Lato Camp!

Hello to Everyone!

Camp is here! and so are about 200 campers! Ahhhhhh! That was an excited ahh!, not a "what have a gotten myself into" ahh! just to clarify. I'm an assistant leader to Marysia, another intern, and we have 13 girls this week. Since there are so many campers this week most of the assistants aren't starting with their cabins, which is cool with me. I think I can "suffer" and stay another week in the hotel :).
All the kids arrived Sunday, which was chaos with luggage, kids, and parents everywhere, but it wouldn't be camp without that chaos. The language barrier made things a little awkward at first, but now the girls are always teaching new things to say, like hamster (I'm not sure when I'll ever use that, but it's all good :). They're all about 9-11 years old and very sweet! A couple of them speak English well enough to help me communicate with the other girls that only speak Polish and when we can't communitcate with words we play Gestures (I'll be a gestures pro by the end of the summer).
The camp schedule is pretty much the same as any other camp, except it's written in Polish so I still don't know what's going on sometimes lol... but that might have something to do with that fact I'm a little ADD too... Did I mention my need to wash my feet and I'm so getting a pedicure when I get home? I thought my feet were bad before. Anyway, what was I saying? :) Oh yes, camp and the girls. Marysia and I really do have a great group this week! Tonight we all prayed together before they went to bed and Marysia asked is any of them wanted to pray and almost of them raised their hand. Even though I couldn't understand everything, it was still awesome to see all of these young girls jumping as the chance to talk with God.
It's been interesting to see God's hand in everything this summer. From being sick, to cultural barriers, to building relationships with people I never imagined I would be able to be friends with. So many things the be thankful for and excited about!
I'm sorry this is short, but I'm tired and tomorrow is going to start early. And again I apologizes for the spelling errors and missing words. I'm too tired to reread this. I love you all and your prayers are much appreciated!

Joanna "Powerhouse" Hufhand

Oh! and a special thank you to the Kenya MI2 Team for the gifts and letters! Love you guys! Wish we could all be in 2 places at once!