January 13

Thailand is a delegation of the day today.  We woke our friends up with Thai music.  Pon was not with us this morning because today is his day-off.  We had catering for breakfast so we didn’t have to wash dishes. J

We had our flag-time.  Then for breakfast, we asked questions about Thailand in order to let them have breakfast.  Our first activity was making, actions or movements and new words to communicate. We really liked Samurai, Ha, So, Go, No, game.  

Pon and IB came back to join us for lunch.  Then we had siesta and JC shop. We continued with a Auction activity.  We were divided into groups and given money to buy things.  We had to discuss in groups to buy things.

Dinner then we had Finnish National Night.  We really enjoyed the play they had.

For lullaby we sang You’ve Got a Friend, Lemon Tree, Can You Feel the Love Tonight then We are the World.

January 12

Today was a fun day at KiKi RiKi village! We spent the morning working on a bridge-building challenge. We started with small groups and a few items. Our goal was to build a bridge together using just a few materials. We has to build several bridges, each with a bigger gap to cross. We learned hoy hard it can be to work as a team. We also realized the importance of re-using materials because all of the items udes were "garbage". We promised to try harder to recycle so we are not being so wasteful.

In the afternoon, we were excited to find out who our secret "monito" was. We sang the monito song and gave our monito a present and a hug.

It was fun to find out who our secret friend had been for the last week.

Finally we enjoyed Germany's national night. We learned a lot about life in Germany. We enjoyed the story of little red tiding hood. Everyone loved the dances and enjoyed the jello snack. We had a great time as delegation of the day!

USA Delegation.

January 11

At 3:20 pm the first kids came bcak to the village from their homestay. The las once came around 5 PM. They all had a wonderful homestay, but they were also very happy to be back.

We want to thank all the hostfamilies that made this weekend the best homestay ever!

Durin the evening activity we were painting our camp T-Shirts and started the Beep, Baap, Boop game.

We had a blast!

At lullabies we sang: Donna Donna, Linger, Leaving on a jetplane, Let it be, Time of your life and Wonderwall

That's all for now!

Best Regards
The Swedish Team

Oscar, Joel, Amanda, Alicia and Ida

January 10

KIDS IN HOME STAY!!

THEY DID HAVE FUN!!

STAFF

January 9

We woke everyone up by saying good morning (godmorgen), and what a wonderful day (villan underbar dag) in swedish.

During the morning we had a rehearsal for open day then it was time to put everyghin on our national table and put on our national costume. It was fun to see everyones outfits and what they brought form their country.

Visitors arrived around 2 PM and started to walking around. There was a lot of people and lots of children.

When everyone was seated in Horcones we went on with our national presentacion and at the end everyone sang the camp song, here comes the sun. It was also great to see everyone join in the CISV-song.

The staff then read out who was going on their homestay together and what a family they were going with. Everyone was happy about who they were going with. When the kids were gone it was time for the leaders to leave the village for leaders weekend.

WWe all had a great day!

Best regards from the Swedish delegation:
Alicia, Amanda, Joel, Oscar and Ida.

January 8

Today the JC’s were the awesome delegation of the day!

In the morning, we woke everyone up energetically with loud music and whistles.

Then we rushed out all the kids in their PJs we gave them a morning aerobic workout. The kids didn’t think it was very funny but we did.

For the day activities we played fax machine, where we had to communicate without talking, through actions and drawings.

We also played bang, which required quick thinking and lots of energy.

For another activity we played Traffic Light, which is an icebreaker that was really fun.

For the evening activity the JCs and Staff planned a games night, with lots of different stations for the kids. At each station there were different games, like pictionary, taboo, charades, cards, and guess the character on your forehead.

And at night, during lullabies, we had a special surprise for the Costa Rican JC, Vero, because it is her birthday tomorrow. The staff brought in a typical Costa Rican band and a cake, and we had a pyjamas party in our in our lullabies room.

It was a great way to a great day.

Love from JC land,

Vero, Isabel, Nash, Beth, Fabi, and Jesus 

January 7

Today Norway was delegation of the day. We woke everybody up with Norwegian music.

In the first activity we played the human knot. The first time it went really well, but the second time we struggled to make a circle. We also played a mingle game where we had to form different groups as the leaders called them out.

In the second activity we played Fantasy island. The children split into six groups and the leaders were one group. We made up fantasy countries with map, flag, greetings, money, national costume and 3 rules. The leaders' country was the coolest :)

In the third activity we played a game called Chaos. We ran around the camp site to do tasks in order to move on a game board. It was a lot of fun.

