On Feb. 16-20th, my organization and I held a 5-day life skills winter camp in which we taught 35 school children the importance of peer education, HIV/AIDS and STI prevention and awareness, relationship, decision-making, communication and leadership skills. Below are some pictures of my camp:
This is another volunteer, Brock, who came from across the country to help out with the camp. The background is of the Great Manas, an epic war hero who is very much revered here in country.
Yes, that’s right, you’re eyes don’t deceive you. We had crowd surfing going on at our camp.
This is a somewhat successful attempt (after many failed ones) of a jumping picture. The Kyrgyz don’t really do much of these types of pictures and so it was a little difficult explaining to them what I wanted.
This is a picture of the children laughing at my Russian, or so I think...
During the camp, we had everyone’s name across the wall and each day people could write compliments to one another. This kid developed a crush on a girl and made her this:
This is a picture of the collective group outside the school where we had the camp.
One of the games that we played with the children was to lay your head on each other’s stomachs. The object of the game was to get everyone to start laughing so that all you would see were heads bumping up and down. Haha.
For the last day of camp, the school children came together and did a number of performances for us. One of them was impersonations of all the American/PC volunteers. They did an amazing job and it was hilarious. Can you guess which one is supposed to be me?
This is the closing picture for the winter camp. Each kid received a certificate (they love those here) and after all the goodbyes were said and done they wouldn’t stop asking when the summer camp would be… If you look closely, I have braids.
