4-H News
Culpeper, Shenandoah, Rappahannock 4-H Camp
July 31st – August 4th 2011
Staff Interviews
Questions:
1. Name
2. What do you teach
3. How many years have you
gone to 4-H camp
4. What do you think when you
hear the word “camp”
5. What is your favourite camp
memory
-Richard
-CPR& Disk Golf
-23 years
-Fun
-When a deer and
fawn watched him
playing basketball
By Danielle Caballero, Alex Engle, and Hannah Orndorff
-Stitches
-EMT
-12 years
-Awesome
-All Campfires
-Google
-skydiving and whale watching / camp
director
-41 camps
- The sound ofChildren laughing and
the look on Rookie’s face when she
found out we put all her clothes in the
lake
- Rhino and Googlre laughing so hard
they peed their pants
-Blue Jeans
- Horse Class
- 11 years
-awesome
- Singing ‚I am one voice’
at Camp fire
-DotCom
-Multimedia & Robotics
-12 years
-good time
-the whole camp
The Inside Scoop on the Staffers
By Danielle Caballero
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Broadway- doesn’t shower or brush her teeth , and is dating Fletch.
Stitches- Stitches and Rookie are competing for Optimus Primes love.
Dot Com- Googles brother , he sucks his thumb when he goes to sleep and sleeps with a blankie and a teddy
bear and has Google read Goodnight Moon every night.
G I Joe- likes to be called princess. A few weeks ago on his Birthday he asked Google to make a birthday cake
that said “ Happy Birthday Princess”
Blue Jeans- She sleeps in a horse stall because it fells more natural to her.
Oakly- is in love with Man Bear Pig.
Elbows- was born with giant elbows and had to get them reduced .
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Newspaper Staff
Carol Nansel- Adult
Kate Layton- Teen
Clarissa Rutherford- Teen
Becky Goldsmith- CIT
Danielle Caballero
Alex Engle
Nicole Freeman
Hannah Orndorff
Nice and tidy… or not
Yudai Hoshino, exchange student from Japan
Aknur Saparova, exchange student from Turkmenistan
Kristina Baumgartner, exchange student from Austria
By Kristina Baumgartner & Clarissa Rutherford
This year’s newspaper staff decided to write a new article for the 4-H News because of the outstanding
decorations, as well as the extremely messy rooms in the lodges. The writers took a tour of each lodge and were
surprised at what they saw. There were many well decorated rooms that contained everything from neon-colored
streamers to a giant paper pink flamingo on a door. In Robinson lodge, where the boys were staying this year, we
were also shocked to find some really messy and somewhat disgusting rooms which had random pieces of food
scattered across the floor, as well as gigantic piles of stinky clothes perched in the corners. Next year we hope
there will be more appealing and clean rooms and fewer messy and dirty rooms. Below we have included pictures
of what we believe to be the best decorated and cleanest rooms and the two rooms that were the dirtiest and
messiest.
Congressman 66
Peters 19
Robinson 31
Robinson 28
Teen Superlatives
Funniest:
Ben Yi and Shadae Mallory
Most Enthusiastic:
Joe French and Kelsey Barklund
Best Great Bears ever!!!:
Greg Czekaj and Sarah Henry
Most caring:
Trey Swindler and Kayla McGhee
Most likely to be in 4-H
forever:
Colton Chapins, Clarissa Rutherford and Sarah Wheatley
Most likely to be friends
forever:
Grayson Love & Randolph Gray
Kelsey Barklund and Emily Elliot
Turkmenistan
By Aknur Saparova
(exchange student from Turkmenistan)
I live in Turkmenistan, in central Asia. My native language is Turkmen, and our religion is Muslim. 83% of our
country is desert. It is the third biggest desert in the world which is called “Garagum”. Our national flag is green and
green is our national color too. It means nature and friendship. We have the biggest lake in the world. It is “The
Caspian Sea”. Even if it is lake, it looks like a sea, because it is very big. This lake is in my city, in Turkmenbashi. The
lake is not far from my home. It takes just 20 minutes by taxi. Our capital is Ashgabat. We call it “White City”,
because every building is white. Our national clothes are long dresses with long sleeves. Some people know that
traditional food of Muslims is “Palov” and it is ours too. My country is a neutral country. In my country, gas, water,
and electricity are free. We do not pay for them. In conclusion, my country is not big, but it is pretty. I am sure that if
you come to my country, you will like it.
Impressions of 4H-camp
By Kristina Baumgartner
Before I came to 4-H camp, I did not really know what it
is about. But in the last few days I got an idea about the
importance of the 4-H club and the camp. In my opinion
it is a great chance for all the kids to go to 4-H camp and I
wish we had such a camp in Austria too. The campers can
enjoy a great offer of classes and very entertaining
program. I think I would not know what I should do first if
I was a camper because everything is so much fun.
Moreover I have seen how important discipline and
organization are. You can really see how experienced the
whole team is. I want to thank everybody for this very
interesting week and hope that you will have a lot more
great camps!
Kristina and Aknur
Japan
By Kate Layton
Special thanks to Yudai Hoshino for the interview
CSR 4-H camp 2011 welcomed three foreign
exchange students this year, one of them being
Yudai Hoshino. Yudai is 15 and will be staying in the
US with a host family while attending an American
high school for a year. His home town is close to
Tokyo where he lives with his mom who is a
librarian, his dad who is an office worker, his 13 year
old sister and some pet fish.
Yudai says the reason he came to America is because
he wants to have the experience of going to an
American high school and learn our culture.
In Japan his favorite activities include playing tennis,
playing games, reading, and listening to music. At
school he has many of the classes that kids in the US
would have, science classes like biology & Physics;
History, Mathematics, Music, PE, and English. The
one main difference is that each student is required
to take a class about Japan where unlike our English
classes kids learn about culture, traditions, and the
history of Japan in addition to just the language.
Yudai doesn’t like studying much; he prefers to stick
to sports with his favorite class being PE. He’s not
sure yet what kind of job he would like to have in the
future but says he might go to university after high
school.
In Japan there is a camp somewhat similar to 4-H
camp called Lex camp. There are different kinds of
Lex camps like youth camp or a camp that helps you
learn things before you do a home stay. A home stay
is when you get to go and stay with a family for a
period of time and learn their culture. After Lex
camp Yudai went to stay with a family in Korea, he
says he enjoyed it very much.
Our western culture has made it over to Japan in the
form of sports; baseball is very popular as well as
Soccer (football). The Japanese culture still does
prevail with Martial arts such as Judo, which is
popular, and Fencing with a sword similar looking to
the Samurai but not crafted to cause any injuries.
Yudai says things are pretty different here than in
Japan, but he likes it so far.
Continued Inside Scoop from page 1• Rhino – Google’s her best friend. She bathes
in the lake.
• Man-Bear-Pig – collects latex gloves. He is the
current world record holder of the amount of
sugar packets eaten in 15 seconds (36
packets).
• Optimus Prime – is a robot on the inside and is
364 years old. He goes to each 4-H Camp
around the world for 5 years.
• Fletch – his face is always red because he’s
embarrassed that he’s in love with Caterpillar.
• Caterpillar – is in love with Fletch. They
bonded over their love of tater tots.
• Bits – was raised by horses.
• Dori – wears white flip flops everywhere, even
to a ball!
Special thanks to Google for sharing the “inside scoop”
with us! She knows it all!