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
Since last Wednesday, this year’s staff have been in training for the upcoming camp season. There are many new faces as well as veteran staff, and we covered a wide range of topics to prepare us for the arrival of campers. We ended our staff training with a visit and
We have arrived at our last full day at camp. Unfortunately, it was a very rainy day, so sports and swim had to be reorganized a bit. Campers did yoga in the rec hall during sports and took the swim period to do some early packing. The staff and CITs
None of us here can believe that this camp season is almost at a close! We had such a great day, and everyone made the most of their time together. The campers played soccer during sports and soaked up as much time in the pool they could before it began
We are so close to the end of camp, but we are no where near close to the end of having fun! All campers had bootcamp with Vahe today, and they loved it despite its intensity. Classes were great, and the kids loved making mosaics in arts and crafts. After
We had another awesome day here at camp! During classes, the campers continued to learn the alphabet, sang with Maestro, learned about Ordination with Deacon Justin, and tie-dyed with Zaven. They played line basketball during sports and had a great time taking advantage of the pool on this beautiful day.
It was such a beautiful day today! The rain cooled the weather down incredibly, and we enjoyed a lot of sunshine and a great breeze. This week, the junior and the teen schedule switched, so juniors had sports and swim in the morning and the teens went off to classes.
