The First English Crazy Camp at a Temple!!!

Story by Atchara Simlee (Aom),

In the extremely hot month of March 2010, eight staff fully charged their energy to run a three-day English camp for seventy Matthayom 2 and 3 students of Choomchon Pueyhaudong School located in Lue Amnat, Amnat Charoen. The staff of this camp were Nok, Cherm or Roxy,Bird or Monica, Pat, Ann, Ton,Yok, and Aom, a camp coordinator.

It was the second time that English Crazy Club was invited by a kindly beautiful English teacher, Kroo Jiraporn to do the English Camp for her students. Last time, the camp took place at the school for two days. For this camp, the location was changed to another place from the school to a huge beautiful temple called Wat Pho Sila. At the same time, the school area was used for a so-called arts and music camp.

At the first day we taught English through four crazy rotations; ‘Directions’ by Bird and Pat, ‘Shopping’ by Aom and Yok, ‘Fantastic Fruit’ by Nok and Ann and ‘Fancy Zoo’ Cherm and Ton. We all had to work a little bit harder to cheer up our campers continuously as they are teenagers and seemed to be shy to follow crazy activities provided by Crazy Staff. Anyway, to encourage the campers was just a piece of cake. They began to get used to our crazy songs and games from the very first hour.
The next day was more fun because in the afternoon we led our lovely campers to do walk rally. We run four bases filled with informative and fun games. The afternoon activities were full of laughers and smiles though the weather was so hot. Everyone played games, sang songs and danced crazily without any complaints because one of the bases had to do with throwing balloons contained water and we all totally got wet. What a fun time we had!

The last day, we played some games in the morning and let the campers enjoy a collaborative activity, newspaper game, in the afternoon. They were challenged by this game a lot. This game allowed them to create many fantastic items with only one piece of newspaper. At the end they came up with fantastic different items, based on staff’s instructions; a big mat that every member can stand on, an Eifel tower model, the biggest belly, the longest rope and the smallest ball.

In evening of each day, there was no night activity. We were free and had time to observe the art and music camp in the school. More than that Pat, one of the staff was asked to show her beautifully impressive voice by singing “Zombie” song. We must admit her talent and everyone in the hall gave her a big round of applause.


The camp ended. All staff and campers said goodbye. They might not see each other again, all good time they had during the camp will not fade from their minds though.