31/7/10

It's the Chalet's 78th birthday!! Wahoo, birthday celebrations all day. It was on-site day, and Jane and I were in charge of the craft activity. In morning meeting, we were also discussing what games we wanted to play throughout the activity and when it was time to change the activity. It was alot of fun talking about international birthday games. But, after morning meeting, we had the opening ceremony at the flag pole. The guests are from the USA, of course, Denmark and Canada. We then split the groups up by playing the birthday game. The guests had to get in birthday order without talking, that game is always fun to watch. After the groups were split, we did an equipment check and played a name game. It is always hard to learn everyones name on on-site day. Then, we headed to the dining hall to start crafts. I even made a miniature green snowflake. During our activity, we had guests sign a chinese lantern thing that we were going to fly for Our Chalet's birthday. We also were making tin lanterns, using hammers and nails to make holes in the tin can. It was a lot of fun to bang through the ice to make the hole in the lantern. And toward the end of our activity, we played a very entertaining outdoor game. We had four wind bottles at one end of the ground and then the girls had to put a belt on with a nail attached to a string. It was great fun watching the different teams relay and race to finish. After the first session it was lunch time, and after lunch I helped the guest services crew fold laundry. Before the guests set off for their next activity, we had them play musical backpacks. It was a lot of fun. During the next craft activity, I wandered about through the guests to make sure they were doing the craft correctly, etc. I even organized the colored paper and tidied up some of the tables. The next session was fun as well, I got to put the finishing touches on the chinese paper lantern and I decorated it for the chalet's birthday. We then helped the guests tidy up the room and prepare it for dinner. We even decorated the dining hall with balloons and flags for the birthday celebration. The evening program was international night, which we could only allow to go on for 45 minutes, because we had a surprise for the guests. At a quarter til 9, we surprised them with a cake for the chalet's birthday, and we sang 'Happy Birthday' in 8 languages =) Wahoo. It was a very good birthday day =).