Making Lemonade - Part One Ogontz Music Camp

Referring to the phrase "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade".  Due to requirements of personnel at the office, John was not able to take vacation when he wanted to this year.  While this situation was not happily received by anyone in the family, there were a number of good things that did come out of it.

For years I have pondered going to a Suzuki camp that was in the NH mountains which looked like it would just be a great setting.  After our return to Blue Ridge was foiled I looked into the dates at Ogontz (in NH) and discovered that it was the week after our beach vacation in MA.  The tales of how many connections there were between this camp and Africa is way too long to go into here.  Let's just say it was a fabulous experience and I hope that some of those connections will result in visitors to Zimbabwe....

 The cabins for campers

 Ogontz Lake in the morning mist

 The gathering circle

The African Girls

One of the really cool things that happened was that one of my students from Zimbabwe went to camp with us.  It made it easier for our kids - being older first timers at a Suzuki camp can be difficult and having a friend go with them made it work.  And I had the fun of seeing someone else teach another one of my student (besides Abigail).  The girl on the left is from Tanzania (of German heritage).