Robin Hood (or something like it)

I've been helping to supervise archery for this week's camp, so I've dubbed myself the Robin Hood of the camp. Unfortunately (or very fortunately depending on your perspective) I left my green tights at home. It's a pretty fun job though, despite the communication problems and possibility of getting shot with an arrow. The kids do a pretty good job; Elisi is the leader of archery (also the worship leader for the camp and the church, and a very hard worker), and so he explains how it works to the children, and then he and I are there to make sure they're doing it right. The first day went great and the kids really understood. The second day was a bit more interesting.

We have 2 targets with 4 kids shooting at them, and so Elisi and I work with two kids each. On the second day, every time I would turn my back I'd be saying, "Yo yo yo! (No no no!)," or, "Prit! (Wait!)," because inevitable the kid would think they had it all figured out but have some glaring mistake. It was fun though and no one has been hurt. Today, both Kurt and Lisa came to archery as well as our fellow American, Jordan, and with two of the Albanians, we had one person per archer. Afterwards, when the kids were gone, we took out the more powerful
bows and stepped back a little to have some fun ourselves. All in all, it went well.

The food has taken a small dive now that the cooks are cooking for over 150, but I'm still happy with it. The other night we had a type of egg soup that scared the rest of the team. They've all been looking at the menues to know what it is we're eating, so I figure that they scared themselves just by thinking about it too much. I thought it tasted like nothing at all, so I ended up eating Megan's serving as well. We're definitely eating well though, and they have fantastic fruit. None of the fruit here is available in the off season like it is in the US, so everything you eat is recently ripe.

There are 5 camps, each seperated by different ages, and so this week is the youngest camp, the next 3 will be a step up in age, and the last will be the oldest of them all. I think the current age group is 8 or 9 to 11 or 12 years old, and they're pretty fun, but a bit hard headed sometimes. As I mentioned, that could make archery hard at times, but still, they're good kids. We have a staff meeting everyday after lunch and one of the team leaders was saying that his kids at one point in the day wanted to pray rather than play, so everyone is encouraged by their spirits.

Overall, we're a little tired, but in a good way. We're all ready to go to sleep at the end of the day, and we can't wait for meals. It'll be interesting to see how things work out next week, though.