领队老师Sharon手记：

回国后, Daniel是第一个把夏令营日记发给我的学生。他还挺不好意思地说：“Ms. Sharon,写了一千字可以吗？会不会太多？”

当然不多！每次收到孩子们写的信，我感觉像是收到礼物一样，每一个字都那么珍贵。所以一千多字，这是“大礼”了！

关于Daniel这个阳光男孩，我写了长长的手记，但删了又改，改了又删...始终觉得画蛇添足。干脆把空间留给Daniel吧，孩子的文字， 更真实、更有力量。

Daniel就读双语学校，习惯英文写作。英文部分是他的文字，中文部分是我翻译后添加的。英文好的，建议直接阅读英文部分，这样能更真切地感受13岁男孩独有的视角和思考。

Brief introduction of the whole camp

Ⅰ：回 顾

My summer camp with iDVENTURE had just finished a few days ago, my opinion on things was completely overturned through the process of the fortnight-long summer camp, the experience had shaped me into a slightly different person than myself before I participated in this summer camp. The summer camp was divided into 2 main parts, the first week in Camp Lutherhaven and the second week in the University of Idaho.
几天前，我刚刚结束了iDVENTURE组织的美国夏令营。
在我看来，两星期的夏令营彻底改变了我对一些事情的看法。在一定程度上，这段经历让我变成了不一样的人。
这次的美国夏令营分成两个部分，第一周是在路德海雯营地，第二周是在爱达荷大学。

Camp life in Lutherhaven

Ⅱ：营地生活

Before the summer camp, I was quite depressed to go to Lutherhaven without knowing it thoroughly, and I expected more fun from the coding camp in the University of Idaho, but the reality was totally different, Lutherhaven was unquestionably the best place I’ve been with iDVENTURE.
去美国之前，我并不了解路德海雯营地。所以去参加户外营地的夏令营，我有些抵触。
我更期待的部分是去爱达荷大学参加编程夏令营。但现实和我的预期不一样，路德海雯营地绝对是这段旅程中最棒的部分。

Lutherhaven is a Christianity camp established 7 decades ago in Idaho, I wasn’t so excited about that without experiencing it myself, but after I did, I was fascinated by literally everything in there. I met my counselor Alec along with my American friends on the first day, and with hours of chatting, we were already quite significant to each other, well prepared for the activities at night and through the week of Lutherhaven. They were all kind and humorous.
路德海雯营地在美国爱达荷州，已经有70多年历史。
没来营地之前，我并不期待。但去了之后，我对这里的一切都感到着迷。
第一天，我遇见了我的美国辅导员Alec，还有和我一个木屋的美国舍友。经过几小时的聊天，我们就已经非常熟悉了。我发现，他们都很友好，而且很幽默。好了，我们已经迫不及待要开始一周的营地生活了。

The week was fulfilled with joyfulness, every morning we would be waken up by Alec and have breakfast after we brushed our teeth and get changed. After breakfast, we had morning worships about christianity, that was the time when we sing and dance along with gentle guitar chords. As a Chinese camper, it wasn’t really necessary for me to believe in their religion, but it was great to learn something about their culture and religion while we share our own culture with campers and counselors from the US, I enjoyed doing that a lot.
这一周充满了快乐。
每天早上我们都会被Alec叫醒，一起洗漱和穿戴整齐。早餐结束后，我们参加晨间祷告，一起跟随着轻柔的吉他声唱歌、跳舞。
作为一个来自中国的营员，我不需要去相信他们的宗教。但我很喜欢和他们分享彼此的文化和宗教信仰。
Daniel和美国辅导员Alec

After intermingling our cultures, we got to choose our own activity to do for the 2 1-hour-sessions from the “Discovery Centers”, there were a lot of activities available for us, but soccer had always been my prior choice for the “Discovery Centers”. Next we had lunch, not like breakfast in Lutherhaven, lunch changed everyday, the food was way better than Chinese food and the food in my school. After lunch we usually swim in the lake, there are a lot of activities on the lake. Then the activity varies everyday in camp(all of them decided by my counselor Alec), mid rope courses, woodcrafting, and teaching them Chinese were all pretty good, but sometimes challenging.
晨间祷告结束后，我们会参加两个半小时的“Discovery Center”。这个环节有非常丰富的活动和课程，我们营员可以自行选择。足球是我的最爱，所以我经常选择足球课，和美国队员一起比赛。
接下来，我们吃午饭。和早餐不同，营地的午餐每天都不一样。我觉得这里的食物比中餐，甚至比我学校的午餐都好。午餐结束后，我们通常会去湖里游泳。除了游泳，还有其他有趣的水上课程。
每天，营地的活动和课程都不一样，比如绳索，木工，教美国学生中文，等等。这些活动设计地非常好，但有时候会比较有挑战性。再补充一点，每天参加的活动都是由我们的辅导员Alec来主导的。

