A day in our life

We wake up by the nice sound of musik, which the delegation of the day picked. Some of us need to use the toilet, most of us are changing into their day-clothes and ALL of us are meeting outside in garden for our daily ritual: the flagtime.

We say good morning, god morgen, 早上好, godmorgen, guten morgen, buon giorno, bom dia, goedemorgen, בוקר טוב , guaden morgen and waaazuuuup in every language and start the day together. Then we are having breakfast in a not so big dining hall. Means we already get to cuddle a bit during the first hour of the day. After every meal we do the traditional "Kitos"- shouting in order to express that we liked the food and are filled up. This looks like that:

After cleaning the campsite and ourselfs we meet for our first activity. Like for example today: the blanket game. 

A bunch of kids were diveded by a big blanket and when the blanket dropped down the two kids that sat in front if each other had to say each others names as fast as possible. Who ever said it first won the other person as a player for his team.

Then we have lunch together wich today were the traditional german "Kartoffelpuffer" or "Rösti" wich could be described as potatoe pancakes. At least thats what the kids called it. We had them with apple sauce - the german way- and with ketchup- the international way.

After lunch the siesta time starts and could be used to refill the batteries because camp life can be exhausting. But we have to encourage the kids a bit more to actually take advantage of that. Right now they are still so excited to meet each other that they rather run arround, outside and inside, and decide to make a looot of noise :)

In activity number two we play the "card game". We all sit in a circle and get a sign from a card game on our hand. Clubs, hearts, dimonds, and spades are shown and whoever has that sign has to moove one chair to the right. Aim of the game is to get back to your own chair. But if you are stuck in a pile of kids, that can be quite difficult.

After activity number two it is snack time so our stomachs get fill with apples, bananas or cake and the leaders go off to the leaders meeting while the jc start shower time with the kids and get them all clean and smelling well.

We like to take over those fresh kids and head right into delegation time. Its the time of the day to reflect on the past days, to speak  bit in the own language or to prepare the national night with the delegation.

dinner is close to come so every kid and adult goes to wash their hands -hopefully- we all meet in the dining hall and...:

"Piep Piep Piep, 

wir ham uns alle lieb.

Jeder isst so viel er kann,

nur nicht seinen Nebenmann, 

heute sind wir ganz genau,

auch nicht seine Nebenfrau.

Piep piep piep,

guten Appetit!"

In activity number three we do something more quietly because its getting late and we all want to calm down before going to bed.

So we play the "fax- machine". Four groups are devided and we are sitting in a row behind each other. The last one in the line gets shown a picture. Then he draws that one on to the back of the person in the front. It gets passed on that way untill it reaches the front. The first person draws on a sheet of paper what he thinks he felt on his back. The group that managed to pass the right drawing all through the line wins.

After activity three is over we all end the day together with the evening flagtime. Good night, boa noite, gute Nacht,晚安, godnat, buona notte, god natt, goedenacht,לילה טוב guads nächtle, cherio and go change into your pyjamas little angels.

Meeting in the lullabies room after brushing the teeth, where the air is getting less but the hugs are getting more.

We sing our great "Parachute- song", "Halleluja", "Leaving on a jet plane" and many many more and then send delegation by delegation into bed. 

"There goes our friends from ...., we hope that they sleep well, tomorrow we meet our friends again and we say ... to them..."

Bye bye.