Estonia - Day 5 - American Games & the Talent Show

Hey guys, yup, that’s me, you might be wondering how I got here - Get him - Goooood - sweet as honey. These are some phrases that have been on repeat this week. This is some day of camp I don’t really remember. Everyday has felt so long and fun that it’s felt like a week already. 

Last nights game was super late, they woke us up at 1 am. We ran around trying to find parts of a flashlight and then first to turn it on won. In the morning we started late and didn’t have a morning session. We had “English environments” all morning which was practicing prepositions and idioms. Good thing some of the campers knew them because I forgot what they were. 

After a good soup for lunch we started our American sports. There was 3 stations and I was at the wiffleball station. We taught them how to play the great American sport baseball and played a game. There was 3 rotations and 3 small group of Estonians going through each one. So we had to teach people who knew nothing about baseball 3 times. Wasn’t easy. Once we said it was like kickball some understood, but was still a lot to work through. The sun was out and destroying a wiffleball past some campers and a getting home run was so fun. 

Then came my favorite part of the day, dinner was amazing, we had some buckwheat and chili/tomato meat sauce thing. That was pretty much it but it was amazing. The last session was great and powerful then at night we had a talent show. I was laughing the whole night. Some people had amazing talents like a camper solving a rubrics cube and hitting 4 backflips in a row, or Rhett counting to 10 in eesti. Some were funny like a group of JV interns, kaileigh, Emily, and I, doing a reenactment of “let it grow” from the Lorax, Noah going up and doing a song sorta thing with a rubber chicken and a glass bottle, some campers singing a Estonian kids song about fruit, and a failed magic tried followed by a song in Russian. There was so much more acts but I can’t name all of them. 

Today was a day of growing in relationship with the kids here and becoming a big family. We are praying for some kids to ask Jesus in there hearts.

- Jesse Lindstrom