Friendly Camp Day 4 & 5

Hello!!!

We've had a very busy past 2 days at camp! Both today and yesterday were ropes days. We split into 3 groups and rotated between the rockwall, the low individual ropes course and the high team ropes course. All of the campers had a blast!!!!

We started today off with social skills and floor hockey. After lunch we headed over for ropes and then had some time for talent show preparation. A lot of the campers made up skits, songs or dances to perform at the talent show this evening!

I'm putting up some pictures of the campers from the ropes activities so take a look when you have a chance!! See you all tomorrow afternoon.

https://picasaweb.google.com/110431593182336837421

Friendly Camp Day 3

Hello again!

We've had another great day here at camp! This morning we started the day with social skills and arts & crafts. Then after lunch we met up with the ropes staff to do some introductory activities to get ready for low ropes and the rock wall tomorrow. Right now we've just come up from the dock where we did some canoeing and had a treasure hunt for gold in the water!! The campers are about to head to the field for a game of ultimate frisbee before dinner.

I'm uploading some more pictures to yesterday's album so you can see how much fun we've had today:

https://picasaweb.google.com/110431593182336837421

Friendly Camp Day 1 & 2

Friendly camp is already well underway! When the campers arrived yesterday we ate a quick lunch before taking a tour of the camp and playing some ice breaker games to get to know everybody. Then after dinner we played a campwide game of hostage!!! Each team picked one counselor to hold hostage, the goal of the game was to rescue your counselor back before the other team. Then we all headed to the ampitheatre for campfire and snack before bed.


Today was horseback riding day. The campers split into 4 groups and rotated between horseback riding, shelter building, social skills and parachute games! Then afterwards we headed down to the dock for some swimming and canoeing!

I'm uploading some pictures now so they should be up in a few minutes, take a look!! :

https://picasaweb.google.com/110431593182336837421

Buddies Camp Day 5 & 6

I can't believe Buddies Camp is almost over already!! This week has flown by. The campers had a blast during ropes yesterday. I'm just uploading some pictures so you can see all of the amazing activities we did on the low individual ropes course and the rockwall!! (https://picasaweb.google.com/110431593182336837421)

We're just about to start the social skills review game this morning and then celebrate the week with our awards ceremony before the bus comes. See you all soon!!

- Phoenix

Buddies Day 4 & 5

Hi everyone!!!

We've been very busy the past few days here at Buddies Camp. Yesterday we started off the day by spliting into 2 groups and rotating between floor hockey and social skills. Then afterwards we met with the ropes staff again. This time we split into 3 groups. One group went on the low individual ropes course while the others played group challenges on the ground. We meet with the ropes staff again after lunch today and we'll switch up so everyone gets a chance on the low individual course.

We also had an egg drop competition yesterday! We split into 5 groups and each group had to create a shelter that could protect an egg when dropped from a small height off of the ground. A few of the eggs cracked but we all had a blast!

It's a beautiful sunny day out today so right now the campers are all down at the dock swimming and canoeing.

I'm uploading some more pictures right now so take a look:

https://picasaweb.google.com/110431593182336837421

Buddies 2011 Day 3

Hi everyone!

Sorry the pictures didn't work before, I've been having a bit of trouble with the internet connection here but I think they should be up and running now so take another look!

Today is Survivor Day!!! We started out the day with social skills and arts and crafts. The craft today was rock necklaces. Each of the campers found a rock to paint and then we turned it into a pendant for them to wear as a necklace. Then after lunch we met up with the ropes staff to do some introductory games!! Right now the campers are down at the dock for some swimming and a treasure hunt before dinner! Later we're going to continue with the survivor day theme and build our own shelters before campfire!!!

Buddies 2011 Day 1 & 2

We've been having an awesome time at Buddies Camp so far! Today has been a very busy day. This morning we split into 4 groups and took turns rotating through horseback riding, arts and crafts, social skills, and frisbee!!!! Then we went to the dock to cool off with some swimming and canoeing. All of the campers have been having a blast! Right now we are playing a campwide game of zoobreak! Some of the counselors are dressed up as animals that have escaped from the zoo and it's the campers job to find them and bring them back!


I've put up some pictures so you can see what we've been up to:

https://picasaweb.google.com/110431593182336837421