In the evening Guatemala had their national night. They showed us beautiful pictures from their country, danced a traditional dance and tought us how to play Lotería in Guatemalan style. It was a lot of fun. We also got a very nice picture frame as scrap book and they gave us snack and candy from their country. Thank you very much Guatemalan delegation for a very special and memorable national night!

Today was another great day in this fantastic camp. We love it here!

Best wishes from the Norwegian delegation.

January 6

Amusment Park Day!

The delegation of Guatemala woke the village up with a song of Ricardo Arjona, which they sang.

We got ready, grab our lunch boxes and got in the bus. On our way we sang anything that would come to our minds and had so much fun.

At the park we went to reollercoaster, the disco ride, bumper cars, water rides (pacuare and reventazón) sky master,. pulpo (spinin ships), pedal boates and more some ate ice-cream and others pizza.

We came back to the camp site, had dinner and got ready for lullabies. We were all very tired after so much fun, so we went direct to bed.

Guatemala Delegation

January 5

Today was Great Britain's day to be delegation of
the day. We had a fun and exciting day starting with running games like
cat and mouse! The sun was shining so bright that we had to have
several water breaks. We also played a game where we had to take all
our shoes off and mix them up and then put on random odd shoes and try
and find the pair, we were suprisingly good at it.

Later we
all drew what the CISV song meant to us and learnt all the words and
the meanings behind the lyrics, we'll never forget the song now! ;)

The
dinners have been so tasty so we were looking forward to having dinner,
we had a mexican style feast with tortillas and beans, rice and cheese.
Everyone is enjoying the food so much, we are so lucky to have
fantastic caterers, where we even get pudding!!

In the evening
we got to watch the film UP which was made even better by all the
popcorn we got. The film was very funny and was about an explorer
venturing into South America.

Because it was our day we got to
choose the songs for lullabies, Juanda is turning into quite the
musician and can play most songs on the guitar. We chose 'time of your
life' by greenday and father and son by cat stevens.

All in all we had a brilliant end to the day and slept well,

Until next time,

Lots of love from

Krystal, Rachael, Tom and George and Corinna xxx

January 4

1st activity:
we sat in groups of our rooms and drew a flower with leaves. we had to find things we have in common with someone or all the people in our room. we put the flower on our doors.

2nd:
clock game: we had a piece of paper with a clock on it. every hour we made an appointment with someone different. then we had to talk about a certain topic with all of our appointments when the leaders called the time.

3rd:
each delegation drew the outline of their country on a piece of paper. then we handed the poster to the next delegation and they were supposed to draw or write down what they know of each country. each delegation presented their own map and what all the others wrote down afterwards. it was interesting to see how many stereotypes or wrong facts were on them

night activity:
norways national night.
they showed us a movie, a play and we tasted delicious food. Takk!

German Delegation

January 3

The day was sunny but windy. as usual. For us, Finnish people it is the weather is every day warm, because in Finland it's winter now and it has been even -25°C during our village here in Costa Rica.

First activity we had was catch the scart. There were fun ways to catch the scarf, like piggy back, two people carrying one person or just one person runnning from each group kids really enjoyed it, after that we had a water break, and we really needed it.

The second activity we had was "hudadada" where you have to run and try to catch as many people as possible in one breath. That was not so easey, becuase most of the people were greedy and they didn't want to go back.

After that we had winking game. What a nice game where you need to be awake and react quickly. The lunch was good, as usual and after that we had siesta, and at least some of the kids were resting.....

As a afternoon activity we had the acting out "Cinderella" in different ways. Kids were enjoying and they really gave the best of them!
As an evening activity we saw Thailands National Night! we say many interesting cideos from Thailand, for example videos about Thai food, water festival and tsunami. Thank you THailand the National Night was unforgetable!

Finland Delegation

January 2

Today the Costa Rican delegation woke us up with  wistles, horns and carnaval music…boy did they woke us up!!!  After having breakfast and working in our cleaning groups we went to our first activity of the day. We started our day with the pony song and afterwards we were splited into three teams and we  played  a game were we had to pass a sponge over water. We had so much fun! Afterwards we played torpedo it was so entertaining and the best part  was that we got wet!  Then leaders and JC´s surprised us with a waterfight with water balloons and a hose. We were all soaking wet! It was awesome we had so much fun! Once the water fight was over we changed to warm clothes. We then went to the dinning room to play fruit salad. With this game we were able to learn stuff about each other it was really nice and at the same time have lots of fun.  When the activity was over  we went to lunch, we had pasta with meatballs and caramel icecream…yummy! After having a delicious lunch, we had siesta time! Later came one of the best parts of the day…JC SHOP!! Then we went to our third activity, we were splited into four teams. We had to line up from tallest to smallest and youngest to oldest.  We also played the hat game were we had to put the hat on the person whose name was called he or she called another name.  Then we had a surprise from the Costa Rican delegation…PIÑATAS!!  There were two piñatas one for boys and one for girls. We had a great time and we ended up with lots of candies...yay!! Then we had shower time. Once we all had a shower we had delegation time. Afterwards we headed up to the dinning hall to have dinner. For the last activity of the day we played dress the leader. We had to dress a leader with our roommates. They looked so silly and funny!! They had to walk on a run way since the activity was actually a fashion show and the winner was IB who was dressed as a disco theme. After that we had lullabies, we sang we are the world, one, leaving on a jet plane and more. It was an amazing day!!  As we say here in Costa Rica…

