Hello, my name is Dima Kushnirenko I am from the BLUE TEAM. I am here for the first time. In this camp I learn the English language. Today I am the leader of the day. For me it is very important. This session we have THE TIME MACHINE theme. We traveled to the past. We were in a lot of countries like Ancient Egypt, Rome and today we are going to ANCIENT GREECE where we have Olympic Games. We took the 3rd place. All children in our team were trying hard and it was so cool. Also today we have some lessons like Workshop, English lesson and Sport. In Workshop we made candle holder that looks like a TRAIN. Today we had so interesting lesson about THE MOST EXTEREME SPORTS in the world. And about sport we have PIONERBALL It was cool.
I would like to have more different clubs like theatre club or wood cutting.
Dima Kushnirenko 12 years old Kostroma
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Hello, Ilia is on the line. I am a young English teacher from Kostroma who graduated last year. Before coming to MMC as a counselor I worked in Beijing for half a year in a kindergarten as an ESL teacher. Currently am a counsellor for the Blue Carriage. I have never worked in a summer camp before but I enjoy my time here because every day is full of activities, games and friendly chats. Our children have a golden opportunity to learn English naturally outside their classrooms with the help of native speakers. It removes the so common fear pertaining to almost all language learners, the fear of speaking. And speaking being the main language skill is difficult to practice when a child uses it only during his or her English classes at school. It is so nice to see children speak English preparing their dances, rehearsing songs, playing sports, and performing on the stage. The Blue Carriage children are eager to learn English and try to speak it not only with our English-speaking staff members but also with their Russian counselors. An Eastern saying says: “One doesn’t learn with his mouth open”. I think in our case this is not true. Yes, we learn while we speak. What really does make us a great team is that the children do everything together as one team. They truly want to show the best results they can, Ellie and I don’t even have to force them to do something. The kids come up with their own ideas and suggestions, help and support each other. So far we have been doing just great and I hope we will keep the pace till the end of the session and not only broaden our horizons and improve our English but we will go far and beyond.
Ilia Iudin, 2nd carriage
