Teacher

Last summer I had the amazing opportunity to be a camp counselor for Liggett Universities summer camp. Over the summer I was rewarded with the gift of teaching these kids how to swim, clean up our classroom, play games, fire safety, and create crafts for their parents. One of the best experiences I had with my kids was when we had to joust. We had the kids squat on a poly dot and face their opponent. They held onto a rope and had to pull their opponent off their poly dot. As the game progressed we told them that there was a trick to win this game and we noticed that some of the kids had figured it out, but others did not understand. We taught the kids that if you hold the rope tight and then let go of the slack, the opponent would fall off. It was amazing to see the campers reactions to the trick. It was a small lesson, but it opens a new world for the kids. They can see that there is more than one way to solve a problem. For jousting, the campers saw that they did not have to pull their opponent off, they could just make them fall off.