You know you are a Camp Counselor
at an English Summer Camp
in Moldova
if…
- You use actions more than you use words
- You learn Russian more than you teach English
- Your campers attention span is around 15 minutes
- You eat 24/7 with candies from campers, and fruit and veggies from visiting parents
- “No” was the first English word you taught
- You learned the hard way that Russian’s don’t joke
- Your campers know you will let them leave your sight it they say “…toilet?”
- How can you say no to that?
- You will know all the songs for the rest of your life
- Your campers change clothes more than all the clothes you own (at least on the WR)
- You feel like you are watching tennis most of the time when you look at the English speaker-then Russian translator-English speaker- Russian translator
- You can’t understand things in English unless someone speaks in broken sentences without using articles like a, the, an or nothing is ever plural
- Gymnastics routines are a given performance style for all girls
- You sleep with one eye open hoping you don't get toothpaste on the face
- You braid hair multiple times a day on many people (American, Moldovian, Russians, etc)
- You play Wolves and Shepard and get to whack helpers with padded sticks
- You drink coffee as the evening beverage with your campers
- Find campers "running away" to the peach orchard on the side of camp
- Your campers give their lives to Christ in arts & crafts
- You experience love through language barriers and culture differences
