School Camp - Naomi and Fiona

A couple of weeks ago we held our school camps. The junior students went to a place called Kirriom, Year 8 and 9 to Koh Kong and year 10 and above to Kep. ( Not that those place names mean anything to you.) However it did mean that Naomi and I were on camp together. We even had to share a room, as there were not enough rooms otherwise. Thankfully she was not perturbed by this in the slightest.

I directed this particular camp, which was masses upon masses of work... and that was after Graham (the camps coordinator) had set up the basic outline of the dates and made contact with the venues and service providers. It is very hard to find venues that will fit 40 people, and then even more difficult to afford them. The process involves going around in circles enough times to make you motion sick as you haggle, explain and querying over rooms, water quality, food, transport.... etc etc.

On our camp we visited a small safari world, waterfall, mangroves and the beach. I had organised a sand sculpture competition. In groups the students worked for over an hour on their designs. Naomi's group produced one of the finest entries I have ever seen. And the picture of this is below.

Camp is an important part of Hope School, it strengthens the school community and also gives students opportunities to undertake activities that they do not have access to, or could not usually afford. I really enjoyed seeing many students excited about seeing dolphins for the first time during our visit to the Koh Kong Safari World.

Fiona