of the highview team. Monday's lesson was about greetings. Today's lesson was different for each group, and we're going to cycle through (numbers, colours, letters, and body-parts).

We have a bible verse of the day, and then we do some worship and some silly songs (today Heidi and I taught them the Hokey Pokey). We also taught them two songs we teach at KidsRock - Stand on the Rock, and Your Everlasting Love. There's nothing quite like hearing and seeing 40 Thai children yell "Your everlasting loooooooooooooooooooooooove!!!!" while bouncing up and down.

Activities come after lunch, and they vary from beading (surprisingly popular!), puzzles, sports, art, chess, and nature activities.

It's an exhausting but spirit-filling day! Tomorrow we're taking the kids to the actual Hot Springs as an afternoon outing, because who wouldn't want to go swimming in hot water? Haha! Guess I'm not quite Thai yet! :)

Megan.
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