More On Week 4 Camp

As we talked about before, week 4 was a lot different from the other weeks, but it really was a great week. We did more advanced activities and focused on self worth as the theme of the week. We did team building games and taught the kids job skills like interviewing and resumes. More kids could speak English so it was a bit easier to communicate, and we had more translators than before. We really learned a lot about the kids throughout their stories and we were able to share our stories with them as well.

My favorite game was the spider's web. Teams had to get everyone from one side to the other by going through the holes in the web. The rules could be changed based on what the team was doing, making them have to adapt to the situation. Each hole could only be used once and if the web was touched that hole would be closed up too. The teams that did the best worked as a team to plan ahead and figure out the best way across.

Here Spencer is the last one left and is trying to climb the tree to get through the hole.

This is what happened, ouch! The tree was wet and Spencer fell down. He just had a square bruise on his back from the brick he landed on.

The teams worked on bridge building out of Popsicle sticks and tape.

We had a whole camp scavenger hunt which the kids really enjoyed, this was one of the highlights of the week.

Some kids were pretty good at the guitar.

Gina enjoyed talking to Rebecca about her life and asked us many questions about our marriage and how we interact with each other. It was fun talking about something that she doesn't get to hear about much - a healthy, Godly marriage.

Ionut and I enjoyed hanging out and talking in English. He was one of the best English speakers out of all the orphans. He also loved to break dance and was just a really nice guy.