El Molino 5 October 2007

E-Zine

• Interviews to the participants

• Letter from the participants
  
  

Brief summary of an exciting camp

We arrived on Friday at about 5 p.m. and we found out that our bags had to be checked before getting into the camp. You are not supposed to speak in Spanish, so they made us make a promise to speak only English unless you wanted to make a counsellor’s breakfast, or dance like a chicken. After the council’s control, we unpacked in our cabins and we started playing games. The first one was Elizabeth’s mingle, it was really funny! After a lot of games and mingling, we eventually have a delicious typical American chicken pie. The rain didn´t stop our fun so we kept on playing till we got very wet and decided to go to cabins to chat and eat marshmallows.

Interviews to the participants

a) What was the funnies part of the camp, and the worst?
b) Who is the most attractive councillor, and student?
c) Who is the most friendly councillor, and student?
d) Which was your favourite food?
e) Did you like the program? What specifically?
f) Who was the funniest person?
g) What would you change about the camp?
h) Who do you think like each other?

Mumi :

a) Bingo, and nothing
b) River and Francisco
c) Elizabeth
d) Potatoes with meat.
e) That there were boys and girls
f) Amber
g) Nothing
h) Cintie with Peter

Meli :

a) Cod cow game, and nothing
b) Mario and Amber
c) Whitsley
d) Brownies
e) “I never get bored”
f) Black
g) Nothing (more showers)
h) Cintia and Peter

Elina :

a) Saturday night, and nothing
b) River and Black
c) Amber
d) Nothing
e) The place
f) Patrick
g) More showers
h) Cintia and Peter

Julian :

a) The part of Shrek, something of food
b) Elizabeth and Brenda
c) Amber
d) The deserts
e) Saturday party
f) Francisco, Mario and Black
g) The game
h) Cintia and Peter
Gonzalo and Juliete
Francisco and Belén
Francisco and Cabra
Francisco and Dana

Ana :

a) The party, and nothing
b) Elizabeth
c) Elizabeth
d) Brownies
e) .
f) Elizabeth
g) Nothing
h) Peter and Cintia

Dana :

a) The party
b) Amber and River
c) Amber
d) Brownies
e) Game with water
f) Amber
g) Nothing
h) Peter and Cintia

Juliete :

a) The running games
b) Amber and Whitney
c) Amber
d) Pancakes
e) Joey
f) Amber
g) Nothing
h) Peter and Cintia

Leile :

a) Filming documentary, the breakfast with pancakes
b) River and Elizabeth
c) Elizabeth
d) Potatoes with meat
e) Games with water
f) Patricio
g) Nothing
h) Francisco with Daiana

Letter from the participants

Dear Staff:
Learning English is just one of the results you get from going to the Immersion Course. You achieve much more!
During the camp, we do not only got to improve our language, we got to know a lot of new people… so, we all made new friends through games, meals and a party; and that made us easier to express ourselves and to feel comfortable. English wasn’t a problem at all!
Counselors were very friendly as the whole group, and helped us in all the things we had to do: games, job interviews, evening preparation, a documentary that we had to make…; it was like a great long party. We had so much fun, we didn’t want to go to our homes! We were having, for many of us, the best camp ever.
Speaking only English turned to an easy challenge, and it’s the only rule the camp has; don’t break it, unless you want to make a meal (typical American meal were only able in the camp) for the counselors or to be “tickle-attacked”. We certainly can tell you that if you try it is simpler than saying “chubby bunny” with a lot of marshmallows in your mouth.
To sum up, if you want to do something different, have fun and at the same time learn new things, you should definitely take part in this course. You will eat food from other countries, apply for your first job and also find the actor or actress inside of you! You won’t get disappointed!


By Melisa and Santiago