Czech republic part 2
Hey Everyone,
Ok so we got back from Riga I fell asleep on the sofa I was meant to be reading for a bit but I was obviously very tired, which is slightly embarrassing but oh well. The next day I went to Terry’s and we had pizza and tried to watch a film but because the subtitles weren’t working properly we just ended up chatting it was a good evening and I got to know Amanda terry Hanka Bara zuzka and Thomash, which was cool.
The next day I got told that I had to find cords for the camp in the evening, which kinda stressed me out a bit, as I couldn’t check them. Terry thought the chords were found and then he found out they weren’t so that’s what I was doing the evening before camp. I was kinda stressed before that because I realised that this camp wasn’t going to be in English and there were a lot more people. Also I had a workshop and band to sort out. So had more responsibilities and this scared me. I think that I realised that I can’t do this on my own and I had to trust God. I didn’t get this until Sunday after camp and as a result I found this camp really hard and I don’t think I did my best, but I have a whole year to develop the friendship I got and to work on the language and I’m glad that it wasn’t just a week for me.
I also got to catch up with my housemate Ashley for a couple of hours as we’ve both been on different camps it was only the second time I got to see and speak to her. So that was nice to swap stories.
Then next afternoon we headed off to camp. The camp was in Malovice, which is a beautiful village in the Czech mountains it’s like 30min away from Ostrava. The camp was based in this really nice hotel. We had a few hours to get to our rooms and then there was training and get to know you games. It was hard because the language was Czech but someone translated for us. This camp had a lot more workshops than the one in Latvia. There was Journalism and so we had a camp magazine, there was photography video, designing programs 2 drama and dance. I really like the videos and photo as we had video’s a slide shows everyday showing picture from the day before which was nice.
The next day the students arrived and that was hard as a lot of them didn’t speak good English. Though we had getting to know you games and they went well.
I was running the beginner’s piano workshop and one of the girls spoke no English which was really hard. Though the other girl spoke some. But somehow they both learnt chords and both played in the concert and did fantastically well. Petra played all stars, which is fast and did left and right hand. Sasha, who hadn’t played piano before played Perfect by Simple plan, which was amazing. I was so proud of both of them they did so well. That was probably the highlight of my week as I struggled a lot with language and nerves this week. But it was great despite language barriers and the fact that B is H in Czech music terms that we could still connect through music. There was one girl Dagmar, who couldn’t speak much English and we communicated by silly faces in the choir time and it was great that music is universal.
There was meant to be an English discussion group but after the first evening it wasn’t good as some people couldn’t speak English it was decided not to have one. This was hard as there was a lot of time where we, Amanda me and a guy called Keith, another summer intern, felt left out. There wasn’t translation for us and if you happened to sit by someone who spoke English then you got translation and even then sometimes they had to go make announcement or were in charge of games so. It was patchy as a result there I spent a lot of time confused on camp.
That said there were good times when I went upstairs at night and they had a tearoom and had some great conversations that night. There was one night when I went up stairs and there was a group of people singing worship songs and from that I learnt Pro tebe for you and spate sp? which is holy. Also was nice because it was my first experience of Czech worship songs, which are beautiful and reflect something about the Czech people, which I can’t really describe but they are great. I guess because it’s an American run organisation but a lot of the worship songs were in English or were English songs that had been translated, which was weird so it was nice to know there are Czech worship songs. On the last day we played this stupid card game called mall until stupid o clock in the morning, which was funny, as Martin fell asleep and we drew on his face. So fun was had despite language problems.
Then on Wednesday there was Survival which was a day where we got clues and tasks and had to find things. It was hard for me because of the language because we’d get to a task and the guy’s would speak Czech and then be like you have to do this and I was like what? Though I had fun and got closer to some of the girls and got to see a little bit of Czech countryside, which is beautiful. Also got to run down this really steep hill, which was soooooo much fun and I managed to stop at the bottom somehow.
Organising band was a little stressful because survival had to be changed because of the weather so there was a lot of ahh. There was less free time than Latvia, but Keith helped and all the songs were prepared in time. I’ve seen a video of the concert and was pleasantly surprised by how good things sounded. I think because I was quite stressed out by things I wasn’t analysing things accurately. I couldn’t tell how good the band was, but after watching the video things were good, which was great.
The concert was outside which was cool it was a gorgeous day and I didn’t get sunburnt woop. I forgot to put sunscreen on. So was very grateful. We had an after show party and there was crazy dancing and as I’m the Queen of bad dancing it was cool. Then went for a walk with Milan and had a 5 min conversation which was really nice to get to know him a bit as he’s the leader of Haviřov Fusion and I’ll be working under him so that was cool. Then played card games for a while, but they were fun so.
This camp was harder than the Latvia camp just the language barrier. Not being in a discussion group made you fell left out, whereas in Latvia it didn’t I guess because there were more people not in discussion groups. But even though I didn’t think I did my best, I think I’ve started to connect with people in Haviřov Fusion and I’ve got a year to build these relationships and overcome the language barrier a bit. 3 people were saved during the camp, which was really cool and despite the language barrier 2 students learnt piano off me and that was amazing.
