Grensave Summer Camp

The whole month of July was consumed by Grensave's Summer Camp, in which local and Peace Corps volunteers helped as counselors to the 50 kids, ages 4-12,that would come every morning, bright n' early at 8am (the earliest I've had to wake up all year, since all my school-year projects are in the afternoons). I came 3 days a week and we did everything from snorkeling, swimming, salsa dancing, hiking, art, sign language, sports, learning about our bodies & teen pregnancy, pet farms, museums, river tubing, and going to the beach on our last day in the pouring rain. So much fun! And I got to know a few of my previous Grensave students even better while also meeting some new kids from my neighborhood...like my twin buddies Jervon & Josanne.

sailing & snorkeling...
hiking at Concord Falls...
me, Grensave's secretary Merril, & Samantha (a volunteer from Canada)...
me & some of the older girls...
my little ladies Josanne & Tori-Anne...
I once told my buddy Jervon that I could read minds, so every morning he would find me and ask me to do it again...
river tubing...
some of the staff & volunteers...