We just finished a fabulous training week with our leadership team in Botswana! This is our first year partnering here and we have really set off on the right foot together, connecting quickly and discovering the best ways to support each other to make camp magic happen. The team had done so much work leading up to this past week, recruiting 24 staff and over 100 campers for 2 sessions. On Monday morning they brought so much energy and enthusiasm to our little apartment 'training center' aka the living room! That first morning set the tone for the entire week and hopefully for all of camp programming. We are all aware that bumps in the road will happen and we are prepared to get through them together. The theme we have taken on is Botho, which essentially means 'I am because we are.' The idea is that no man is an island and we are a person through the people around us. This theme was the first instance of the Camp Hope team infusing their culture and they continued to do this all week with songs and cheers (kilos), making this program theirs!
Our little SeriousFun team is getting on great, too. It's not always a joy dealing with things like no hot water, confusing washing machines, funky tasting ketchup, unfriendly locals, and the smell of burning trash, but with these 3 it's so entertaining and we laugh together like its our one and only job! Below are a few pictures including our team (Melissa, Hilary, Zac) and our camp director here, B2.
Hope everyone is well back in the states, happy solstice!!
Mary
PS Friday night dinner included an absolutely amazing DJ by our table (maybe a bit too close)--he was gooood! Picture below..
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