Crazy, we are already on week three. Over the weekend I typed up scores of material produced by the campers - and was extremely impressed by what I read. Everyone who attended in the past two weeks (some disappeared briefly for family vacations) had something dynamic, creative, amusing or thoughtful to offer in their writing.

Last week was particularly successful, generating metaphors and hyperboles. These past two days have been a bit of a challenge, however, as we press on into simple verse forms. Honetly, I find HAIKU to be an interesting puzzle - how much can you say with so little - but as the writing sessions have all taken place in the afternoon, it is difficult to keep some of the younger campers in their seats.

I need more physical writing activities.

This morning, I sat in part of Bobby's session, getting the campers up to speed on the basics of opera, and some fundamental background on the history of technology in popular music. Members of Opera Cleveland will be visiting the site on Thursday, and we will travel to the Rock Hall on Friday.

Later, Rachel and I worked with Tim's kids on scenes from classic drama. After a week or working on emotional awareness and improvised scenarios based around an existing text (THE SNEETCHES) the campers were really looking forward to have scripts in their hands. We are creating several dynamic scenes on the subject of CONFLICT RESOLUTION.