Intercultural Summer Camps | Come Along

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• "I loved learning new language and dances"
• "Educational and entertaining"
• "It was fun"
• "It was brilliant"
• "Interesting to learn about other people's cultures and religions"
• "I learned how to say stuff in Polish"
• "Every culture has it's own language, dance, food"
• "This camp was very successful because everyone had great fun and made a lot of friends. I'm sure that a lot of moments from this camp will stay in my mind forever"
• "As this was the first Red Card camp, I was hesitant about coming, but now that I have come, I agree with almost everyone- that it was amazing. My only feedback is that it should be longer"

Typical Day

• 8am Get up
• 8:30am Morning Exercise activities
• 9am Breakfast
• 10am Language Learning
• 11:30 break
• 12:00 Sports; volleyball, basketball, football, rounders
• 1pm lunch
• 2pm Break
• 3pm Beach activities/ Walk
• 6pm Dinner
• 7pm Country presentation
• 8pm Learn songs/ dance/ music of other countries
• 9:30pm Assembly meeting
• 10pm Bed

• Angelika: I enjoyed all the intercultural activities
• Ciaran: Ok
• Lauren Tester: I enjoyed all of the activities
• Ronan Quinn: It was good fun and good craic
• Aodan Matthew: They were fun and built bonds with other people
• Zurar: I liked it very much
• Adam: I thought they were fun
• Lorraine: I thought they were good
• Hemin: Very good
• Hasib: Good
• Niamh: It was really good
• Shivani: It was fun
• Rosa: I had fun
• Ciara: I thought it was great fun and very interesting
• Joshua: Yea, I think it was really cool
• Christopher: I enjoyed all the activities
• Daria: I really liked them. I loved learning new language and dances.
• Glenn: Yes
• Arjun: I liked them all
• Bhim: They were interesting and I learned a lot.
• Sean: They were fun
• Claire Shelly-Lacey: Good
• Christivan Maritz: It was fun
• Sarah McQueeny: It was brilliant.
• Kelliiee: It was brilliant.
• Clara: It was brilliant.
• Donal: I enjoyed them very much. It was interesting to find out about toher people?s cultures/religions
• Juvan: I made a lot of friends and the leaders were the best. I learned a lot about different cultures.
• Umar: Had lots of fun
• Darren: Cool
• Shauna: They were fun
• Micheal: Good.

• Angelika: I learned different dances and languages
• Ciaran: new language
• Can't Read Signature: I learned different songs, dances and languages.
• Lauren Tester: How they dress, dance, pray and sing and how they are nice when you don?t judge people.
• Ronan Quinn: I learned Indian dance.
• Aodan Matthew: They have traditional dances and songs
• Zurar: I learned about food and clothes
• Adam: Indian Dance
• Lorraine: I can't remember
• Hemin: the dance of some country
• Hasib: I learned Spanish, Russian, Slovenian, Geigleahl, Indian Dance
• Niamh: They have different religions, languages and traditions
• Shivani: There are lots of different cultures
• Rosa: dancing and singing
• Ciara: I learned about their language, the songs and their clothes
• Joshua: a lot of stuff like how to say stuff in polish
• Christopher: different foods
• Daria: I learned that every culture has it's own language, dance, food and culture
• Glenn: about peoples cultures
• Arjun: lots of stuff
• Gabrielle: I learned the cance and singing
• Bhim: Their traditions and languages
• Can?t Read Signature: I learned a lot of stuff from Ireland, Slovenia, Russia, etc.
• Sean: a lot
• Claire Shelly-Lacey: a lot
• Christivan Maritz: The dancing and songs and especially the games
• Sarah McQueeny: I learned the different languages and religions
• Kelliiee: I learned different languages
• Clara: What other people in countries wear and eat.
• Donal: I learned that different countries have different ways of living but these differences increase all the diverse cultures in the world.
• Juvan: I learned the songs, languages, dances, etc. I learned about different peoples cultures.
• Umar: They are only a bit different
• Darren: Indian Dancing
• Shauna: language
• Micheal: dancing

