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The Calm Before the Storm

It is the night before our training sessions. Again,  we were sprung with some last minute activities such as a song and dance number for the camp tomorrow night. We will be trying to do our own rendition of Canadian square dancing. The Leave No Trace and climate change teams will be departing back to the city to teach while the Wood badge team will be stay in camp to lead their workshops. There has been several adjustments in all the modules as our experience with the Filipino culture and people has forced us to calibrate some of our language and scope. For the Leave No Trace program, we changed our workshop to more of an interactive lecture so we could accept more participants. There is still an unknown on their level of English comprehension. We have had no problems communicating; however, some of our North American colloquialism and nuances require extra time to express.

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