How Should I Spend My Summer?

4-H Bling

Throughout my three weeks of camp this summer (two as a counselor, one as a camper) I stocked up on various 4-H related items.

The camp director had each of the counselors make one of these so we could teach the campers.

On a rainy day my friend Jessica taught us how to make beady buddies so I made one with my tribe on it. I also made a spirit stick.
My friend Eric told me I should be ashamed that after years of counseling and camping I still didn’t have a cross-stitch nametag. So I asked the cross-stitch instructor to start one for me. Then, my friend Kelly added the clover during Older Camp. Here it is complete with my Charting and Tenth Year Pin.

Another counselor was making these bracelets with tribal colors so I asked for one.

Some of the campers at intermediate were making different things with Perler Beads so I sat down with them and made a council circle. I think I might have made more crafts than most campers.

Camp Time!

I leave tonight for 4-H camp. This week will b the first time all the Marchese children will be at the same camp. This should be interesting. I believe this will be my eleventh year of camping. This week I will be counseling younger, next will be older (where I will be a camper) and then I will counsel intermediate. I’m going to be teaching an acting class for the second year, so I’ll be sure to write about it once I’m back.

Songs With Mom's Class

I was just opening my eyes yesterday morning, when my mother burst into the room and said “You’re coming to my class today to teach the kids songs right?” I rolled over and tried to figure out what on earth she meant. Then, I remembered that on Monday she had asked me if I could come to her first grade class on Wednesday and teach them some 4-H camp songs. She said that she had worked it out with my grandfather, who I had plans to work with, and to be there at 10:00. I have been counseling at Camp Frame for a few years now and will be camping for the eleventh time this year, but for the life of me I did not know what songs I was going to teach these kids. I tore apart a box I had stashed under my desk and found an old camp song book. I flipped through it and made a list of songs I knew well enough to teach. I also picked a couple theatre games I could teach the kids. At 10:00, I signed into the elementary school and walked into my mother’s classroom. The kids remembered me; I did a theatre activity with them over winter break. We took them outside and got into a circle. I explained what camp was like and told them that I would teach them a song that all first year campers needed to learn- Grey Squirrel. Then, we played a game of Red Ball/Blue Ball. Next, I taught them the song Every Little Cell, and we finished up with a game of Zip/Zap/Zop. Mom says the kids were singing all day.

First Vlog

I have been working on my charing project for 4-H. One of the activities I had to complete was to "show who I am". So I decided to make a Vlog. I've been meaning to do so for a while.