Camp Tradition

Today we each taught two sessions for our individual classes. We could see that practice is underway for the program to be presented on Friday evening. Then we joined together in the “Big Room” for presentations. Sara shared a PowerPoint presentation prepared by her second grade class that helped us all learn about plants and animals that live in Arizona.  The students were highly amazed that people in Arizona do not put fences around their homes. They also couldn’t figure out why people used rocks instead of grass for the front lawns until Sara explained one doesn’t have to water rocks. Students had many other follow-up questions for Sara.  Lesson 4 included presentations about New York City and Toronto, provided by Diana and Keshav.

After obiad, we spent some time with the Polish English teachers planning the special stations we will have for Lessons 3 and 4 on Friday. In the afternoon, Sara, Lynn, and Lori went to Siedlce to do some shopping. They returned by train just before kolecja.

The students’ evening program was the traditional camp wedding ceremony. The desk for the wedding ceremony was decorated and placed before the mirrors left behind by dance camp. This made a beautiful scene for the weddings. Six couples exchanged vows which included promises to cheer at futbol games for the grooms or dance together at any future camp discos. Cheers arose when the evening program director announced it was time for the wesele.  Observation revealed, however, that the beautiful brides had already lost their husbands, boys enjoying other activities already such as futbol.

In the late evening I mentioned to one of the Polish English teachers that he had missed the weddings. He laughed and said, “I’ve been to so many. It’s a Polish camp tradition.” So I guess we learned something about Polish culture!