PICTURES

Sorry,

There have been some technical difficulties with the photo albums.

We are working on making space for the 2011 photos... More to come.

The blog will be updated when things are back to normal and the new pictures are up.

UPDATE 10pm Thursday: The pictures are back and new ones added.

Something Silent

Dinner costume creativity for Something Silent:

• FOBBY time
• Clouds
• Darkness
• A mouse
• A person with a mute button
• Silent letters: e, k
• a rest (music notation)
• Dandruff
• Ninja
• Dementors
• Love

Wednesday.

The sun is a little brighter and the wind a little calmer.

It's the day of silence and listening at camp, and we celebrate this theme by throwing an awesomely ironic dance party beside the Camp Heartland stage. While dancing isn't had by all, everyone participates in of many activities; like cards, football, or just socializing.

When the whole camp is a little sweaty and a tad bug-bitten, we make our way to our communal campfire to celebrate listening and the sanctity of silence through a rousing version of "Lord of the Dance".

Camp is brimming with inspirational messages, especially on this Wednesday where we celebrate with the sanctity of God both silence and raucous rejoicing.

To each his or her own.

- Andy

Cups are not just for beverages...

Cups are not just for beverages, they are valuable teaching tools here at music camp.

In Andy's music theory class they are being used to teach rhythm, beat, accents, and other concepts. Coordination of both the person and the timing to have everyone stay together on the beat is a difficult task at times.

We started out with a well known pattern that the majority of the class already knew. It was tougher than they expected because they knew how to do it quickly, but could not do it slowly. We would practice the pattern, then write it on a musical score, later we determined where the accents were and marked those as well.

Andy even came up with a new pattern so everyone could start learning from scratch.

Clap - Clap - Tap - Tap - Tap - Tap -Tap - Clap - pause - grab cup - cup to other hand - to table - to hand - to table -to hand and switch - over and down...