                                                                      PURA VIDA & BUENAS NOCHES!!!

January the 1

Canada was the delegation of the day.

Since we had a New Years eve party the night before we didn't wake up until 10:30 We then had a typical Costa Rican brunch which consisted of Gallo Pinto tortilla, cheese, eggs, fried plantain. After brunch we had our cleaning groups followed by free time/sista. It was the first time that the JC shop opened and everyone was happy about this!

We then had an activity of the Mickey Mouse Game and the Card Game which were really fun. The delegation time was at a normal schedule time and it was nice to talk with the other delegates. After delegation time was supper which was consisted of pizza and sallad! The pizza was huge but very good. We asked the group questions about Canada to decide the order in which peaople got to eat.

After supper we had the Costa Rican national night the delegation had the room nicely decorated and they wore typical costumes. The national night consisted of a video about Costa Rica and about each of the delegates and some traditional dances. The last part of the national night was to sample some Costa Rican cookies candies and fudge. After the national night we went to lullabies and chose 4 songs. The songs were Yesterday, You've got a friend, Can you feel the love tonight, Let it be. After that we all went to bed for a good night rest.

Canada Delegation

December the 31

Last day of 2009!!! Brazil was the delegation of the day!
In the morning we played mini banana, shark and we made our partiner's place mats.
In the afternoon we had hospital,
Since was the last day of the year, during the evening we had the oportunity to get to know how each of the countries celebrates new year!
In Norway we celebrated knocking in some doors, singing christmas songs and asking for candies. We also had to dress up a bit.
In Thailand the children wash the elder peoples hands,a symbol of respect and the older people bless them. We did it, the leaders and staffs were representing the olders.
In Brazil we celebrated singing a song, wearing white clothes to represent peace and jumping the 7 waves, making a wish to each jumped wave (we´ve got blue blankets for the wave ;) ).
In Canada and in Great Britain we sang a typical new year's song.
In Germany, Sweden and Finland they melted a metal (tin!) and put in cold water to see the staff's future. In germany they also give little toys to wish luck.
For Guatemala' s celebration we watched a video with their fire works and they also had fake champain.
Isabel, our JC sang a tipical Philipine's new year's song.
USA brought a video that show us how it's  the New Year in New York city.
To celebrate Peru' s we went running around the campsite with luggages ´to represent we are going to travel in the year that is comming. For Peru's and Costa Rica's celebration we had to wear something yellow to represent good luck and something red to represent love.
We got a lot of party stuffs, like hat, neckless, masks to celebrate the new year's here, in Costa Rica. We had a greeeeeat party and everybody had a lot of fun, dancing a lot!
During the whole day we counted the last 10 seconds of each country, starting with Thailand at eleven am and finishing with Costa Rica at midnight.
We had a great 2009 ending and a wonderful 2010 beggining!!!

Brazil Delegation

Some Pictures....

New years eve.......

Limbo!!

 Costa Rican national night....

 

 

 

December the 29th - First Day

Our very first day started at 3:20 pm on December the 29th, when the USA delegation arrived to the camp site. Leaders, JC’s and Staff were so eager for the arrival of the kids and there they were.  All delegations began arriving to the camp, almost two hours had passed when we received the last of the 48 kids, the Brazilian girls.

We then started our village with some energizers: Che-che-cure, Moose and the Pony Song. We saw how motivated the kids are, and all the energy they had.

Our first dinner was wonderful, and we had a special celebration for Joao, a Brazilian delegate whose birthday was on the 27th, but as a family we celebrated it with everyone today.

Then we started getting to know each other a bit more, with the night activity, where all delegations, including the staff and the JC’s introduced themselves.

CISV spirit was present when we had our flag time, we put the flag down and said goodnight.

Just relax take it easy……some lyrics from the songs we sang in our first lullabies.

And finally it was time to go to bed….good night Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite ...

The Staff.