Closing Ceremony: Thank You!

The superactive grandmother of one of our campers was happy to thank everybody in the Summer Camp for their wonderful cooperation. The children's open eyes and their laughter showed that the Summer Camp turned out a success.

Closing Ceremony: Certificates of Appreciation

The Director and the manager presented the cerificates of appreciation - signed by David Fay, English Language Officer (U.S. Embassy Moscow) and Vasiliy K., Director of Institute of Humanities - to the campers.
Each team came out one by one. The campers also received CD with photos depicting sunny moments of their life in the Summer Camp.
Then the counselors,media team, teachers and the school authorities were awarded the cerificates.

Closing Ceremony: Books to Authors

The Director of the Summer Camp Vassili Ivanovich K.presented the books to their authors.

Closing Ceremony: Blue Bikini Bottom's Travelling

Blue Bikini Bottom Team also travelled around the world. As Bossia, the camp manager, noticed, there was an enigma that the audience is still trying to decode.

Closing Ceremony: Green Irish Emerald's Lessons

Green Irish Emerald parodied the teachers and their lessons. That's another me and my huge list of words!
Those are smiles of the parodied authorities.

Closing Ceremony: Yellow Submarine's Legend

Yellow Submarine discovered a new version of the captain James Cook's story.

Closing Ceremony: Orange Cheetos' Travelling Story

The Orange Cheetos travelled around the world as the shaman advised them to do so. The King Chester visited all our five English-speaking countries.

Closing Ceremony: Red Brats Travelling Story

The Red Team started the wonderful talent show.

They produced a fairy tale with Baba Yaga, the dance lezghinca, Kalmyk musical instrument and the unknown tribe.

Closing Ceremony: Words of the Day

The Powerpoint presentation "Words of the Day" proved once more that our campers are great talents! Only some of the illustrations were shown.

Closing Ceremony: Songs through Pictures

The Summer Camp listened to three more songs and watched splendid illustrations made by the campers at the lessons "Ireland Through Comps". Just one e-picture from Mergen A. (Yellow Submarine)!
"Molly Malone"

The campers sang along here too. Then the rest of the pictures will be published.

Closing Ceremony: Singing Along

The closing ceremony started with the mottoes and cheers of the teams. Then the floor was given to Galina V.Z. The campers sang along the songs of Kylie Minogue.

Keeping good memories

So, our Summer Camp is over. Think, it was a great success, this was my first experience in summer camp and I really enjoyed it. Someone said today at the closing ceremony that the eyes of the kids when they were working together or dramatising something on the stage were worth coming to the Camp. They really were! The kids loved what they were doing. Thank you, Summer Camp!

Debate "How to Make the Summer Camp a Success?"

Our manager Bossia organized this debate as a valuable feedback on effectiveness of the camp work.
At first the campers, counselors and teachers were given three pieces of paper: 'blue' denoted 'yes', 'pink' - 'no' and 'yellow' - 'not sure'.Bossia and Mike were reading some statements and everybody raised the card with their answer.
During the second part two leaders were chosen inside each team and the discussion started.
The counselors and teachers made a separate group.

Then those leaders reported on the group's suggestions. "Invite exchange students from English-speaking countries", "Going outside to the park", "20-minute Lessons","More communication with other groups", etc. Everything was filmed.

We are proud of our Access graduates speaking fluently while dicsussing and reporting the results!

Teen Film

We watched the film Bring It On: In It to Win It. Ashley Benson as Carson and Michael Copon as Penn were a nice pair.

Karaoke Contest

So many songs, so much laugh...Our counselors have done their best!

The counselors offered to start with the team singing. After drawing lots:
Red Brats "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
Orange Cheetos "YMCA"
Yellow Submarine "Yellow Submarine"
Blue Bikini Bottom "Since you've been gone"
Green Irish Emerald "Oops, I did it again"

Then a solo singing followed.
Orange Luaba M. "Only You"
Yellow Danzan L. "Black or White'
Blue Altana D. "I will always love you"
Green Jenya B. "Waiting For Tonight"
Red Lera B. "Summer Moved On"

The jury - Galina V.Z., Tatiana A., Valentina E. - decided that everybody was a winner.
The Funniest Singer Danzan
The Most Professional Singer Altana
The Most Arttistic Singer Jenya
The Best Dancing Groupe Red

Sports Day: Green Win Pink Prize

Our counselors organized playing volleyball. Green Irish Emerald has won a large cake! The pink cake with the campers around it was being photographed by several photographers as if it were a Final Cup! Green campers felt so proud!

The Previous Week of Our Camplife

So, the third week of our camplife has begun. It is so fast, guess, because it's so eventful. So was the previous week: Indigenous people's stories dramatised by the kids were, I think, a great success! The actors were fantastic and really enjoyed what they were doing on the stage. Hope that coming events are going to be as colourful as this one. Way to go!

Around English-speaking countries... England

The teams got two tasks. Both tasks had time limitations.

1. They should put the names of the English counties in the alphabetical order as fast as possoble.
2. The team should create a story about two pictures. The funnier story is, the better it is.

All the stories were great!
But the story of the Yellow Submarine Team was the funniest and the most interesting!

Stories of Indigenous people of English-speaking countries

Prize Goes To...

Big and smaller pizzas were the delicious prizes! I think everybody got hungry after travelling around five countries for only one hour!