Day 2 started with an unusual kind of
gymnastics. We did exercises related to our names and we learnt the names of all campers very well! After making sure we remembered the names of the campers, we started playing the game of “Secret
Friends“. Each camper (including the tutors :) drew the name of one other camper who is going to be “a secret friend”
throughout the camp, which means that we have to show special attention to the special friend - but in a secret way :)
After breakfast, we did the Baltic States Knowledge Survey. We worked in national groups and collected information about the other two countries. We asked questions about different aspects of teenagers’ life and then summarized the survey results on posters.
In the afternoon, we had a special guest: Justin Tomczyk, Public Affairs
Officer, US Embassy Vilnius, who shared his life story with us and helped us learn a lot of interesting facts
about the United States. Justin comes from Chicago with 2.5 mln. people of
different nationalities who speak 40 different languages. Though they are
different in many ways, the people in Chicago have common values and understanding
that tolerance and positive thinking is the best way to overcome the differences. Then, together with Justin we did a few interesting activities about the U.S. (wordsearch of the names of states, a quiz and a picture
card hunt) and learnt more about the country of the guest.
After dinner we created our room posters
to represent our small "camp homes" of fairly different yet amazingly similar
campers!
The day ended at the campfire by sharing the
impressions of the day and role-playing a story called “Magic Forest”. It was great fun and we laughed a lot!
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