Random brilliance: S and I had just finished setting up for the closing ceremony and were chatting as we waited for kids to finish evening prayer. The talent show went pretty fast tonight, so we knew we were ahead of schedule and needed to plan something.
"Hey! Today is 8/8/08! We should do something special!" -S
"It's 7:10pm right now, could we do something at 8:08?" -me
So right then and there we decided that at the end of the closing ceremony, we would take all of the kids outside, arrange them in a giant 8 and then take a photo from the balcony. So at 8:04pm, I was just finishing the closing ceremony and said, "WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING AMAZING! IT'S NEVER GOING TO BE 8/8/08 AGAIN!"
The kids responded with a ROAR of excitement. One of those moments working with kids that I am blown away by their excitement and know I am experiencing pure magic and a memory int he making. I explain what we are going to do and tell them we have to hurry. Everyone JUMPS up, rushes outside and organizes themselves faster than they've ever done anything. We count down 10, 9, 8... until it is 8:08 pm exactly. Everyone jumps up and down and starts cheering.
Perfection.
At highs and lows tonight every Leader-in-Training says that the 8 thing was their high of the day. Such a random thing, no planning ahead, probably 6 minutes, start to finish, but it was unique, memorable, camp perfection.
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