Day 4; English Camp

Here's how English Camp works. 115 kids are divided into three color groups: The Blue 5 and 6 graders, the Green 3 and 4 graders, and the Red 1 and 2 graders. Those groups are broken down again into groups of three or four, led by a "monitor." They go to a lesson, make a craft, eat a snack, play sports, eat lunch, and have "passport time" everyday. Each of those sections are led by the monitors when it's not passport time, or small group time (Break Out Groups, or BOG). But how do these monitors make sure their kids get where they need to be and lead an activity at the same time?

That's where the Service Team comes in. This year the actually have quite a few teenagers or the trip. From what I can see though, there's only a handful my age travelling alone, most other's have a relative or friend.

The Service Team consists of only teenagers from this trip, and local teens from Tres Cantos. We're broken down into 6 groups and assigned different jobs each day.

But when we're not doing a job, we're hanging out in the "Bunker" with the kids from Tres Cantos. If I'm correct, most of them are not believers. There's the "Invisible Friend" game, where everyone draws a name from a bag and leave notes for them throughout the day.

Most if not all of the teens are assigned a BOG too, but they don't lead it. That's left up to those who are over either 18 or 19 (I haven't figured out which yet). The Service Team wears red shirts, and the monitors wear blue, so it's pretty easy to tell which is which.

Today, of course with my luck, my group was assigned a break day. A break day on the first day. So essentially we sat and stared at each other in the Bunker until someone gave us the job of refilling glue bottles. Not exactly easy considering most of the lids were glued shut. Oy.

But tomorrow we apparently have a really full day, so that'll be good. Not good considering the Service Team is supposed to draw a poster each tomorrow, but I don't know if that's seriously required or not. I'll find out tomorrow.

Until then, hasta mañana. =]