Tennis camp was a HOT one.  I was only able to work the first day of it because I worked the next day.  I know a little about tennis, I played when I was younger but I was still pretty rusty.  Camp was only two hours so nothing super eventful happened.  I taught the youngest kids the basics of tennis and how to use their forehand and their backhand.

The fourth of July was another crazy day for us.  We started setting up around 7am, and then I made posters for donations for next years fireworks.  All of this took until about 10:30 and then we had a break until 2.  From 2-4 Lyndsey and I sat and collected donations from people as they pulled into the park after that we had a short break and my friends were cooking out at the park so I grabbed a bite to eat with them and then went back to working all the games that were going on.  When all the games were done I was able to relax and enjoy the fireworks.

I wasn't able to stay at world camp for very long because I had to work that day.  I had some junior counselors there and I got them started and made sure they knew everything that needed to be done and explained how to do everything and then had to leave.  

The next day was a PLAY day at apple jack park.  It was relatively uneventful because we had 4 kids show up and we had to end it early because the weather got really bad.

Today's Camp was world camp.  It was a little difficult because we had to teach them about new cultures and things like that.  I researched a bunch of games for them to play like Chinese tag and calling all cars, we did things like going on hikes and things like that. We also did crafts and face paint to start the day off.  They get a snack around 10 or 10:30 depending on how things work out. Around 11:30 or 12:00 they'll have lunch and they'll play a few more games and then at 2 we would take them to the community pool until their parents arrived to pick them up at 4.

I was so excited to do this camp this week! I am most comfortable teaching things I already know about and with soccer I have 18 years of experience.  Throughout the week I taught kids the basics of soccer, how to pass, how to shoot, and the rules so they could scrimmage.  We played a lot of sharks and minnows this week too.  So far I think this has been my favorite experience because it's something I am passionate about and I feel like I am actually teaching them something. I also learned about being more flexible.  Kids weren't always as advanced for the drill I wanted to do as they needed to be and they also would get bored with some of the things I wanted to teach them so I had to make a few last minute changes.

Fresh out of baseball camp and headed right over to the PLAY day.  It was cold, raining, and I was already tired.  There were maybe 15 kids at this play day. Andria Marques was in charge of the PLAY days.  She works for Seneca County Soil and Water and helped kids learn about keeping the environment clean as well as recycling through park programs and other programs throughout the community.  For this PLAY day, she had the kids clean up the trash in the park for a few minutes, then we did some crafts,one was a coaster made out of a CD, and to end it the kids played "renewable and non-renewable resource" jenga.

I can't even describe how nervous I was for this week.  I know close to nothing about baseball and here I am having to coach a baseball camp... I didn't even make it past t-ball when I was four.  I was totally out of my comfort zone.  Luckily a few days before, Matt, my boss, gave me a baseball crash course and I felt comfortable with the most basic of skills.  I had the youngest group of kids (6-8 year olds) so they didn't know enough to call me out for faking it yet. I had my first drama at baseball camp too, a girl was crying because she didn't know how to play baseball and didn't want to be the worst one, so she kind of became my buddy for camp because we were in the same boat. 

The fishing derby hosted by the Isaac Walton league was today!  It was a fishing tournament for kids up to age 17.  At 8am Hannah and I arrived to help set up, and this was the third event in a row that there were donuts and coffee set up for volunteers, I love donuts, just saying.  Anyway, after set up, we ran registration until the event actually started.  A cannon started the event (no one told me that and it made me jump... a lot).  During the event we measured the fish caught, kept record of the type, and how many each participant caught.  We had three groups of kids 7 and under, 8-10 year olds, and 11 and up.  There were winners for first fish caught, most fish for each age group, most unique fish caught, and biggest fish for each age group.

Today was Tiffin's Color Run.  It was a 5k run where at different stations throughout the path there were volunteers throwing color into the runners/walkers. Our day started at 8 at Hedges Boyer park.  First thing we had to learn the course, it was a little tricky because it overlapped in places and after two laps around one spot they had to go a different way.  After we learned the course we had to start setting up the stations with color, tarps (for easy clean-up), water for the runners, and we had to teach volunteers the course as well as how to throw the color without getting it all over everyone's faces. About 15 minutes before the race started, we had to go set up the road blocks.  This ended up being a huge issue because there were still a ton of people trying to come in but obviously we couldn't have people driving on the race course.  So that was a bit of a challenge for a while.  All in all, it was a pretty cool event and a fun way to kind of kick off my internship.