As most know, I'm not a big kid person. So this camp was going to be a big comfort zone to push. It was a three day program to teach students about how to make conscious decisions about conservation and just general awareness to the Earth.
I read the manual on Monday and it said things like "when the kids get extremely excited" and I just thought, what the hell? What a joke.
The goal is to learn four important goals to earn keys to find out who is the Keeper of the Earth. Ultimately, its each child, but they have to learn how by earning keys. Each key is a different level of awareness.
We had games, earth walks, diary walks, magic spots, and key ceremonies. The kids were so excited. All of them. They all want to believe E.M. is real. They all wanted to find out the next step to discovery. We couldn't tire them out. I can't even begin to express in writing the amount of excitement these kids brought to the program. They were so eager and the amount of innocence they brought to the table was pure and refreshing.
It was a lot of hard work and the reward was almost instantaneous. I can't wait to do more camps with Wild Mountains.
Richard and Susan have put their entire lives into the development of the center. I want nothing more than to help them develop the programs and share their country world with the city kids.
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