26/10/2018
What´s up in Glückstadt? - Greetings from the north!
This week all our teenagers in Glückstadt had a ecxited time with a lot of action and diferent challenges! In the following news we give you the opportunity to get to know more about the daily fun and struggle in our english camps!
Whats up in Glückstadt?!
24.10.2018 - Rain and strong winds stopped us from canoeing
The canoe ride, one of the main activities of the camp, should have been today but was annulled because of one of the typical autumn storms. The big ferries on the Elbe even closed, so paddling in a small boat would have been a bad idea, these were also the opinions of our guide and from the kids. Nonetheless some of them were brave enough to go on the dike in their free time and have a look at the forces of the nature in form of big waves and the risen water level. The canoe ride isn’t cancelled completely, the guide Ingo was kind enough to offer us another tour Thursday afternoon if the weather gets better.
We also continued with different cooperation games, one of them being to touch playing cards lying on the ground in a correct order. It sounds simple, but is very difficult with the specific rules, as the group discovered. After the second try they wanted to give up and we teamers were about to start the reflexion, the most important part in this kind of pedagogical exercises, but they decided to start over once again. With the last forces gathered together it went way better than before. Subsequently we proposed to do trust activities, beginning with different versions of a pendulum in small groups of three people, moving to trusting blindly that there is somebody behind them to catch them when they fall backwards but don’t know who it is exactly. The biggest bond of trust was shown, when some of the adolescents agreed to let themselves fall from a table and get caught by the hands from other group members. The initial fear was overcome and the joy in the eyes was highly visible.
25.10.2018 - Speaking English with foreigners in Hamburg
Opportunity to use the newly learned English skills and confidence!Today we took the train to go to Hamburg. We started with a look from the water by taking a ferry ride to get closer to the cranes loading containers and the Mary Poppins and Lion King musical stages. Following on we went for a walk around the Plaza of the Elbphilharmonie. The adolescents were, amongst other things, impressed by the longest escalator in Europe and took many pictures. We continued our sightseeing to the Speicherstadt where they were happy to be at the location where their childhood serie, “Pfefferkörner”, to whom they attach good memories, was filmed.
We moved on to the Mönkebergstraße and began the challenges of Hamburg. In the two groups from the camp Olympics the kids had to complete different tasks to gain points to exchange them for tokens for the casino night on our last evening. The tasks involved speaking to strangers coming from far away, so they needed to speak English. One group managed to change 15 cents against 2000 Indonesian rupees! They told us afterwards, that at first, they were overwhelmed and thought that the challenges would almost be impossible, but they realised that it wasn’t as hard as they thought it would be and they had a lot of fun! In their free time, after all the work was done, they went eating all together as a whole group. It is great to see a result of what the cooperation games are also responsible for.You would like to get more information about our english camps , contact us now! [email protected]
