I SURVIVED!!!

So camp is over and I have survived. The last week was challenging but also really good too. I planned a day for the kids. I called it the color olympics. We had relays, a scavenger hunt and a drawing contest. It had it's high points and it's low ones too. Some of the games the kids really liked and went really well. However the scavenger hunt left two of the teams a little confused and exhausted. I had planned a game of capture the flag, a personal favorite of mine from the elementary school days, but the translation part was already not going as smoothly as I had hoped with the previous games so I chose to scrap it. Maybe when I go to the camps out west in July with some older students I can give it a try. Also, it was like the hottest day of the camp so by the end of the scavenger hunt the kids were wilting. All in all it was a positive though somewhat frustrating experience for me because I learned what does work and what doesn't here. I had a lot of fun planning it though I was completely exhausted after the day. My Host mom and I get a long great! She loves to show me how to cook with all of the delicious fruits and veggies from her garden and I help her in the picking. Yesterday we watched the Championship Football (Soccer) game in Ukraine... It was between the Kiev Dynamo and our very own local Donetsk Shakhtor (Шахтёр) and our team won!!! It was a great game. They won in the extra minutes at the end from the penalties!!! My host mom is a big fan of the shakhtor and she was very into the game... My Host dad Has been in Donetsk the past two weeks for a recertification class but he's very funny! I'm hoping to go have dinner with some of the volunteers in Donetsk on Sunday. It'll be good to see some other americans and get out of the Novo-E for the day to the big city!!! Take care everybody and just to let you all know that I haven't changed my cell number so feel free to call! Love you all!!!