Week Three Into Week Four

We wrapped up plant week on Friday with a tour of the plants in our own village.  Our tour was led by "farmer" Lintus who grows pumpkins and knows the names of all the plants and fruit trees.  It wonderful to be lead around the village by the campers who proudly pointed out their homes and shared their local knowlege with us.

Uncle Graham and the boys continued to work on their carpentry projects.  This year the boys planned their own projects and they are continuing to hammer, saw and paint as we continue into week 4.
Uncle  Scott was only able to join us for 1 week but it was great to have him.  He has already posted some great shots on facebook and we can't wait to see what he will post on our website!

Week 4 began with Auntie Chara leading a study of water.  One activity was to figure out how water is collected, saved, and used at Camp Sylvester and to compare this with the water system in the village.  The campers were surprised to learn how much water we store and how much we use.

The weather this year has been fantastic for camp with no cancellations of swimming.  In fact, we have experienced a mini-drought!  Last night however, we were awakened by thunder, lightening, and some heavy rains that continued until about 8 am.  We were expecting that the campers would not come down.  However, by 8:30 the tables were full and we were rushing to get set up!  Perfect weather for a water week!

Yesterday were handed out the gift bags that are completed by Canadian friends for each camper.  There was much excitement as some of the contents were visible.  Today the campers took almost an hour to complete their thank you notes and many had brought down the letters and photos they had received in their bags, carefully copying the names onto their thank you notes.

Plans are well underway for our Junior Leaders reward and I hope to include all of the leaders as each, in their own way, has done a great job.  We are encouraging them, and ourselves, to finish well.
Today the team headed to Castries after camp so that I could finish shopping for the Blessing Bags to be distributed after camp on Friday.  This year we are also giving each camper a $20.00 EC voucher for Simon's Grocery in the village.  We have taken the money from the gift bags and added some more so that each child's family will be able to buy chicken or groceries to further extend the impact of blessings.  This is new this year and we hope we will be able to continue in the future.

Thanks for your continued support and encouragement and please pray that we will finish well, making Camp Sylvester 10, the best year ever!!

Blessings

Auntie Shel