Again there pictures and video on my facebook
Love
Anneka
Ok so we got back from Riga I fell asleep on the sofa I was meant to be reading for a bit but I was obviously very tired, which is slightly embarrassing but oh well. The next day I went to Terry’s and we had pizza and tried to watch a film but because the subtitles weren’t working properly we just ended up chatting it was a good evening and I got to know Amanda terry Hanka Bara zuzka and Thomash, which was cool.
The next day I got told that I had to find cords for the camp in the evening, which kinda stressed me out a bit, as I couldn’t check them. Terry thought the chords were found and then he found out they weren’t so that’s what I was doing the evening before camp. I was kinda stressed before that because I realised that this camp wasn’t going to be in English and there were a lot more people. Also I had a workshop and band to sort out. So had more responsibilities and this scared me. I think that I realised that I can’t do this on my own and I had to trust God. I didn’t get this until Sunday after camp and as a result I found this camp really hard and I don’t think I did my best, but I have a whole year to develop the friendship I got and to work on the language and I’m glad that it wasn’t just a week for me.
I also got to catch up with my housemate Ashley for a couple of hours as we’ve both been on different camps it was only the second time I got to see and speak to her. So that was nice to swap stories.
Then next afternoon we headed off to camp. The camp was in Malovice, which is a beautiful village in the Czech mountains it’s like 30min away from Ostrava. The camp was based in this really nice hotel. We had a few hours to get to our rooms and then there was training and get to know you games. It was hard because the language was Czech but someone translated for us. This camp had a lot more workshops than the one in Latvia. There was Journalism and so we had a camp magazine, there was photography video, designing programs 2 drama and dance. I really like the videos and photo as we had video’s a slide shows everyday showing picture from the day before which was nice.
The next day the students arrived and that was hard as a lot of them didn’t speak good English. Though we had getting to know you games and they went well.
I was running the beginner’s piano workshop and one of the girls spoke no English which was really hard. Though the other girl spoke some. But somehow they both learnt chords and both played in the concert and did fantastically well. Petra played all stars, which is fast and did left and right hand. Sasha, who hadn’t played piano before played Perfect by Simple plan, which was amazing. I was so proud of both of them they did so well. That was probably the highlight of my week as I struggled a lot with language and nerves this week. But it was great despite language barriers and the fact that B is H in Czech music terms that we could still connect through music. There was one girl Dagmar, who couldn’t speak much English and we communicated by silly faces in the choir time and it was great that music is universal.
There was meant to be an English discussion group but after the first evening it wasn’t good as some people couldn’t speak English it was decided not to have one. This was hard as there was a lot of time where we, Amanda me and a guy called Keith, another summer intern, felt left out. There wasn’t translation for us and if you happened to sit by someone who spoke English then you got translation and even then sometimes they had to go make announcement or were in charge of games so. It was patchy as a result there I spent a lot of time confused on camp.
That said there were good times when I went upstairs at night and they had a tearoom and had some great conversations that night. There was one night when I went up stairs and there was a group of people singing worship songs and from that I learnt Pro tebe for you and spate sp? which is holy. Also was nice because it was my first experience of Czech worship songs, which are beautiful and reflect something about the Czech people, which I can’t really describe but they are great. I guess because it’s an American run organisation but a lot of the worship songs were in English or were English songs that had been translated, which was weird so it was nice to know there are Czech worship songs. On the last day we played this stupid card game called mall until stupid o clock in the morning, which was funny, as Martin fell asleep and we drew on his face. So fun was had despite language problems.
Then on Wednesday there was Survival which was a day where we got clues and tasks and had to find things. It was hard for me because of the language because we’d get to a task and the guy’s would speak Czech and then be like you have to do this and I was like what? Though I had fun and got closer to some of the girls and got to see a little bit of Czech countryside, which is beautiful. Also got to run down this really steep hill, which was soooooo much fun and I managed to stop at the bottom somehow.
Organising band was a little stressful because survival had to be changed because of the weather so there was a lot of ahh. There was less free time than Latvia, but Keith helped and all the songs were prepared in time. I’ve seen a video of the concert and was pleasantly surprised by how good things sounded. I think because I was quite stressed out by things I wasn’t analysing things accurately. I couldn’t tell how good the band was, but after watching the video things were good, which was great.
The concert was outside which was cool it was a gorgeous day and I didn’t get sunburnt woop. I forgot to put sunscreen on. So was very grateful. We had an after show party and there was crazy dancing and as I’m the Queen of bad dancing it was cool. Then went for a walk with Milan and had a 5 min conversation which was really nice to get to know him a bit as he’s the leader of Haviřov Fusion and I’ll be working under him so that was cool. Then played card games for a while, but they were fun so.
This camp was harder than the Latvia camp just the language barrier. Not being in a discussion group made you fell left out, whereas in Latvia it didn’t I guess because there were more people not in discussion groups. But even though I didn’t think I did my best, I think I’ve started to connect with people in Haviřov Fusion and I’ve got a year to build these relationships and overcome the language barrier a bit. 3 people were saved during the camp, which was really cool and despite the language barrier 2 students learnt piano off me and that was amazing.
Again there pictures and video on my facebook
Love
Anneka