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From: Lana.Berrington@f34.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Lana Berrington)
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Subject: Re: Greetings!
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Date: 1 Mar 90 03:12:38 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

(whoops.. CTRL-Z'ed instead of ctrl-Q <Grin>

     as I was saying...

     Anyways.. at the camp where I work we accomadate many different age 
groups at the same time.  The youngest campers stay for only one week while 
the rest stay for 2 weeks.    During the course of the summer we run two 
specialty camps, which take the place of young campers section.  One is 
Cystic Fibrosis camp .. and this year for  the first time the other will be 
Hearing Impaired Camp.  To Staff our specialty camps we generally use the 
same staff that have been hired to work for the summer.  Unfortunatly this 
means that the counsellors will know only minimal sign language.  It is a 
group  of some sort that is leasing our facilities and our staff for the 
week for HI camp this year.  Our pride at CCH is that we boast a group of 
the most enthusiastic and eager-to-learn  Staff members around, you can bet 
that the bunch of em will be practicing their signlanguage eagerly as soon 
as they have their placement.

LW>> the deaf campers by a campfire.  We didn't sing at all, for
LW>> that would be kinda silly and it would be very boring since
LW>> we couldn't hear the singing.  So, what we did was to do
LW>> the rehearsals for the mimes and playacting in stories.

    YA!.. that sounds great.   Skits, stories, games... just what I was 
thinking.... this is gonna be a great deal of fun.

LW>> out a story. It was a big hit!  Everyone loved it! I never
LW>> forget the fantastic experience back then!

      Absloutly!!  Camping is one of the greatest things going...  We just 
finished celebrating 100years of Ymca camping in Canada and I hope i'm 
around for the next 100.  Thanks you very much for your help , I hope I can 
continue to draw from your experience.

              ~ <*Lana*> ~  
 
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