Busy

My week back from Almaty proved to be super busy. My sitemate was conducting a 2 week long Leadership camp at site for children with strong English skills. The first week was about abilities and creating change, while the second week focused on gender roles, drugs and HIV. 

Other Volunteers came to assist with the camp and we generally had a good time everyday! One day we even went bowling and made nachos!! It was delicious! During these weeks we saw people who looked like they could be foreigners. A brave Volunteer asked if they were…sure enough…they were not from Kazakhstan, but from Belgium and they knew English! We hung out with them one evening and shared what we were doing, while they shared what they were doing. They were just travelling / backpacking. One of the Belgians had a connection here so the decided to come during their summer break. They wanted to see life here, to observe the locals. We invited them to come to camp; they were happy to come. They introduced themselves to the children and allowed for questions. 

After day camp, most days we were able to go to the beach where we swam (well, some of us…others just laid in the sun) and we made sand castles!! TOTALLY FUN!!

Camp in town was exciting, although I did miss my own organization’s camp and am looking forward to next week when I get to go back to Camp Bolashak.