Matt's First Day of Camp

Ok so today was the official first day of the camp and man what a day!! My group of eleven children (seven girls and four boys) is called the Spiders!! After an opening of games and some very active songs, we began our classes. Though I’ve never taught formally I thought I was pretty good…or maybe not. The children were very quiet at first and received three gold awards for good behavior, but then I tried to be more casual with them and I soon became their big brother. This meaning that I was now their human target, punching/kicking bag, and the “Interesting Teacher”. As one of the older groups, the children have Ok English but they primarily used it to call each other names. The afternoon games and activities were a lot of fun… with water!! Almost everyone was either soaked or going to be very soon. During that time, each group would go from different activity stations and “pay” for the fun by doing their group cheer. Unfortunately for the Spiders, their group leader had only made up the cheer ten minutes before. Let’s just say that the children were not more comfortable with doing a weird dance that had to do with yelling “SPIDER!! SPIDER!!” over and over again. The lunch break consisted of the kids snickering at me as I attempted to perfect the chopsticks. Overall, the day was a success and I believe that the children learned a lot. The camp ended and Andrew, Allison and I challenged some of the campers to a game of basketball. It was not pretty.