This morning is beautiful! So far in the camp we’ve seen baboons (TONS), white-tailed mongrels, monkeys, hippos (which really freak me out!), crocodiles, elephants, and lots of strange birds. Last night I got pretty freaked out because the hippos and elephants walk around outside the chalets at…
The first day of safari was definitely an adventure! We loaded up the bus and one of the World Camp Land Rovers at 7:30am and started on our trip to Zambia. About an hour in, we stopped at a gas station and one of the volunteers, Jay, saw a…
What an adventure the last 24 hours have been! Yesterday was day two at Namitete. The second day is when we split up the boys and girls to do empowerment discussions. Monica and I were assigned to 40 girls, which is a HUGE number for empowerment. Considering the numbers, everything…
Today was the first day at Namitete school. It went almost perfectly. The day started really rainy, but by the time we had gotten to the school the sun had come out. We had a moment of breathing time on the bus (one of our coordinators is a yoga teacher…
First of all Jesse, one of the original founders of World Camp came to stay starting Monday night with his friend Josh. They started a company called MokuZoku which is an online game site for kids, where points earned online earn trees for us to give the kids to plant…
Today was quite an adventure! We were supposed to teach a three-day camp at Mnkhupa. We all piled in to the bus and headed down these back roads, but it had rained the night before and so we were sliding all over the road from the mud. After the…
Today was our day off before we start the next set of camps (Mnkhupa from Monday to Wednesday and Namitete from Thursday to Saturday). The group went hiking, but I stayed home with one of our coordinators, Catherine, to just hang out and recover. I went outside earlier to sit…
The last day of camp at Kamwama went really well. We taught the kids how to play ultimate frisbee, did a little HIV teaching, and then planted some trees around the school. The kids got to do their presentations, and I was SO proud of our group. They stood up…
We went back to Kamwama school for day two today. The main topic was “empowerment”, so the girls were split up from the boys. The goal of the discussion was to make the girls feel like they have a choice in whether they have sex with a boy…
Today was our first day at the Kamwama camp in Malawi. We’re split up in to teams of two for the teaching, but the beginning of the day is the best part. We drive up in a bus, and the kids come RUNNING at us from all different…