Thung Sawang Camp, Srisaket

How could nine staff deal with more than 150 fully energetic kids in the sweltering March days? The answer to this question is to be 'It's not easy', but it would never be too difficult for us to carry it off. Impressively, another bang-up job was archieved by the nine super staff in the Thong Sawang Camp on the 17 and 18 March.

Thung Sawang is a small school, hiden in a rural part of Sri Rattana district, Srisaket. To get into the village, a small pick-up truck carried us in the narrow dirt road through a huge paddy field. When we got to the school, before a warm greet from the school teachers, we met up with a shelter, attached to the buliding with many chairs, neatly arranged. Nobady told us that it was where we are going to have the 150 campers sing and dance, but we knew at once what it was for. After the school teacher's confirmation, we suddenly knew that we were not going to have the kids play "Deng Dung-Deng Darng" and "Dragons go through the cave" there.

When the morning came, the kids were sitting on those neatly arranged chairs with no-idea faces. Max, a Pratom 5 student, told us that it was his first time, participating in the English camp. That's why he was specially excited to meet up with the staff. After the introduction song-''Hello! How Do You Do'', the staff bombarded the kids with fun from the Crazy dances, songs and games. No matter how much songs and dances they did, the kids did not seem to run out of energy. Late at night, they were still actively dancing and singing and asking for more........while the staff were altogether fatigued.

Natchanicha Guerdpunya or Nong Cake told us that she was very excited knowing that she and her friends would learn English with the English Crazy staff. A 14 years old, who have already participated in the English camp for two times also made us smile when she shew us the distinctions between our Crazy activities and the other camps'. "I like this camp even more because it is more fun. It is more fun because I have danced and sung songs and played games. I like this kind of activities.

Though the Crazy games and songs with dances, we always hope to have campers inspired to love learning English more and we finally brought them around in our goal.

''Before coming to the English camp, I did not like English at all, but now I feel like I love English more than in the past'' said Cake.

''I would like friends who never join the English to try once because it is very helpful in learning English and in our daily life, too.

After the camp, none of the staff refused that we were totally worn out and none rejected that we had a lot of fun, friends, and a lot of unexplainable things from this camp, too. The party finally broke up at noon. All staff did not forget to give a very big thank to all Ajarns who took a very good care of us. The camp came to the end with impression and smiles (happy tears, too)

Till the time

Geng