July 12, 2006 – CSP Day 3
Jaymiah’s Day

My CSAP team is the West River Team. We did a video challenge. We had to do three things. We had to summarize a Solar Youth article. We did a puppet about polluting the Long Island Sound. Then we had a thirty second dance; we threw trash on the ground and then we picked it up. We also made a song called “The Ocean Blues.” That was fun because a lot of people were laughing. People put silly things in the songs but we put it in anyway and I fell out of my chair! We played golf. My partner was Naomy. It’s hard. If we had a competition Naomy would win. We did a game. It was about the Long Island Sound. There’s three people and they represent the three rivers. And the other people playing are the Long Island Sound. We called out categories, like your favorite color or what color shirt you had on. The people who fell into the category had to run across, from one side to another, without getting caught by the Rivers. If you got caught you had to link to the person that caught you. In the end, whichever river had the most people won. I made a lot of friends on my team and I know a lot of names now because of the teams. My team leaders are Nicole, Claire, Sonia and Sara supposed to be but she was filling in for Edward. When we were doing the song, our team was embarrassed so we had to do it like four times before we got all the words out. Wow. I have one more thing. When we were playing gold, Shemar accidentally let go of the club and made a hole in the gym wall. He did, I’m serious. If you go, you can walk and see it.


The Inner Workings of CSP
Snack Magoo

Every day at camp, around 2:50pm, the campers and staff invoke the Snack Magoo ("I'm not Mister Magoo!" he sings) to feed them a healthy afternoon snack. It's actually Mister Gammy, dressed up and fabulous! His song goes:

It's not Mister Magoo
It's the Snack Magoo
Come and get your snack
You won't get heart attack
It's snack time
It's snack time
It's snack time
So let's sing a rhyme
Eating is not a crime
Just wait your turn in line
And put the trash in a bin
All of the time

Solar Youth believes in a happy, healthy and successful youth, so we not only provide a creative and hands-on curriculum, but encouraging water-drinking (instead of sodas or sugary juices) and a giving the students a healthy snack, such as Nutri-Grain bars and Fig Newtons.

Besides, it's funny to watch Mister Gammy dress up and be silly.