Summer 2012 for Christina Chan, brought a wonderful, amazing, life changing experience!
I up and moved to America for 3 months! I was lucky enough to land a job at Fernwood Cove Summer Camp for girls in, Maine, USA. I was Camp Counsellor and Arts & Crafts Department Head! In this role I got to hang out with some of the coolest, funniest and down to earth girls and fellow staff I have ever met.
It didn't feel like a job. I was having so much fun. These girls inspired me to create more and realise my potential for teaching!
I'll admit there were difficulties, I didn't realise just how much you had to break down the explaining process but with a lot of laughs and patience we all got there. And these girls produced some marvellous creations that made me so so proud!
One of my lessons were charcoal drawing classes were I taught them about the uses of using just charcoal and a putty eraser to create depth and tones in their drawings.
My favourite despite being the messiest class proved to be most popular, were my 'Chinese Lanterns'
So . . I had trouble in the first week as I named it fairy lights but turns out in America they don't call them fairy lights! They are twinkle lights! So I had to make some and show them in assembly before they started understanding and signing up for my classes!
The process included paper-mache-ing some ballons with colourful tissue paper and eventually with low burning LED lights, wire, my intense supervision and a hot glue gun we attached these 'lanterns' onto the lights and Ta Daaa here they have some cute fairy lights that they can take home after the summer and hang up in their rooms!
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| One of my girls and her completed "Chinese Lanterns' |
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| My Art Department |
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| Parents Visiting day |
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| One of my end charcoal classes I let them play with glitter! |
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| My girls Charcoal drawings |
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| My bunk family Session 1 |
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| My bunk family session 2 |
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| Before bed games |
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| Dinner time |
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| The 12 seater beast of a van they let me drive! |
