Today we met at 8:00 at the ICSB and did a bit of worship together as a team. Then, after the kids arrived at 8:30, we started off with some more games to get us going. We did the Banana game again, as well as the name game where you have to attach an action to your name, and then the person next to you says your name with your action, and then their name with their action, and so on, until the last person in the circle has to do everybody’s names. After that we did a game where we were in two circles, holding hands, with a hula hoop over the arms of one pair. We had to pass the hula hoop around the circle by passing it over our arms and putting our bodies through so that it made one complete round of the circle, and then back in the opposite direction. After a couple of practices, we did it as a competition, and my team won! ;) We also played the game “What Is That”, where one person was holding a stick and another person comes up to them and says, “What is that?” They say something like “It’s a guitar” and pretend to play it. The other person says, “No it’s not! That’s a toothbrush” and pretends to brush their teeth with it. Then another person says “What is that?”, and so on.
After that I taught them the song “A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes”, because we were planning to pull kids out individually later to audition them for roles and wanted to hear them sing Cinderella’s solo song. We also worked on “The Work Song” that the mice sing.
Next we split up into two groups again, one for music/drama and one for art. Downstairs they worked on designing and painting some set pieces. Upstairs we did some characterization activities with voice and movement. They had to act as mice, and then again as the evil stepmother. We did a scenario where I was a jeweler, and they each had to take turns improvising as the evil stepmother (or as a King if they were a boy) coming in to buy a bracelet. It was so much fun and the kids were so creative and hilarious! We also did The Human Machine Game, to prepare the kids for making Cinderella’s carriage out of their own bodies - it was really fun. Then we switched groups and did the same with the other group.
After that, all of the kids went down to art, and we pulled them out one at a time to sing and read for us. During lunch we did the practically impossible task of casting all of these 17 lovelies into 18 parts.
For lunch there was meat soup again, but the chef made me a fruit soup (served cold). It was neat - it tasted kind of like apple crisp). Then we had rice with chicken and vegetables (mine was just vegetables in it), and then a pink cake thing for dessert. This is probably one of the only mission trips where someone comes home weighing more than when they left...just saying!
After lunch we announced the parts, and the kids were excited to get started. We did a full read-through of the script and music first. Then we kept the kids involved in Bibiddy Bobiddi Boo upstairs while the rest went downstairs to paint. We practiced the song and taught the choreography. We also built the human carriage, with the mice becoming horses, coachmen, etc. It looks really good! We performed it for the other group when they came up. After than we worked as a whole group on the opening number, seeing how well they improvised with making a town scene. We will work on it more tomorrow, and then just keep plugging away at the rest of the play.
When the day was done we had a quick wrap-up meeting and prayer, and then Alegria, Ty, Attila and I went to Tesco (that’s the name I couldn’t remember in the other entry) and picked up a few things. And of course we grabbed some more chocolate! And guess what I found?! It’s a chocolate bar with POPCORN in it?! WHY do we not have this in CANADA? I haven’t had a chance to taste it yet, but I’m sure it’s good. How could it not be?
Then the four of us met Rebecca and Meaghan for dinner at a restaurant. I had pizza with peas, corn, broccoli and mushrooms on it. The funny thing was that when I got it, each of the for toppings were separate (they each made up 1/4 of the pizza). The mushroom and corn sections were the best...I didn’t like the peas on my pizza very much! For dessert Meaghan and I shared this crepe with walnut spread in the middle and chocolate sauce on top. We all had a really good time together, laughing lots! Ty makes fun of the fact that I say “eh” quite frequently. I have never noticed HOW MUCH I use that word until I came here! Haha. He told me a good joke about how Canada was named. He said they put all of the consonants in a hat and pulled them out one at a time. First they pulled out a C and said, “eh?”, then N, “eh?”, D, “eh”? I laughed pretty hard about that one. I also got lectured by the whole group because I have never seen Monty Python.
It was 9:00 when we finally got home (after leaving the training centre at 7:45 in the morning), so we decided just to go to bed. I think I’m the only one still awake at the moment.
I had some good conversation with Rebecca at dinner too. I was asking why we weren’t doing a Christian themed play if we are a Christian organization trying to evangelize. She talked about how a Christian play would draw in the “church kids”, but probably wouldn’t be very inviting for non-Christian kids. For example, if we advertised that we were doing the story of “Joseph”, unbelievers might have no idea who that was. But advertising “Cinderella”, is opening it up to a wider population. She also talked about how it is easier to reach unbelievers through non-Christian activities (such as a secular musical, baseball, English classes, etc.). For many of them, this might be the only way to come into contact with Christians and hear the word.
One really neat success story of the camp so far is about a young boy named Huba. He does not speak any English, and is really shy. He did not want to be here at all. He spent a lot of the morning standing looking at the wall. Rebecca talked with him a bit about how she used to be very shy and that God helped her to become less shy. We prayed for him at the end of the first day, asking God to help him feel safe and included, and continued our prayers for him every day. Each day so far Huba has been coming out of his shell more and more. He is participating in everything now, and having a good time. It was really amazing to see the huge results of our prayers for Huba!
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