Camp Visit

Had a great time with the Bowers boys earlier this week going out to the site where the camp is.  So far it is fairly primitive, but I feel like theres a lot of potential.  We just spent the night one night and talked about some of the possibilities of the site and some activities we could do when campers come.  We are planing our first camp for next weekend, the 21-22.  So the next week will be a lot of preparation.

Today I spent some time researching how we could construct a good climbing wall and what would go into it.  We are planning on building one soon, as well as getting a boat so that rather than driving an hour to the site we could take campers there in a boat up the river, which would be a lot more adventurous and cool.

On our way back from the campsite, we went looking for one of my friends from school, Erin, who is doing a 6 month internship in Mozambique.  All I knew is that she was living in a town called Massaca, which is fairly close to the camp.  So on our way home we detoured and went to find her.  After asking about 10 different people and following bits of directions we finally found the ‘white girl’.  She was shocked to see a familiar face.  Where she is living, no one speaks English, everyone speaks shungan and some Portuguese.  It was fun to surprise her.

Jim and Cory with weapons

Me cutting some sugarcane with Cory

View of the river right by the camp

Up a tree that will probably soon have a rope swing