my first
English camp!
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| Not Pictured: Mexico (North America) |
All ETA's in Malaysia are required to do 2 English camps during their time here. English camp can be essentially anything you would like it to be, as long as it uses/improves English. I had a lot of ideas for English camps but one seemed very appropriate for Language month at my school, 'Around the World camp'. This also played off of my love for traveling and my personal goal to travel the world.
I originally planned a camp for 90 students which somehow grew into a camp of 130 students! I invited 3 other schools as well as my own and had the wonderful help of ETA's from the state of Johor. The students were divided up into 6 of the 7 continents sorry Antarctica... You weren't invited to this party. Once they registered for camp they received a passport. Prior to camp I told my students to bring in a passport sized photo. The students were able to paste their passport photos inside the passport to make it more realistic. They also had a visa page where they had to visit all 6 continents to obtain a visa.
Quick Breakdown of the Continents::
Europe: European Jeopardy (famous landmarks)
Australia: Guess that Australian slang word
Asia: Food Word Scramble
North America: Capital Connect Four
Africa: African Animal Taboo
South America: Jigsaw puzzle
Once the students completed the activity at the station, then they could get a florescent visa sticker. Inside the passport was also 'Fast Facts' about the country within the continent and 'Quick Phrases'. I had Kazakhstan and couldn't pronounce any of the quick phrases haha! There was also an 'Autograph' page where they could get autographs from the visiting students as well as the ETA's that where helping with the camp. I had to give sooo many autographs that day but the students really seemed to enjoy asking around for autographs.
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| This is when I started thinking my smile muscles hurt... |
Highlights of the day were:
- Having a selfsie taken with a giant selfsie pole
- Amy making undi undi and fried chicken with corn meal instead of flour for me :)
- Berry Mentos
- Having fun with my students and seeing them have fun as well.
- Catching up with the other ETAs
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| Selfsie Pole shot. With students and the undergraduate teachers. |
ohhhh yeah, I put in a lot of hours for this camp to make it possible so did everyone in my language department. It was a very successful and smoothly run camp but it's also very VERY exhausting. I worked 8 hours straight on the day of camp, starting at 6:30 am to set up. But of course I couldn't have done without an amazing team of ETAs, my mentor and the English language department.
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