Dinner was served after the activities and the food was as good as our lunch. After dinner, we had fun in some simple games until the sky gets darker. Usually the sky turns dark at 9:30 pm in Idaho, and we usually go to the evening worships at 9 pm. These were really similar compared to the morning worships, we sang more songs in the evening worships. At the first night’s evening worship, I was confused a lot by the songs and I refused to sing along, but by the last worship, my melody, lyrics, and dance moves were already as good as the American campers.
一天的活动结束后，营地早已准备好了晚餐。我觉得晚餐和午餐一样好吃。
晚饭结束后，我们会做一些简单的游戏直到天黑。在爱达荷州，夏天一般要到晚上9:30之后才天黑。所以我们通常会在晚上9:00去参加夜间祷告。刚开始的时候，这些营歌我都不熟悉，所以我不愿意单独唱。
几天下来，我对这里的歌曲和舞步逐渐驾轻就熟，到最后，我的表演水平已经和美国同学不相上下了。

That just marked the end of a Lutherhaven camp day, I enjoyed more than enough everyday in Lutherhaven, I learnt both how to work with my American friends and how to challenge new things by myself through all of these.
当然，这也意味着我在路德海雯的夏令营接近尾声了。我非常享受这里的每一天：我学会了如何和美国朋友一起合作，也学会了去勇敢尝试新的挑战。

My Highlights

Ⅲ：精彩瞬间

I had a lot of highlights during the camp, the ones I loved the most were playing soccer with Americans and teaching American campers and counselors the Chinese language. Soccer had always been my favorite sport, it required teamwork and sportsmanship, the people I played with were all pretty tough, it was a lot of challenge for me to play with them in this circumstance. Scoring goals in the games was much harder than I expected, but I kept pushing and I made I few through the week. I was shocked, or even a bit frightened after I realized that I scored a goal when I played against American campers. It might be very ordinary for an American camper to score one, but a goal had always meant a lot to me.
在营地，有很多精彩瞬间让我难以忘怀。
我最难忘的是和美国营员一起踢足球，和教美国营员和老师说中文。足球一直是我最喜欢的运动，它需要团队合作和体育精神。在营地，和我踢足球的美国队友都非常厉害，和他们竞技很有挑战性。所以，在这里进球也比我预期的要难很多。但我一直鼓励自己去突破，结果一周内我进了好几次球。第一次进球，我都惊呆了，甚至有些不感相信，因为我战胜了美国球员。进球对于美国营员来说也许很正常，但对于我来说意义非凡。

My second highlight of Lutherhaven was teaching American campers Chinese. We went through the basics and the greetings in Chinese, but afterwards, I came up with the idea to teach the Americans an extremely “popular” song in China—鸡你太美. I didn’t expect that teaching them this song would be too influential, but eventually, they just started shouting out 鸡你太美 everywhere, we actually ended up with the whole camp knowing about that. Alec was very obsessed with 鸡你太美, when we made woodcrafts, he carved the phrase onto a piece of wood and hanged it on his backpack, when we rowed a canoe intensely, he used 鸡你太美 as the beat, and made us energetic for the whole time.
Daniel手绘蔡徐坤，展示“鸡你太美”
我的第二个精彩时刻，是教美国营员学中文。我先教他们基础，接着教”问候用语”，后来我突发奇想：干脆教他们国内最流行的中文歌曲—“鸡你太美”。我的教育成果就是，我同屋的美国舍友到哪里都大声唱着“鸡你太美”，以至于最后整个营地都知道了这首歌。
辅导员Alec对“鸡你太美”简直到了痴迷的程度。我们一起做木工的时候，他把“鸡你太美”的中文刻在了一块木头上，做成饰品，挂在了自己的背包上。当我们一起划独木舟的时候，Alec大声吼着“鸡~你~太~美”，作为我们的划船口号，太带劲了。

The camp life in Lutherhaven should be a very memorable time for me. Through the camp, I had grew a lot and gained a lot of confidence. At last, I need to give a special thanks to my counselor Alec, he treated all of us like his own family, I hope that I can see him again somewhere later.
对我来说，在路德海雯的营地生活是非常难忘的时光。通过营地，我成长了很多，收获了很多自信。
最后，我想要对我的美国辅导员Alec表示特别的感谢。他对待我们就像对待自己的家人一样。我希望在不远的将来，我能有机会能再次和他相遇。

Conclusion & Thanks

Ⅲ：谢谢你们

In conclusion, the summer camp was overall successful, I also had fun in the Silverwood theme park, Seattle, and my host family, which were right between the parts. I learnt how to be independent, and grew a lot of confidence. Besides thanking my counselor Alec in Lutherhaven, I also need to give credits to all Lutherhaven staff members, my host family, all iDVENTURE staff members, and all iDVENTURE campers, without all of you, I won’t be able to have this much of fun in the camp, and good luck! In my future life, I will recall all of these unusual experiences whenever I face difficulties, and use the things I’ve learnt with iDVENTURE to overcome the difficulties.

这次的美国夏令营对我来说特别成功！

除了夏令营之外，我还去了Silverwood主题乐园，游览了西雅图，和我的美国住家生活了两天，这些我都非常喜欢。我学会了独立，也更加自信。除了感谢在路德海雯营地的辅导员Alec，我也要感谢爱迪美营的所有老师，感谢和我一路相伴的伙伴们，没有你们，我的夏令营不会如此多姿多彩，祝福你们！

在我未来的人生里，如果我遇到困难，我都会想起这段不同寻常的经历，将我所学到勇气和信心去克服困难！

Daniel
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