Day 2 Photos: First Day of Classes, Quidditch, and Game Show Night!

The first day of classes started on Sunday this year. Campers each took six classes, three in the morning and three after lunch. All campers were required to take arts and crafts, folk dance, sports, chorus and ID (identity discussion). For their sixth classes, campers had the option of taking either folk sports with counselor Alex or modern dance with counselors Becky and Jojo.

The A/C still wasn’t on (apparently the mechanic didn’t work weekends), and so our campers suffered a bit in the PE Center. In chorus, campers began learning the camp song, Wo Men De Gu Shi (Our Story) by Tension. In ID, all campers decorated paper bags to create their own personal mailboxes. These were later hung up on the wall of the 2nd floor lounge at the dorm so that campers and counselors could sense positive messages back and forth throughout the week.

In the afternoon, we were supposed to have water games, but the forecast called for rain and so we switched it up with Quidditch, instead. Quidditch, which the campers learned earlier that day in sports class, is a game based off the sport featured in the Harry Potter book series. In our “muggle” version, teams faced off against one another in 9v9 matches. The objective is to send the quaffle (a small kickball) through one of three hoops, which is defended by a keeper (a goalie). Each goal scores one point. Meanwhile, two players from each team serve as beaters. They carry bludgers (squishy balls) that they can use to freeze members of the opposite team. When hit by a bludger, campers had to dizzy bat three times before they could continue playing. With about five minutes left in the match, two counselors entered the playing field throwing around the snitch (a tennis ball). The game ended when either team’s seeker was able to intercept this tennis ball, which scored that team an additional 3 points. For a first go around at the game this year, we’d say that campers had a great time and Quidditch proved to be a success.

At night we brought back game show night. In their groups (B1 through G6), campers competed in one of six games against a group of the opposite sex. These games included Family Feud, where groups had to guess the most popular answer to a category based on a survey of the counselors’ friends; Match Game, where groups were rewarded points based on the number of group members who responded identically to a given question; Jeopardy!; Dizzybat Boggle, in which campers had to dizzy bat five times (see a theme yet?) before running up to a table to find the most words possible in a 4×4 grid of letters; Wheel of Fortune; and Mind Reader, where campers had to guess their partners’ answers to a specific question like “Who would ____ want to slow dance with?”