From Nicole

Hey Everybody,

Nicole is stepping up to blog to you all. I am going to put her blog here and I hope you will leave your comments for her.

Nicole, You Go Girl!!!!



I've been trying to work on staying in touch, which I think may be easy for me because I am young I am still interested in some of the things they are. (teens)

Although sometimes I'm afraid to let them know that for fear they may see it as a sign of weakness and I would lose some of the respect they give me.

For example when we took the shelter boys out for lunch... they got in the car and I let them have control of the radio they were all shocked that I knew the words to the songs they wanted to listen to.

Would you all be interested in techniques about staying in touch?

Nicole

New Bloggers

Hello Everyone!

It is SO hot here. About 100 degrees I think. How is it where you are?

Sabina and Nicole have volunteered to learn the blog and try blogging for us all.
That will be very cool.

So I will be emailing them and hopefully you will hear from them soon!

Thanks Nicole for the comment and website.
Hope you all try it out.

Now for some games that we didn't do at training, but you might like to try.



Betcha Never

Ask your youth to come up with something they think is true about them that is not true for anyone else. Give each person a chance to say their name and "I betcha never _____". If someone else did that, then the person has to come up with another unique fact.

Blanket Game

This is a good game to use when youth kind of know each other's names.

Break into 2 teams. One person from each team holds one end of the blanket, so it divides the two groups and no one can see the other side. Each team chooses one person to stand on their side of the blanket facing it. When ready, the blanket-holders drop the blanket and the persons facing each other try to call out the name of the other person first. Whoever loses has to go over to the other side. The side with the most wins.

Cereal Pairs

Good for a large group when you want to have them divide into pairs. Write down on separate sheets of paper the first and last names of cereal. Like "cocoa" and "puffs" and "captain" "crunch" . Each person has to find their cereal mate.

That's all for now!

LA