International Day this summer has been an extra treat as Walsee, the German Language Village, and CLV celebrated 50 years of teaching children about language and culture. This morning started with an early breakfast in order to get ready to…
In keeping with traditional Minnesotan weather, the rain returned today. The change in weather did not hinder the villagers from getting ready for International Day which will be held at the German site tomorrow in Bemidji. The villagers continued with…
Today the clouds parted, the rain stopped, and the sun came out to make for a wonderful day at camp. The villagers went on with their cooking activity, and were able to take advantage of the change in weather with…
Tonight the credit villagers have an extra long study hall to prepare for their exam tomorrow so aren’t participating in the evening program, so it’s just the two week villagers playing our version of the Newlywed Game with their counselors. …
Tonight was Noite de bigodes (Mustache night). The staff played the role of many individuals with mustaches from the Portuguese world and the villagers learned a bit about them to earn their own mustaches and also had to do tasks…
Today we had the second part of Brazilian street food day and made Brazilian hot dogs–just like the pizzas lots of toppings that we don’t usually put on hot dogs in the US: ketchup, mustard, corn, peas, shoestring potatoes, tomatoes,…
A big focus of today is preparation for International Day on Friday. Part of what we need to do today is learn the International Day dance that all villages do. We’re also preparing the dance for our closing program to…
We did manage to take two photos before the rodízio de pizza last night, so here they are–you can see the ingredients we used on our pizzas.
Today our afternoon was a bit different than usual. After cochilo (rest time) we had activities and class like usual, but we had an extra half hour of free time and didn’t have song time or Lusomania. We needed the…
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