Radio Brisvaani
Chinmaya Mission Brisbane conducted their very popular Children’s Camp for the second time this year, during the September school holidays.
The Camp was run by Acharya/ Guru, Swami Shrikaranandaji, who flew over from Sydney along with parent volunteers to make it a memorable experience for the little ones.
Swamiji also conducted various other events throughout the week such as the Adult Retreat, Youth Camps, Satsangs. For more information on upcoming events and classes, please visit http://www.chinmaya.com.au or email chinmaya.brisbane@gmail.com.
Below is the recount of 8-year-old attendee, Rohit, in the form of a letter to his teacher who missed attending the camp this time.
Hari Om Aarti Aunty,
We missed seeing you at the camp this time, and so my letter to you describing how awesome it was.
My two days at the September Chinmaya Mission Kids’ camp were very much fun, and I got an opportunity to learn about Lord Vishnu’s avatars, Matsya and Kurma. On the first day, we played a colour game and we learnt other people’s names. After that we split into our groups, and went through the camp rules. Each group had to pick a camp rule to perform as a small skit for the other groups to guess what the camp rule was. Then, Swamiji told us a story of Kurma avatar. We had lunch, while we were having lunch, the sevaks were provided the story we were going to perform at the end of the camp. Then, we did practice on the skit we got from the sevaks. We then had indoor olympics. In the activity, there were small mini games such as musical statues. After that the first day was finished.
On the second day, we did some yoga and it was all about more fun.After that we heard a story on Matsya avatar. After we had morning tea, we did arts and crafts.In arts and crafts, we made a little piggy bank that has both the avatars we studies in the camp.
This was actually a turtle bank, signifying the avatars! Swamiji also put a special token blessing (to be redeemed at next camp booking) to start off our money bank saving. We had lunch and for lunch we had plenty of pizzas and ice cream. After lunch, we did lots of practice of our skits. Our group skit was about Kurma avatar. In that skit, my character was called “Bali”.
Then, the big performance happened and each team performed their skit. The winners announced and convocation marked the completion of this year’s camp. Sadly, this was the end of the two-day camp.
I loved the opportunity to have fun while learning the meaning and significance and stories about the two avatars of Lord Vishnu, Matsya and Kurma. I cannot wait to attend the next BV children’s camp.
Yours sincerely,
Rohit Segu (8 years)
