Okay so let’s start with Tuesday. Tuesday we spent most of our time with a behavior aide person telling us about different ways to discipline, the types of parenting you will see, how to keep children on tasks, autism, and ADHD. Pretty much all of this was just like a review for some of my classes. I felt so smart listening to Ms. Kathy talk. Her specialty is preschool so I automatically loved her and the way she taught. After that which took most of the day, we found out what age groups and who our co-councilors are. I am officially going to be working with “Group 5”, or “Team Blue”, or 5th graders. I am kind of nervous since the only kids I work with these days are early childhood which basically means birth-8 years old. I normally stay to the younger side though unless I am teaching DNOW which then normally means junior high and then even that is just girls. I don’t think I am not going to be able to handle it or anything crazy like that, and I know that God has a reason for everything. Bri is my co-councilor and I think we are going to have a lot of fun together, and with the kids. We got done around 5:00, and then at 6:00 me, Jessica U., Becca, and Hannah went to eat at Camellia Grill which was PHENOMENAL!! We then went down to the quarter and had the wonderful Cafe de Monde. It is definitely a place you must visit when coming to NOLA. After some time just walking around we came back to campus and went to bed.
Now to today. (Wednesday) Today we got to training and went straight to curriculum stuff after devotion. Bri and I planned out the first two weeks for the study. The them for the camp is “Heros.” The first 5 weeks are Old Testament heros, and then the last 5 weeks are talking about how God/Jesus is our main hero. Bri and I have some pretty awesome ideas of what to do with “Team Blue” and I will most definitely be posting pictures of a lot of stuff once we get started. After that Dr. T and Dr. Stringer talked to us about kids and salvation, but we didn’t get far before the next speaker got there to talk about problem-solving with kids. Her name was Leslie, and she was very nice. After that we got a list of our kids, and had to call all of the parents to remind them about parent orientation tomorrow night. I have one boy and he is autistic and his mom was telling me all about how much he loves coming to camp every year and has already been talking about it since Christmas. I am thrilled and can’t wait to meet all of my kids. After that it was around 6 and at 6:30 we ordered pizza and started putting together the kids teachers, and parent packets. We were there until 9:00!!! I got back to my dorm around 9:30, and now I am doing this. I am finally watching tv since I’ve been here and I watched House Hunters, and now How I Met Your Mother, and some Good Luck Charlie. Oh, btw, I HATE that Scotty won. He makes me so mad, and angry, and I hate the way he sings, SO MUCH! Okay back to NOLA, tomorrow we have to be there at 8 instead of 9, and I am super tired so I am going to bed very soon! Tomorrow is supposed to be the most stressful day of all summer so this should be fun...prayers are welcome!
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