This brings us to day 3 - which I was trying to promote as "Hump Day", except none of the Gen Ys actually understood that concept...
Again we were guests on the much more peaceful Murgon/Wondai bus and arrived to the same morning routine with "lovely" singing followed by Captain Sook and Walter. We were then briefed on the morning entertainment - "Pieces of Eight".
It was a team-based collecting game, where items of different colours needed to be collected from around the campsite. Of course no game is complete without antagonists and this was provided in spades by the gophers who as pirates were wounding and pillaging. The kids all seemed to enjoy themselves, and apart from a few leaders who were disproportionately targeted by the pirates, a good time was had by all.
After the game my team had the best "team time" of the week so far and dare I say some there was even some bonding occurring! We shall see if that holds over to tomorrow.
Now lunch was a sight to behold. The bring your own food day has turned into something of an arms race. There was nachos, hot chips, a lot of pizzas and most of them were cooked in the oven! I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if it's not cooked in the fire, it isn't day camp. What's next? A catering van showing up and dishing out food to the kids? I challenge all leaders out there to remember the core principles of day camp and let the kids enjoy burnt food!
After lunch, I finally acceded to my teams tyre-lust and went out on a tyre-hike. We captured three fine specimens from the Australian bush and hauled them back to our gunyah for a ceremonial display. I'm pretty sure that they will have all been stolen by the time we get back to our gunyah tomorrow!
Quite amazingly for children who displayed little interest in art, they spent nearly an hour decorating their treasure boxes. This was a welcome respite from chasing them around.
Tomorrow is stewsday, water-fight day and finally-start-practising-for-the-concert day!
See you then!
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