We have had 2 full days at Catapult and it feels like we have accomplished a month's worth of material. The program is so in depth and has so much going on in such a short period of time that the results are amazing.
The group is really starting to get to know each other and battling their homesickness and opening up to the program and to each other. Mr. Phil led us in a great opening session doing many activities to get our family groups together and working as a unit.
Last night, we had our Pink'd night (anti-bullying), which was a very powerful evening. Led again by Mr. Phil and complimented by guest speak Travis Price. Travis is one of the people responsible for starting the pink day campaign. He is a native of Nova Scotia and has now popularized pink day to a national phenomenon.
Today's sessions were built on yesterday's leadership focus and put some of it into practice. The camp opened with Will Njoku doing a talk on setting goals and getting the most out of your talent.
The afternoon feature a session on the S.M.I.L.E. program. That session was led by myself with the help of a number of S.M.I.L.E. volunteers. We introduced the program and raised awareness on children and youth living with disabilities while the campers got to try different activities including sledge hockey, goal ball and boccia ball.
Tonighht's session we got out to Raymond Field with Coach Cummins and some of his players to participate in Sunday night lights.
Like I said, we are putting in very full days here on campus at Acadia and I am proud of the progress we are making in such a short time.
Tomorrow's schedule does not let up at all highlighted by the Amazing Cook-off...so, I should get some sleep!
Listen up, Catapulters.
ReplyDeleteThe 300 Spartans is a 1962 Cinemascope film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. Made with the cooperation of the Greek government, it was shot in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese. It starred Richard Egan as the Spartan king Leonidas, Ralph Richardson as Themistocles of Athens and David Farrar as Persian king Xerxes, with Diane Baker as Ellas and Barry Coe as Phylon providing the requisite romantic element in the film. In the film, a force of Greek warriors led by 300 Spartans fights against a Persian army of almost limitless size. Despite the odds, the Spartans will not flee or surrender, even if it means their deaths.
When it was released in 1962, critics saw the movie as a commentary on the Cold War, referring to the independent Greek states as "the only stronghold of freedom remaining in the then known world", holding out against the Persian "slave empire".
This is my story. This is who I am. This is who WE are.Catapulters, we are Spartan: we never give up and never surrender and never say never. We don't know words such as don't, I can't, we won't or "no." We are possible because we know nothing is impossible if we but believe in ourselves. You won't see us by looking in your rear-view mirror because we lead; not follow. Who are we? We are Catapult. Get out of our way because here we come.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Catapult, get up and lemme hear you say "Yeah!"