Summer Club 2011 - Friday 5th August

Summer Club - Thursday 4th August

It had rained all day and then the sky cleared as we made our way over Tower Bridge...

...to go to see Around the World in 80 Days at the open air theatre: The Scoop.

On the way back we had to wait for the bridge!

Summer Club 2011 - Wednesday 3rd August

 We visited two exhibitions today at the Whitechapel Art Gallery...

...and had a quick bite to eat and went climbing at Mile End Climbing Wall

Summer Club 2011 - Tuesday 2nd August

Getting the D6, chatting, donning buoyancy aids, practising paddle strokes, carrying the kayaks, putting them on the water, nerves, getting in from the side of the canal, paddling, tears, getting caught in the reeds, laughter,  canal boats going by, raftingup, chatting, getting to the Joker sign on the bridge, smiles, playing tag, splashes, getting out of the kayaks, putting the boats away, getting the D6 home and more chatting, laughter and smiles

Summer Club 2011 - Monday 1st August

Summer Club 2011 - Monday 1st August to 25th

I do plan on writing up the rest of Summer Club - this weekend I only got the first week done (Day - 1 2 3 4 5)

There are two and a half weeks more - I may have to summarise.

So until I do get around to a proper update, the rest of Summer Club included the following:

• More Ready Steady Cook
• Glass Painting
• More games indoor and out
• More Climbing & Kayaking
• Theatre - Around the World in 80 days
• Art Gallery Tour of Photographs & Ceramics
• Club Sleepover, Food & Movie
• Campcraft ie. cooking on camping stove & tent pitching
• Camping @ Debden House
• Bicycle building & riding
• Hainault Country Park trip with Orienteering & Low Ropes

Amongst other things - had new experiences, learned new skills, met new people, made new friends and built confidence & self esteem 
And its not over yet - on the Thursday the 25th we go to see 39 Steps at the Theatre... 

Summer Club 2011 - Friday 29th July

 

 (see finished butterflies here)

Playing games like pool, table tennis, four in a row, Moshi Top Trumps 

and playground games like Duck Duck Goose

 Designed and Painted Ceramic Mugs

Just Dance Tournament - won by Kali!!!!

Summer Club 2011 - Thursday 28th July

We got our buoyancy aids, paddles and kayaks headed for the canal... On land Dean showed us how to hold and use the paddle and we practised how to use the paddle to move forward and back and to change direction... We got on the canal (probably the hardest bit apart from getting out of the boats again and then we paddled around, tried to avoid the bushes, fishermen and canal boats and when we needed a break had some rest stops where we rafted up and chilled out. For some it was their first time paddling and for others they had been last year and felt more confident this time... but all had a great time and looked forward to doing it again.

Summer Club 2011 - Wednesday 27th July

MAKING FRIDGE MAGNETS & BADGES

 

Finishing Designing & Fabric Painting Socks

Making & Eating Wraps

 

Summer Club 2011 - Tuesday 26th July

Summer Club 2011 - Monday 25th July

The first day of club included registering new people, deciding together on the ground rules and doing all the usual club actities... as well as....under the watchful eyes of Tara & Josh...

 READY STEADY COOK

Two teams chose envelopes to for the main course or dessert. The teams had £5 each and had to plan the meal, go out and buy it and then cook it. Below were the results.

 

...made by Milanda & Kali 

 ...made by Lauren & Nicole

 We also designed templates for fabric painting socks...butterflies were very popular...

And we chatted, made new friends, played games, danced, played pool, laughed, ate, did the wash up and talked about the rest of the week.

T Shirt Designs

Over the two weeks Sarah, Josh L, Josh S, Sue, Thomas and Dean worked on designs for Tshirts to take to Kenya. People tried to use relevant themes like Thomas' one to the right where he used icons of peace and the word peace in Swahilli, one of the native languages of Kenya.

To the left Sarah's design shows some of the native animals of Africa and their names in Swahilli....tembo = elephant, kima = monkey & kiboko = hippo and remember from Lion King simba = lion...Hakuna Matata is swahilli too for no worries/problems and Jambo is Hi!

Everyone applied their designs to the T Shirts with fabric pens and ironed them on the reverse to set them...check them out below.

Cooking with Diane

Another feast of BBQ chicken, Parmigiana Mellanzana, lasagne and for afters strawberry, custard and cream tart and marsbar chocolate fudge cake Mmmmmmm....


Between the three of them they cut, peeled, whipped, boiled, baked, roasted, fried, grated their way to a meal for 10 with a vegetarian option and two desserts...what more could you ask for!

The Dynamic Duo of Joshs more created a Terrific Trio with Diane and wowed us with their culinary skills once more!

Climbing & Kayaking

We went re-visited Mile End Climbing wall where Dean took us and whipped us into shape...with an umbrella which he poked us with if we fell off the wall...then he took us through the whole dangling people from heights on long ropes thing and dropped us from a height in what he likes to call an abseil.

I was very happy with my partner Sarah as she prevented body to ground interface otherwise known as me falling from a height at a rate which would limit my ability to fly. She may have only kept me from falling to stop me landing on her but I like to think that she also had my interests at heart or even did it out of reciprocal altruisim (you scratch my back I'll scratch yours or I'll save u from hitting the ground if you save me)

This day was followed by a day Kayaking - which was not the smartest move for tired arms. We paddled down the canal, avoiding the ducks and swans and trying to avoid the bank. Going in circles seemed pretty popular, maybe because it was so hard to go in a straight line.

And funnily enough we bumped into Dean...well after a phone call to say 'Hey we are at the bottom of your garden' and he came out with Mary to have a chat with us from his garden while we were in our kayaks on the canal...what fun!

And staying in the kayak was nearly as hard as paddling in a straight line...especially for some people...yes Thomas should be in the boat not in the water.

Football @ Millwall

I went to see Southampton play Millwall with Tom. Walking down to Millwall was like walking along a the set for This is England or The Football Factory. I expected from every corner an angry mob to appear chanting and spitting hatred.

It didn't happen - not until the match itself, during which a group of the Millwall fans spent the whole of the match facing us in the Southampton stand doing what they could to look menacing. They didn't care about the football - if they had they would have been looking towards the pitch.

They were the same people who ran past me later shouting 'there's too much police here we're gonna meet them at Waterloo' ...the action they were interested in was no where near the pitch.

If you're interested in the match - on the pitch, check out the Southhampton Site

Make & Do Fun

Practiced face painting, baloon modelling, making friendship bracelets, scoobiedoos so that when we go out to Kenya for YAP we can do these things with the kids for fun.

Paradise Garden 2

Phase 2 of Paradise Garden: Painting the first coat...

...blue sky brick with clouds...

To Be Continued....

(Also did some more video interviews and followed the painting with some pizza and lightly toasted pitta & hummus... as you do)