Hey all! It is HOT HOT HOT here!! I actually ended up with heat stroke a couple days ago. We have been having a blast working with the Hmong children and helping the some of the older Hmong study for their U.S citizenship test. The hardest part is the language barrier. Some of the little kids know English but most of the time we have to use translators. Yesterday at the family carnival, we set up a dunk tank which was I big hit! All the children loved to see us all dunked. Although I am having a great time here I miss home and my parents. I also would like to ask everyone to pray for my grandmother. She is suffering from Alzheimer’s and is getting worse. Thank you everyone! Hope your doing well and keep smiling!!!!!
Katie Winton-Henry
I am Hot and Sweaty, to shower over here you must walk to the school that is a few blocks away in the hot morning sun. Yes it is hard but the little kids that we work with are always fun and really make a bad day fun!
Much love and peace!
Martin B.
P.S. Please send me comic books, The Initiative Avengers #4!
Hello, I am being forced into blogging with the arrival of Elizabeth Driver-Bucholtz. This whole work camp has been a very rewarding experience. The challenge has been communicating with the kids. Many of them speak little or no English at all. They all speak Lao or Hmong so there is no way other than sign language to communicate. The food has been good for work camp and the leaders have done a good at this work camp.
Nick Lawson
Chris and I arrived today (Friday), so unfortunately we missed the dunking, but heard it was a HUGE success and a blast. We are soooooo happy to be here, if only for the end of the week. The youth are amazing and I’ve heard that they’ve had a great impact with the youth and helping the adults with their English and citizenship. A little bird told me that they had to study up on some of the citizenship questions themselves. It’s not near as hot as I expected, but it’s certainly a bit more toasty than the Bay Area. We just heard from Adam and he said General Synod is amazing. He’s so happy to be there, but is sad about missing the end of work camp. To all you parents of the youth at work camp, Chris and I say thank you for raising such great youth!
Chris and Elizabeth
What it do? Two days ago Nick and I dominated Sardines (anyone who disagrees is jeaqlous). We found everyone in less than two minutes except Adam and Rebecca when someone tricked us. We hid up on the roof after we found people first for the second time. This was a good hiding place but everyone refused to climb the tree and crawl on the roof.
Yesterday we went to FIRM in the morning and helped out in preparation for the carnival. The carnival later in the day was tight though there was no food other than hot dogs. I participated in the dunk tank and it was fun the first couple of times.
Peace, Michael
Hi everyone! We’re back again. Nick and Michael did NOT dominate sardines – they CHEATED by going into a very dark closet and turning on the light and going “oh, look, we found them.” We made them not get to hide the next round, and Nick pouted like crazy, though he denies it. Elizabeth (Brenum) got a splinter in her toe when we were at FIRM yesterday, and was forced to perform surgery on herself with Louis’ pocket knife. We missed Jasper.
At FIRM yesterday morning/afternoon, we worked with the ESL class again, and we also set up several tent/canopies. Michael, Elizabeth, and I (Becca) won the contest of who could put the tent up first, and then we all took naps on the grass in the shade and flicked blades of grass at each other. Yesterday evening was the carnival, and it was very amusing (for Becca and Katie) to watch people get dunked, and it was fun to get dunked (for everyone else, but especially Rachel). We also ran a collage-making table, but the dunk tank was way more popular. Becca was in a very bad mood due to several things, and really needed ice cream. Everyone else agreed, so we went and got 6 tubs of ice cream + hot fudge and sprinkles. While we were eating ice cream, Louis and Alexa started making jokes about a T-rex that none of the rest of us got or thought was funny at all. After ice cream, some of us danced the Congress of Vienna five times. Most people went to bed, but Elizabeth, Rachel, Becca, Michael, and Alexa set up a massage circle, which was really nice.
This morning, Michael, Rachel, Louis, and Becca went for their morning walk. The Wooden Spoons are on cooking duty again.
Everyone has been frantic coming up with stuff for TNT (the talent/no talent show), and making secret buddy gifts, and all sorts of other mysterious stuff.
We have to go to FIRM for our last night with the kids, so more later.
Love,
Becca, Elizabeth and Rachel
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Thanks for the update - it was great to hear from the previously blogless workcampers! Glad to hear the surgery was a success. I got a nice massage from Monica last night during a dance break and am starting planning Alice's bday cake. See you tomorrow and best wishes for an awesome T-NT Show!
XOXO
Hey guys! We're going waltzing tonight without you :^( Was Elizabeth as brave as Rachel and me when she got her surgery? Was there blood involved? I bet I can guess which of you did the Congress of Vienna five times... I miss you all, and will see some of you soon, I hope.
<3 (are you not proud of my heart making skills? I've just figured it out!)
Katie:
Best wishes to you, your grandmother, and all of your family in this very trying time.
Martin:
Your request for Avengers: The Intiative #4 appears to be a tad early.
AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #3
THE STORY:
"Bug Hunt"
He's BACK IN BLACK and right in the Initiative's sights! Join WAR MACHINE and his assault team as they hunt down the #1 unregistered hero in America: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! Also: which former mutant has the BEAST brought in to train TRAUMA? And introducing the Initiative's all-new Black Ops Unit-- a team with a secret that will make this the can't-miss-comic of '07!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
PRICE: 2.99
IN STORES: June 6, 2007
Issue #3 didn't come out until 6/6/2007. You're a couple of weeks too early for #4 unless you have a subscription or a secret source.
Nick/Mike/Elizabeth/Rebecca/Rachel:
Instant replay may need to be instituted for Work Camp Sardines beginning with the 2008 season.
Elizabeth, Rachel, Monica:
2007 may soon be known as the year of the great splinter epidemic.
Elizabeth & Rachel:
You two should come out with a book, The Healing Power of Ice Cream. Be sure to have a chapter on the synergistic effects of hot fudge and sprinkles.
All:
Hopefully there will be some dunk tank photos that can be shared with those of us who can only vicariously share in the fun.
There may have been a language barrier between you and the Hmong adults and children you have been visiting. I'm sure that they quite clearly understand and appreciate that you have shared your time, talents, caring, and compassion with them for the past week. Actions do speak much louder than words and love is the universal language.
Hey! Glad to hear all continues to go well. I am sorry to hear about your Grandma, Katie. All the best to you as you finish workcamp, sing in Hmong in worship, and make your way home. Love to all...
Adam
Katie, I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother. We'll be praying for her and you and your family.
To everyone -- wow, it sounds like you're having a pretty amazing time! On your return, however, I'll have to conduct a full investigation to get to the truth about this sardines thing . . . be prepared for a tough interrogation!
;)
Elizabeth, you didn't have to amputate, did you?
We miss you all SOOO much and wish we were there! I guess I'll have to settle for just eating lots of ice cream with sprinkles. Poor me!! Becca, what exactly is the proper dose of ice cream for a bad mood? And do you eat it or inject it?
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