Activities at the Vancouver ESL Summer Camp Program
Students in the Vancouver ESL Summer Camp experience get the opportunity to explore one of the world's most beautiful cities. Vancouver has been rated by the United Nations as the most livable city in the world for several years in a row. Students in our Vancouver summer camp program get to experience many of the amazing highlights of this city including but not limited to:
- Stanley Park, Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, Granville Island, Grouse Mountain, English Bay, Gastown, Chinatown, West Coast Rainforest,
Other sporting activities include:
- Swimming, Beach Volleyball, Basketball, Skating, Bowling, Cinema, Hockey, Cycling, Inline Skating, Rock Climbing, Football
The Vancouver summer camp program also includes the famous week long adventure camping trip. Here students visit the world class resort Whistler (host of the 2010 Winter Olympics). Students also take a ferry through the beautiful gulf islands over to the famed Vancouver Island where they visit British Colmbia's capital city Victoria. Here the students go on a whale watching trip, sea canoeing or kayaking and much much more.
During the activities, students from different countries are mixed to facilitate immersion. On the bus, the teachers ask the students to sit with someone whom they have not yet met. Here is the chance to meet someone whom you don't know from breakfast or your language lesson. What’s more, this informal contact may be the person to whom you continue writing letters for 10 years as a pen pal! Speaking and hearing English all day allows students to make the best possible progress. Immersion continues even after the classes and lunch. For example, during kayaking lessons, the kayak instructors teach you how to kayak in English. They are certified in their field expertise, as are the other instructors for the specific instruction recreational activity. The teachers will be there to assist you if you do not understand the kayaking instructors. Therefore, students learn English not only from the teachers, but also from Canadians whom they meet during their stay in Canada.
Evening activities involve many different experiences for the students: skating, rock climbing, inline skating, canoeing, etc. Perhaps you have never done a particular activity and you do not think you want to try it, but this is your chance to try something new. Try it before you say no. Wynchemna asks students to try every activity at least once before they decide they do not like it. Wynchemna also asks students who are good at an activity to help students who are not. For example, if you know how to skate, and another student does not, perhaps you can help teach her or him. The teachers from your classes are also there to show you how to skate. Give new activities a chance and you will enjoy yourself. Everything is attitude and how you seize the opportunity.
