YAY! Camp CUMCITO has started!!!

This week was Junior Camp. The first day I met Deon, he didn’t have a smile on his face. He looked angry.  After talking with him a while, I discovered that he was not angry, but instead was just feeling nervous. This was his first time at Camp CUMCITO! This was the first camp for me as well and that was a really big deal for both of us. He asked me my name and he tried memorizing it.  He said he was nervous because he was away from his family and friends.

Later, we met again in the pool. As soon as he saw me, he showed me how well he could swim and asked if I would take a picture of him.  By this time he was really enjoying himself.

We met again on the road and Deon told me, “I don’t feel nervous anymore.  Soyoung, are you still feeling nervous?” He remembered what we had talked about on that first day and he had been worrying about me. I was so touched and so happy. He said that he LOVED camp now. This is how it goes for most of the kids who come to camp for the first time.  It has been a FUN week!

(Soyoung is our journalist at Camp CUMCITO this week.)