VBS

[settiai]

You know how, every year, I make the big dramatic post about how I'm never going to let my aunt volunteer me to teach at vacation bible school ever again? And then, the very next year, I'm complaining how she's making me do it again

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[raisintorte]

I feel your pain. I volunteered at Vacation Bible School when I was in high school. It was quite the experience.

[settiai]

I think it would be better if ours was a little more organized. As it is, a handful of kids randomly show, we stay for a couple of hours ... and that's pretty much it.

[fairestcat]

See, I actually miss doing vacation Bible School. I volunteered for it every summer I was home in college and I really enjoyed it. Of course, I always had the 3, 4, and 5 year olds which helped. We had a tri-parrish covenent with the Lutheran and Catholic churches closest to our Episcopal church, so the older kids were all at the Catholic church, which had more meeting space and the middle chunk were across the street with the Lutherans, and we got the little little ones. Old enough to have personalities, but too young to have learned to be really mean to each other.

[settiai]

I think part of the reason it's not that much fun for me is because we just have so few kids. I mean, for awhile this morning, we thought that there were only going to be two of them there - an eleven-year-old and a three-year-old. We ended up with six, and there will hopefully be more tomorrow, but still. It's just not as much for the teachers or the kids when there's only one or two kids per class.

[amedia]

It's just not as much for the teachers or the kids when there's only one or two kids per class.

That doesn't sound like much fun at all. :-(

metherion got volunteered again - the lady who ran it last year moved, but the new lady grabbed me after church even before the kiddo got back from college and asked if he could do it again. He's pretending not to look forward to it. ;-)

[ladynorbert]

5th and 6th grade is what I teach in Sunday School, and personally, I find it to be a very tolerable age group. They're old enough to get plenty of cultural and social references, but they're not quite teenagers so they haven't yet developed that attitude. Maybe I just got lucky with my class (it was my first year teaching), but I really enjoyed my kids.

Who knows? Some of them might be Who fans. ;)

[settiai]

Who knows? Some of them might be Who fans. ;)

Doubtful. :-P

[soundingsea]

Er... Bible school doesn't sound very much like a vacation. :)