This Week

This week was my last week volunteering. There were two of the kids from my earlier week in the programs I did - "Magical Modeling Clay" (used Plasticine and oven-bake polymer clay) and "Papier Mache and Plaster Casting" (you know those treacherous masks you HAVE to do in grade 6? These people voluntarily did them!)

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The picture to the right is what the polymer clay creations would have looked like, if the kids weren't 5-9 years old.  Instead, we had circles and smiley faces, but they were just as good!

The most adorable thing is that one of the kids, named Cameron (ironic, eh?) made me a necklace!

Stuck.

My first step inside the building was a positive one. Maybe, things were not as bad in here as they seemed. At least to hallways were clean, and the building was nice. You could hear the air rushing around through the vents above and below, and that was calming. The halls were a dark grey, and a little dimly lit, but stairwells had floor-to-ceiling windows, as did every classroom. Somehow, the glass in the windows was impossible to see through, and blended in perfectly to the rest of the building on the outside, but in here it was as clear as day.


The room I was in was nicely decorated as well. Hundreds of sayings in all different languages lined the walls, and the desks were clean and comfortable. Kids stood around the room, awkwardly picking at their uniforms as teachers ran around the room with forms to sign and papers to hand out.

Busy, busy, busy

All of this week, from 9:00 to 3:00, I've been volunteering at a local kids day-camp.  Each camp is half a day, so I helped out with two camps.

My first camp, in the morning, was from 9:00 to 12:00, Monday to Friday.  It was a sewing/fleece creatures camp, and the kids got to make animals out of fleece (soft fabric) and stuff them.  There were 8 kids, from 5-11.  They made butterflies, ducks and Pokemon characters.

They were so adorable!

My afternoon class was even younger, with kids either 5, 6 or 7.  They painted, coloured, and dress up to be

Empyrean: 29/332

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The Horseshoe falls - Canada's side of the falls :)

I finished chapter one!  Chapter two seems a big too big to be tackled at the moment, but right now, let's all bask in the glory that I finished chapter one of Empyrean.


:)