The English Camp

On the 1st of July Alex, Hayden and I traveled up to Nakhon Sawan in order to get the train to Tori and Grace's school in Thae Rua.

Our day was going fine until we realised that the last train was at about 4 and our bus wouldn't get there in time. So, we had to quickly arrange out tuk tukk driver to drive us up in his car. Thankfully, we got there with plenty time to spare. The train was delayed, as usual. We met with Rhys, Dan and Sophie at the train station.

When we arrived in Thae Rua we put our bags in one of the teacher's cars and we walked through the market. Sadly, it started raining and the market started to pack up. So, we walked home. Halfway there, we got picked up in some teacher's cars.

At school we were shown to the ASEAN room where there were two pupils waiting for us amongst a pile of balloons.
Our first task of the camp was to blow up loads of balloons, each with a letter inside ready for a spelling game the next day. Thankfully, with all of us helping this didn't take very long.

The next day the camp started at 8AM. We all wore our yellow polo shirts that had been given to us as well as our nametags.
We sat with the students in the hall and eventually we introduced ourselves. Then we played the first game. We had each given Tori and Grace a fact about ourselves, we then all had to spread out and stand in a different place around the room. Tori and Grace would read the facts out one by one and the kids had to run to who they thought the fact belonged to. It was pretty fun!

Afterwards, us volunteers split off into different groups. I went with Hayden and Dan to run the treasure hunt.
In the treasure hunt activity the kids were split into four teams. Each team was given a riddle to solve about where the next clue was. They ran there, and read another riddle, and then another one. After the third riddle they had to figure out where the treasure (a tub of sweets) were.
This was so much fun to run, although a little tricky at first because we didn't know where the sweets were hidden either!
Also, a couple of times, the wrong team got to another team's sweets meaning the other team was left with no idea where their sweets were!

We usually had a few minutes to spare at the end of each rotation of kids, so we played lots of games of Duck, Duck, Goose!

After all groups had finished everyone re-convened back in the hall where we sang some songs. Obviously, the Cha Cha Slide came up as well as another song about bananas which I had been given the pleasure of singing into the microphone.
We then tried to do the challenge of sitting on each others laps in a circle. We tried to demonstrate this on stage with great difficulty and before we knew it all the kids were in one big circle trying to do it.
It was not completed, but we tried!!

At the end of the camp we had to choose out camp king and queen and then we got to do the fun job of throwing out sweets to the crowd!
Eventually, the camp finished and we all had to say goodbye to the kids who all waied us.

Of course we took lots of photos with them! We were also all given wonderful gifts by the staff at the school which was a fantastic surprise!






When everyone was leaving, a load of the kids stayed longer and took so many photos with us! They must've stayed for about 30 minutes after the camp finished!






That evening, we all went out for a meal with a couple of the teachers from the school! It was such an an amazing meal - with an omelette to die for (soooo buttery). Afterwards, I tasted the holy grail of ice cream - Thai tea flavour with little balls of jelly inside! It was amaaaaazing!!!!

Back, at the flat the others stuck on 'The Hunger Games' whilst I called my family who were all on holiday together in a 'cottage' in England. It was so great to talk to everyone, some of whom I haven't talked to since coming over here!


Overall, the camp was so amazing and fantastically planned by Tori and Grace. Apparently, this camp happens every year because last year's volunteers did the same thing!