GLOW Day 2: Self-discovery

 
You are interested in what GLOW girls are doing, aren't you? Today early morning they started their active camp life. Let's follow them!
Each home group has its room decorated with the colors of a circus, as the theme of GLOW summer school this year.

Today the GLOW home groups had a lot to do to become a real team. We believe the first step in this path starts starts with self-discovery. The counselors guided the GLOW campers step by step in the process of self-discovery through character building, recognizing own values, building self-esteem, setting goals and believing in oneself. The afternoon continued with appreciating team work and diversity in general and learning how to be an effective team and a full team member.

What was this iceberg about? What about the Armenian cultural dress, chess, different traditions and customs mentioned on it ... Are you curious to know what they were doing? You are so impatient! Here is the key - the girls were drawing the cultural iceberg. Similar to each person, each culture, each nation has an iceberg of its "characteristics", where there is a whole mentality, a whole lifestyle, past and present hidden.

Let's leave the GLOW girls in their home groups and go for a walk in the yard of the resort hotel. Maybe we could reveal our own iceberg ... Here is a counselor hiding behind the building. Here is another one in the gazebo waving to us. What are they doing?

Finally, we got an explanation from Sona, the coordinator of GLOW summer school 2013. This is scavenger hunt and the girls are looking for treasures going through various circus tricks. All four groups successfully overcame the challenges gaining all the treasures they could! But do they realize that the most important treasure for the day was discovering oneself!

Article by Mane Papyan
GLOW 2013 counselor