Monday: Cold Water and Big Storm

We had a great beginning to the camp.  Our first full day had its challenges but everything went well.   Late in the afternoon, we had a hugh storm that lasted on and off most of the night.   The storm forced us inside.   Included is the second picture which shows the diversity of the Roma people.   One girl is what we often think of as Gypsy (Roma)-Dark hair, dark eyes, and dark complexion and the other girl is blond, blue eyes, and fair complexion. 

 

In the morning was our regular schedule of staff devotion, breakfast, cleaning up the rooms, and prayer time with the children.  Our big group time began at 10.  Awards were given for the cleanest rooms.  The boys get to keep a stuffed eagle (not real) in their rooms for the cleanest room.  The girls get to keep a stuffed pig for the cleanest room.   After recognizing clean rooms, Katie taught the Bible Story for the day.  Then we had a small group discussion and prayer time.  The Red, Blue, and Yellow groups worked on skits related to the story and Scriptures to present in the evening worship. 

 

The games time came next.   The sack races proved to be very exciting with many close races and ties.   This carried over into the jump through the hoop race and the over under contest.   The fourth game, bean bag toss, ended with Yellow and Red tired for first place.  We had a toss off between the leaders.   Annamarie, Red, threw both of her bean bags through the hole.   Attila, Red, followed with both of his through the hole.   A total of 4 points!!!  This really put the pressure on the Yellow leadership team.   Robby and Emi, Yellow had to make all of their throws—they made one.  Red won the context.

 

After lunch we all went, swimming (one young man had a fever and did not get to go).  The water was cold---no, it was freezing.   It was so cold that we did not get use to it even through we continued to jump in and playe in it.  Gershom and Zalan, Zolie and Abigai Dohi’s boys really enjoyed the water.  They also enjoyed going up the mountain.   Even yours truly jumped in and swam around a little.  Not many pictures due to the swimming attire of some children.

 

After swimming we had the daily rotations:  crafts, music, and English.   All went well until we were almost finished and the storm came.   We gathered in the big group room.  The first thing that we did was give out a snack of apples.   Then, we dusted off the bingo pieces and cards.  We spend about an hour playing Bingo until supper interrupted out game. 

 

Adel Nagy arranged for the staff’s clothes to be washed.  She hung them out for all of us.   We barely got them in before the storm broke loose.  

 

At night we had the skits from Yelllow, Red and Bloue.  Yellow won tonight.   Floyd spoke on following Jesus (It’s not where you come from, it’s who you are following that matters in life. “.   We had a great day in every way.