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Monday, July 12

From Ale’ Smith:
This is my second year doing Vacation Language School. I am helping Sarah Landeene with Character and Crafts. The first day started off with the opening ceremony where I was reunited with some of the kids from last year. It was a joyful experience! Afterwards Sarah, our translator, and I went to our room and prepared the crafts. Our first rotation came in, they were pretty rowdy! But it’s the first day, so I think they’ll calm down (hopefully tomorrow.
We made verse books. Then Sarah taught a lesson about friendship and loving one another, and then I explained the next craft.
We had a little break, then our next rotation came. We did the verse books, the lesson, and the craft.
Once we finished with the second group we had our lunch.
Then we had our last group, they were the youngest (and cutest . We did the same routine as before.
All together I believe the first day of Vacation Language School 2010 went pretty well. I’m excited about the new relationships I’ve made with some of the kids and I hope and I pray we will have an eternal impact on these children’s lives.
From Brittany Sutton:
this is my first year at vacation language school and so far i love it! i’m so excited to be here helping and forming relationships with the kids. today i already gave out my email to this little girl in my third group and her name was ellen.  i’m helping stephen landeene with character and crafts on the red team.
class went real smooth and all the kids were well behaved. stephen taught the lesson and i explained the two crafts. the first craft was the verse book and then the two book marks.
after the three rotations the whole red team had a meeting in the lunchroom. i must of played rock paper scissors ten times with the kids sitting around me. i got to know this girl named cat and two boys, bill and evan. bill wanted to arm wrestle me so i let him.  i gave a little mercy then smashed his hand down. then evan wanted to try and i showed him a little mercy too. they couldn’t lose to me so they teamed up and put all their hands on my one hand, but i was still stronger. it was really fun and i enjoyed spending that time with them and forming a relationship with them. today was a great first day and i can’t wait to come back tomorrow and see everyone again.

From Zachariah J. Cushman:
Today was the first day of VLS for me. This is also my first day of missions work in China. I have been preparing for this job for a few weeks in  advanced, and it has come together very well. I’m technically  assisting Charles by filming and  helping with setup. I am also a group leader for the “Green 2″. I met all my kids today at opening ceremonies and we listened to several opening speeches and we soon headed off to our exercise time. I was really excited to have the time first because i had been wanting to learn the students personalities. We managed to talk the girls into playing basketball with  the boys. We started off with two teams, but it was hard to keep track of what the teams were, it ended up being every man for himself. The kids would pass the ball to a leader and expect a score. We went to craft and character class next. I enjoyed watching the kids work, and i tried to learn some new Chinese words. We did some other things today like lunch, english, and closing ceremonies, but i think the most significant thing I did today was to get  know some wonderful kids.