mercoledì 16 ottobre 2013

A wonderful camp

Hello everyone!

As you can easily imagining reading this post, I survived the 3 days camp with my students. I left the house on Monday morning fearing the worst but I ended up living a great experience!

The adventure starts at about 8:00 on Monday the 7th, all on the bus and...no! Oh no! There is a teacher missing! We wait...15 min...we wait...30 min...we call him, no answer...45 min...we call him, he answers! "Sorry guys, I forgot to update my watch on Sunday..." (we changed to daylight saving on the 5th)...ok, we go, he will reach us later.

We get to the camp at about 10 and we meet the second group of students. The camp is an idea of the government in order to reintegrate the young students who live in a critical context with (ours) with students attending a normal high school. Basically, they are 45 students of a sixth grade (diploma year like in Zurich), we are 27. I see they are somehow shocked at the beginning: our students are loud and, let's put it this way, use a colorful language.

Thanks to the help of the hosts of the camp, the ice is soon broken. The students of Durazno realize in which situation they are going to live in the next 3 days and react the best way! They are ready and open to get to know us without prejudice!



And after a stroll...we get to the beach!

Oops! But where is Carlos, the missing teacher? He should have been here by now! We call..."Hi Carlos, where are you?"
"I'm at the camp!"
"We don't see you!"
"Neither do I!"
"Are you at Kiyu camp? Are you sure?"
"Kiyú? Ehm Kiyú..."
"Carlos?! Where are you?!"
"In a camp...well, I'll reach you soon!"


Waiting for Carlos, we have fun playing on the beach!
The great thing is that our kids are playing with all the other one. For this one time they are all one, they are all just young people having fun together! 

 
 Unforunately, it is now time to go back to the camp now!

And...here he is! Carlos, after a 5 hours walk got to...the right camping place! Finally in Kiyú :) Now the whole team is complete!

Cynthia and Viviana conforting Carlos
after his 5 hour stroll along the
south coast of Uruguay :)
 And after some night activities and a dance...it's finally time for the big challenge! The NIGHT(mare)...
...but incredibly, apart from a couple of strange noises typical of a night with 16 adolescents in a bungalow, and some pine cones flying in the bungalow...everything was perfectly fine and we could sleep 4 hours! (Much better than the 4 minutes I was expecting to sleep :) )


And here we are, me, the director Karina, and the math teacher Ernesto (a man who was born for camping life!) ready for a new fantastic day!




It doesn't take long...just some explanations and altogether as a team ready for the most various challenges! 









 And who survived to the activities of the day could either play soccer on the beach...
<- The professional trainer called "el Ruso" giving some instructions to his team...
 Tatiana (Durazno) celebrating a goal with Oscar (Casilla)->

A student looking for oil... 

Quiet minutes afetr all where gone...

Back to the past!


 To celebrate the great day, nothing better than a huge fire! The day was fantastic, all our students took part in all activities. No violence, no provocations, no insults. Just a having fun! And the Durazno group having fun with us all!

 Some last shots for remembering this night...
What to say more? Thistime my students surprised me in a very positive way! I hope this experience of normality we'll help them in the not too distant future...starting from the next classes!

And so ready to go...and back to NORMALITY!





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