Bingo!

It is a hard fact that my English skills are limited to reading and speaking.  Reading might even be a stretch, some words I just blank on.  

Forget spelling.  

That's a skill I failed at from the start.

So the joy I had when I was told that my winter camp would be a phonetics camp was through the motherf#@*ing roof.

I might have said this before, but camps are meant to be fun.  Spark the joy for learning English, outside of the classroom setting.  However, my record with fun camps has been a draw.  50/50.

Of the four camps I've done while being here, I've been able to design* two of them.

• Summer 1 - EBS English camp (a program all online designed by someone in Korea that required me to do nothing, except push a button on the computer to advance to the next screen).
• Winter 1 - Reading and movie camp (I designed the reading portion, picking the books and made all the supporting materials to go along with it.  The movie bit was part of a pre-made BMOE booklet thing, that - although it was created by native English teachers - so fairly shitty on the whole).
• Summer 2 - Reading and craft camp - for the younger students / Reading and writing camp - for the older students (I designed).

that brings us to this most recent one...

• Winter 2 - Phonetics camp (pre-made book by someone, it was decent for the most part.  Not that thorough, but decent.  Although all that was required of me was to repeat words, pass out snack and...)

Play Bingo.

We played a lot of Bingo.  We played Bingo everyday.  But the kids never tired of it.  It was boggling.

But if it ain't broken, don't fix it.

So we played bingo this camp.  I guess that's fun.

*by "design" I mean I was told the type of the camp we were going to have; and I got to come up with an idea for how to carry it out.