Day 8 - Camp Evening Activities

Our evening activities/entertainment was also quite fun! We announced the winners from the 2008 My Vietnam Art Contest...really amazing art this year. The theme this year was scenes from tradtional folk tales - our girls spent time reading or listening to stories during their practice sessions and were so proud of their work and of course fror some, so excited to win!

Our 2008 best of show is this one...Our 16 year old winner received a scholarship prize of 3,000,000 VND ($200) and the first thing she did was tell me that half would go to her teacher who taught her how to read 2 years ago and the other half she wanted to send her sister to school.

The rest of the show was filled with talent from all the groups - dancing, fashion show, skits - even our team got into it! We laughed, danced and had a really great time. It was a wonderful end to our work week and the kids were bouncing off the walls by the time they got to the huge campfire on the beach. It will be an early start for our girls in the morning - they would all leave by 5:00 a.m. to get back home. We never "officially" said good bye to them but we knew we would see them again soon!