Pleasantly Peaceful Middle Schoolers

Camp starts at 10am. We had 2 registered middle schoolers for this week of camp as of last Friday. At 9:50am this morning 4 kids had already shown up. Not too long after 10am we had 16 kids! By lunch time we had 19 middle and high school campers. Our team was ecstatic! The ratio of boys to girls was about equal. We decided to split them into two groups (guys & girls)and have them rotate similar to the style we laid out last week. The whole day felt very peaceful. Several of the teachers and volunteers and I were a little apprehensive about this group of kids. Everyone gave us the impression that they would be rough, rude and rebellious. They were pretty much the opposite. Of course, there were a few kids who liked to be the center of attention, but overall everyone was very well behaved. We have added one new thing to the camp since the kids are older. They will be designing and making their own t-shirts for the performance this week. Tomorrow we will see how everything goes!