• Angelika: My favourite cultural activity was Indian Dancing.
• Ciaran: dancing
• Lauren Tester: Coasteering and Discos
• Ronan Quinn: the Indian Dance
• Aodan Matthew: Indian Culture
• Zurar: Coasteering
• Adam: Coasteering
• Lorraine: going Coasteering
• Hemin: The Indian Dance
• Hasib: Spanish and Indian Dance
• Niamh: Indian Dancing
• Shivani: Singing in Slovenian, Indian Dancing
• Rosa: coasteering and dancing
• Ciara: doing the Jai Ho dance
• Joshua: don't know
• Christopher: Walk up the hill
• Daria: my favourite activity was Indian Dancing. The bells were cool.
• Glenn: coasteering
• Arjun: coasteering
• Gabrielle: My favorite culture activity at the camp was all most everything I enjoy it.
• Bhim: esperanto
• Sean: cultural presentations
• Claire Shelly-Lacey: Singing about owls
• Christivan Maritz: All the dancing we did
• Sarah McQueeny: coasteering
• Kelliiee: coasteering.
• Clara: coasteering
• Donal: Coasteering (next year should be more adventure outside activities)
• Juvan: All of them but I liked the Indian Dance and Russian
• Umar: Indian Dancing
• Darren: Coasteering
• Shauna: The discos
• Micheal: dancing.

• Ciaran: Racism
• Anon: I think that the main challenge is fear; people can be scared of someone who looks, speaks different, so I think that's a main reason. That's how foreigners can be bullied, physically and verbally abused.
• Lauren: The way we speak and our accent
• Ronan: Different culture
• Aodan: Ignorance
• Zurar: make new friends
• Adam: Speaking Irish
• Lorraine: making friends
• Hemin: making friends
• Hasib: yes
• Niamh: racism and ignorance
• Shivani: settling with the Irish culture
• Rosa: Racism
• Ciara: Getting jobs and making friends
• Joshua: the cold weather
• Christopher: the language meeting new people
• Daria: I guess it's dealing with bullying, learning new languages, and getting accustomed to the weather.
• Glenn: Very hard fighting with it
• Arjun: Racism and bullying
• Bhim: Racism
• Sean: Discrimination and exclusion
• Claire: Discrimination
• Christivan: The discrimination and learning English
• Sarah: I think people may have challenges like racism
• Kelliiee: Racism
• Clara: Stand up to racism
• Donal: To cope with racism and prejudice in mature, adult ways.
• Juvan: To speak and get along with other people.
• Umar: racism
• Darren: being slagged
• Micheal: racism

• Lauren: It can't, only the time we go to bed and food.
• Ronan: Staying another week and more football
• Aodan: Longer stay
• Zurar: More people from different countries
• Adam: last longer
• Lorraine: Stay up later and stay in bed longer
• Hemin: more activities
• Hasib: Very good
• Niamh: More outdoor activities, longer stay, coverage, be allowed to go into boys bedroom.
• Shivani: More pens, longer, more food
• Rosa: to be longer
• Ciara: More water activities and longer
• Joshua: don't know really.
• Christopher: It could be longer
• Daria: I think the food could be improved, but overall everything was really great.
• Glenn: make it longer
• Arjun: Better food and we need a tuck shop
• Bhim: It should be bigger and longer
• Sean: Less language learning, more free time.
• Claire: More free time, less languages
• Christivan: Make it much longer
• Sarah: I don't think it should be improved
• Kelliee: Stay longer
• Clara: Stay longer
• Donal: If it was longer! (2 weeks) and people weren't sent here as punishment
• Juvan: It's the best camp I've been to ever!!!!!
• Umar: More people to make more friends
• Darren: yes
• Micheal: nothing

