A glimpse inside

Here are a couple of pictures from the week.

One is the testing of the popsicle stick structures. The campers were divided into groups and each group was given 20 popsicle sticks, a piece of paper, a pair of scissors, a pencil, and white glue. With these materials they had to make a structure at least one popsicle stick length in height and it had to have a level top where weight could be placed. One group had about 40 lbs on their structure and it did not break.

The other picture is our swimming hole at the river. The irony of the weather was that although it was hot and sunny all day, it would cloud over a lot of the time when we were swimming. We all appreciated it when the sun came out and we had the opportunity to warm up a little.

A voice from the past

Well, this update is long overdue. I am not sure that anyone is reading this anymore. In fact as team members, we have come back to North America and headed towards our perspective homes.
Anyway, we wanted to complete this blog of our adventures this summer for the benefit of our faithful readers. I will try to fill you in on some of those details and then hopefully add some pictures later.
Last time we wrote we had finished our first week in Gyanta, Romania. We had another week of camps there. This week was a little different. There were 16 girls and 6 guys. This meant that there were two female leaders watching 3 rooms and the 3 guys were supervising the 6 boys in one room. The gender inequality also meant that our sports plans for the week had to be adjusted. Thankfully the campers liked to go swimming and we were able to do that a few times.
Lesson time was very similar to the previous week. Jordan and Charlene switched groups, but Matt and Karlynn stayed with the village children. Jordan and Charlene had larger groups this week because there were more campers. In contrast, Matt and Karlynn had about half the number of children attending than the previous week. It was good to see the skits and songs that the groups presented each evening based on what they had learned that morning. It was also nice to tie in the story of creation with a craft to help teach the village children English.
This week was a very good one. It was different from the previous one because of the difference in the campers. It was good to have some experience going in. One thing that we learned is how much God is capable of, and how little we are humanly capable of doing.
From Gyanta, we headed into Hungary. The border did not provide any problems, that is one of the positive aspects of traveling within the European Union. After crossing into Hungary we met up with George DeVuyst from Mukachevo, Ukraine and he drove us the rest of the way to Hejce. This was the last camp location and there were two new weeks of experiences ahead.