Day Two

Today is the first day of our regular schedule After a relaxing and refreshing nights sleep, the camp gathered for morning worship, with wake-up, stories and prayer. After breakfast, campers scattered to their rotations, choir, choreography, and hand bells, or chimes or grums.

After morning rotations some of the campers play games on the field, while others have team bonding on the stage.

We all need to get our R&R after lunch before heading off to our musical activities,  instrument groups, drama, and “Exploring Instruments.”

Activity time!  It might be the same activities every day, but it’s always an afternoon of fun: basketball, ultimate Frisbee, gaga, dancing, goats, creative writing, arts & crafts, and the swimming pool.  Oh, my!  After another instrument session, it’s spiritual formation, and DINNER!  It’s such a busy day.

Every night, we have one special activity.  Although Boof is a perennial favorite, we debuted a new game (and it was a HIT): Photo Scavenger Hunt!  What is that you ask?  Well . . .

Campers were split off into groups of mixed ages (including adults and LT). Each group had to photograph items from a list and accumulate as many points as possible in the given amount of time.  Playing off this week’s book Rain Reign, groups needed: a pear and a pair; an ant and an aunt.  Playing off another theme (can you guess what it is?): groups needed pictures of something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.  One picture, worth 30 points: acting out a wedding on stage.  There were so many great pictures: human pyramids; people hugging trees; recreations of “The Last Supper”; piggy-back rides.  My personal favorite were the photographs of peoples’ hands: a picture of every hand of every person in your group.

Creative Writing Day One (Sarah Babbitt)

I had the pleasure of writing with Agnes Barthell.  We were a little stuck at first, but it was Alison Feigh to the rescue.  Alison helped us write our first line.  I wrote the second.  And then. . . Agnes wrote the rest.  After we finished, several staff read our poem.  Alison loved it so much, we’re putting it over the fire place in the dining hall.  It doesn’t have a title, but the poem speaks for itself.

Yesterday we arrived at EYMC
If you love music, its the place you should be,
A place to have fun,
Play around in the sun,
Its the best place to be perfectly me

-Agnes Barthel
-Sarah Babbitt
-Alison Feigh

Improving the world

Mason and Johanna are leading a series of TED talks and discussions on issues important to camp, and how campers can improve our world after leaving One Heartland. We will talk about environmental responsibility, peaceful protests, and arming our campers to make a difference in their chosen topics.

We are connected!

We are now connected to the Internet (by a cable)!

There is a backlog of pictures and articles that will be posted as we have time to work on them.

Two photo albums have assembled and are online - see the right column of the blog.

- Jay