• Angelika: I like and enjoyed all the games and dances and I had good fun and I would like to come next year.
• Ciaran: I like food
• Florentina: I loved the whole intercultural activities. I think that it was all great and fun and that there should be next camp in 2011
• Lauren: This was the first intercultural summer camp I have gone to. It was funny, made a lot of new friends and it was a good experience
• Ronan: I liked everything. I loved the coasteering
• Aodan: AWESOME
• Zurar: I like coasteering, making new friends, I disliked the soup.
• Adam: learning the languages
• Hemin: I liked the Indian dance
• Hasib: Indian Dance
• Niamh: Class
• Shivani: I learnt new cultures and languages. It was interesting to make new friends
• Rosa: I liked all the activities and I learned dances and singing from other countries. The performance at the end was excellent (especially the break-dancing) and I made loads of new friends. The only thing I didn't like was that it was too short. I hope it's longer next year. The food was good too.
• Ciara: I thought it was a great camp. I liked the coasteering and the dancing. I learned other countries languages songs and dance. I would liked if the camp was longer.
• Joshua: Well I liked all of it, but not bed time
• Christopher: met new people, I learned different languages, I liked meeting new people.
• Daria: When "seeds" called my parents and asked if I would like to participate in the camp I was like "yes". I loved doing coasterring, learning dances from all over the world and learning different languages. The people are amazing and I can't imagine a better way to spend summer. The thing that could be improved is food!
• Glenn: I liked everything and all the people are the nicest people you would meet.
• Arjun: I learnt about different cultures but I liked coasterring and I didn't like the food.
• Bhim: I thought the camp was great and educational. I liked learning languages and coasteering. It was fun meeting people from different cultures, and it was a great time.
• Sean: I made a lot of friends and had a great time but the bedtime should have been later.
• Claire: I made friends and had fun yay!!
• Christivan: I liked the dancing and I learned about a lot of cultures. I made so many friends and I hope I can come back next year. The leaders were brilliant.
• Sarah: My experience about the camp was brilliant and I met lots of nice friends. I learned lots of languages and Indian Dance. The things I didn't like in the camp was the way girls and boys weren't aloud to be in the same room. But other than that I loved it.
• Kelliiee: I love the camp. I learned about people of different nationalities. Liked: people activities, seanan, aideen, jamuna. Dislike: food, going home
• Clara: I loved the camp. I learned about people of different nationalities. Like: people, activities, seanan, aideen, jamuna. Dislike: food, going home
• Donal: as this was the first Red Card Camp in Ireland and there were no pictures of what would be happening, I was hesitant about coming. But now that I have come, I agree with almost everyone that it was amazing! My only feedback is that I think it should be longer (2 weeks) and that people shouldn't be sent here unwillingly (as a punishment)
• Juvan: I loved everything about the camp and hope I can come again next year also. Make it last more than 1 week
• Umar: Experience was good really enjoyed it. The thing which I really liked were the games from the adventure team.
• Darren: Kool
• Shauna: I liked the discos. They were very funny with everyone dancing and I didn't like the coastering. I didn't get in the water and I was afraid of the water. But it was funny.
• Micheal: I liked grandma and my dance partner. I liked all the people.

• ANGELIKA: Polish
• FLORENTYNA: Polish
• LAUREN: Irish
• RONAN: Irish
• AODAN: Mixed- Irish and Uganda
• ZURAR: Kurdis
• ADAM: Irish
• LORRAINE: Irish
• HEMIN: Kurdistan
• HASIB: Kurdistan
• NIAMH: Irish
• SHIVANI: Indian, Tanzanien, English
• ROSA: Irish
• CIARA: Irish
• JOSHUA: Irish
• CHRISTOPHER: Irish
• DARIA: Polish
• GLENN: Irish
• ARJUN: English
• GABRIELLA: Congo- Irish
• BHIM: English/Africa and India/Ireland
• SEAN: Irish
• CLAIRE: Irish
• CHRISTIVAN: South-Afrian
• SARAH: Irish
• KELLIIEE: Irish
• CLARA: Irish
• DONAL: Irish
• JUVAN: South-African
• UMAR: Pakistani
• DARREN: Irish
• SHAUNA: Irish
• MICHEAL: Japanese/Irish