Today began with some crazy dance moves, an intense spoon-balance Olympic match, and excitement over poured concrete. That’s right, our pool is making great headway! The workers diligently moved to set the concrete, and we looked forward to seeing the progression of the pool in the coming days. The quick
We started off this beautiful camp day with a reminder from our Camp Director, Der Krikor Sabounjian, to encourage and compliment each other out of sincere love. The campers took this to heart today, working with each other during classes and showing great sportsmanship during all of the Olympic games.
We jumped into our second full week here at camp! Campers made God’s Eyes in Arts and Crafts, learned new words in Armenian class, discussed the Kiss of Peace in Religion class, and made cheese boregs and choreg in Heritage. Our Camp Office Coordinator, Lorie Odabashian, and our kitchen volunteers,
We welcomed four new campers to our Vartan family today! Our morning began with a celebration of our Divine Liturgy, followed by the Antasdan (The Blessing of the Fields) service, during which Der Krikor splashed rose water on us celebrants. Campers were very enthused about the celebration of Vartavar, and
We had a great closing ceremony today for our one-week campers. Camper of the Week awards were presented to one camper from each counselor group for exhibiting Christian attitudes, values, and behaviors, and everyone gave a fond farewell to our departing campers. In the afternoon, campers played several games outside,
Here we are at the end of week one! Our time here has gone by so fast, and unfortunately we will be saying goodbye to some of our St. Vartan family members tomorrow. Today was another hot day, and we beat the sun by learning how to play Tavloo in
We felt the full heat of the sun today at St. Vartan Camp. Everyone kept their water bottles full and their sunscreen fresh. Our Arts and Crafts director, Christine Santourian, took advantage of the beautiful day and had campers tie dye pillowcases that dried in the sunny grass. We had
We had another day of sunshine! During classes, campers made their Armenian initials with clay in Arts and Crafts, sung sharagans with Michael Sabounjian in Heritage, expanded their Armenian vocabulary, and continued learning about saints. They soaked in the sun during sports and water activities. Our athletics director, Danielle Malconian,
The rain cleared away right before our classes to let the sun warm up our camp day! Campers had a great time during their class rotations. In religion, they learned about the role of saints as our spiritual heroes and brainstormed ways that they can be more saintly in their
On Sunday, we started our day by celebrating Badarak. As we said goodbye to our visiting ACYOA Central Council members, we welcomed our campers into this new camp season! There were many new faces we were eager to learn and old faces we were delighted to see again. We broke
