back from camp

I'm now back from the Errachidia English Spring Camp. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work. We were very serious from the beginning.

Welcome to Spring Camp!



We taught English classes in the mornings. We also led clubs - mine was the Journalism Club. We made an awesome English camp newsletter. Here is my English class - the intermediate intermediates!



We had a field trip day when we went to Meski to swim and hang out. This was the last day of some pretty intense afternoon sandstorms (I'm not used to being the desert). It did clear up so we got to swim. The ride there had some messy weather with a combination of the sandstorm and rain. We sang lots of songs.



There were lots of different activities in the afternoons and evenings - sports, lectures, games, music, and cultural activities. On Moroccan culture day there was a wedding ceremony. The music and fashions were very cool. You couldn't see the faces of the bride and groom for the whole time.



Of course we also had American culture day! We realized that our group was rather perfectly geographically diverse (New York, South Carolina, Iowa, Texas, and Washington/California). So we put on a music and dance tour of the USA. We all did an intro and together demonstrated two dances from our area. Some examples: hip-hop, punk, the Charleston, the time warp, chicken dance, two-step, salsa, and grunge. Pretty embarrassing in front of 150 people but still fun!