News from Emma and Mike

Hey, it’s Emma and Mike writing the second CIT blog. Emma has been here for 10 years (whoa, that’s a long time!), and it’s Mike’s 5th. It’s been pretty hectic here since we last posted with all of the special events going on. The CITs were busy planning a special event for this past Friday. The event we ran was called Star Warz, a series of tournaments of different activities, and even though it was a rainy day, all of the campers seemed to have a lot of fun!
Week 3 was Ms. Campus Kids, where Simon’s “Lady Gaga” performance blew the crowd away. The CITs performed “Jersey Shore” and came in 6th. During week 4 the highly anticipated Apache Relay took place and Atlantis took the title for the second year in a row. This was the first year Apache was held at the Minisink campus, so everyone was really excited to see who would win this year. The week 4 dance theme was space, it was interesting to see some of the creative costumes from both campers and staff. Although many campers finished their stay here last week, we know that they went home with some great memories from Campus Kids! Now, it's week 5, new campers have arrived and there is more fun happening as we speak...

Special Event Planning

Hi, my name is Effi. I have been going to CKM for seven years. Hi, my name is Ducky(yes it's my nickname, not my real name) and I went to CKCT for seven years and this is my first summer at CKM. We're both CITs!! For those who don't know what a CIT is, we are Counselors in Training. There are 14 of us, 12 guys and 2 girls. We are having a great time and are loving the program. Everyday we have meetings, prep work, do community service and help out the staff where we are needed.
The CIT program is a brand new program that is helping us to become better staff for the future and teach us leadership skills.

So every week we get assigned to different areas for third period and this first week of camp we got to spend Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurday with our favorite people, Kathryn and Tricia!! Our job was to plan things for our first session dance: the International Dance. We made a list of things to do and, if we may say so, it's going to be an awesome dance. A few things that we have done to prepare is translate some fun words and some camp songs in different languages. Another thing we have done is to make a sign up sheet for people to request certain songs that are popular in different places and play them at the dance. We can't give all our COOL ideas away, though, and we have to go and do more CIT things.

So this is Effi and Ducky signing out!
Adios amigos!!!