{"id":319,"date":"2019-06-29T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/?p=319"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T08:47:58","slug":"end-of-the-summer-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leminhha.vn\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"End of the Summer Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

The four weeks of our ReadyYouth summer camp have finally come to an end. In all honesty, I’ve got to say it was a tremendous\u00a0<\/em>achievement on our part, given how absolutely clueless we all were and how half-baked the idea seemed at the start. And somehow we still managed to put together a solid 4 weeks for the kids that went by without a hitch — quite a feat it was!<\/p>\n

Nervous Beginning<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The idea was conceived on the 7th of May (so it was 3 weeks from conception to product building to marketing to sales to product shipment — absolute blitzkrieg!). <\/em>At first, anticipating summer to be our slowest months for the evening IELTS classes, I just wanted to have something to fill the classrooms during the day. As the school year was ending, I had the idea for a summer camp. Phong and I debated for a while and finally agreed on a English-and-Fitness hybrid model for teenagers.<\/p>\n

Originally, Phong was wary of the logistics of lunch and sleeping arrangement for the kids, so we experimented with a more simple summer class idea with three 3-hour sessions throughout the week.<\/p>\n

After a marketing run trial, it turns out parents mostly just want a place to deposit their kids at throughout the day. So we finally went with the summer camp model where the kids would stay the whole day and have lunch and nap at our place.<\/p>\n

I went on to find a suitable English curriculum, Phong outlined the fitness activities, and Ngoc took care of the lunch and sleeping arrangements.<\/p>\n

After some quick marketing efforts, we managed to put together a class of 8 kids, all boys. And that was it — came the 3rd of June, the Opening day. I was nervous as hell and got to work extra early. At 9 am, eight kids just showed up at our place. I taught the English class in the morning, and Phong and Ban led the fitness class in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Miraculously, the first day went by absolutely smoothly. I’m not sure how that happened at all. The kids were a bit awkward at first, but gradually throughout the month we became a lot closer.<\/p>\n

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Teaching the very first English session. I think we were playing an ice-breaker game to get to know everyone here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Beautiful Ending<\/strong><\/h3>\n

And the next four weeks slowly passed by. I taught a few more classes or two, we hired new teachers, Phong still took care of the fitness curriculum, and we went outdoors 4 times for some extra-curricular activities. Transportation was bit of a headache as we had to find two 7-seat cars to accommodate everybody, and we didn’t always find 2 SUVs ready.<\/p>\n

Enough words — here is some footage of what we did throughout the camp:<\/p>\n

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