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-New Next Week
The Andover/North Andover YMCA is raffling off 2 tickets to the
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Otter
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THE LOREM
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Uganda/Texas: First Place
What has been your favorite activity in Otter
Olympics?
- “The boating relay race yesterday” (Aurora,
Audrey, Nick)
- “High Ropes relay race with lots of
teamwork” (Paige, Alex)
- “Tug of War” (Amber)
- “Spud on field” (Anna)
- “The gauntlet water relay on court with the
cups” (Kayla)
- “EVERYTHING” (Yvette)
Why do you think your country should win?
- “WE work well as a team and cheer a lot”
(Paige)
- “WE try our best and even though we don’t
have as many older kids we still preserve”
(Doug)
- “We have the best attitude, spirit, flag and
we are so good we need a country and a
state” (Nick O.)
- WE have good spirit, teamwork,
sportsmanship
What is your favorite country chant/cheer?
- “What are UGANDA do about it?”
- “^Clap clap^ CLUCK! ^Clap clap^ CLUCK
because our country flag has a chicken”
What do you think would make Otter Olympics
better?
- “If Carissa was on my country”
- “Chasing capture the flag through the swap
and woods! EXTREME CAPTURE THE FLAG”
- “All camp stooflepump”
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Russia: Second Place
What has been your favorite activity in Otter
Olympics?
- “Swimming activities” (Max, Isabel, Victoria)
Why do you think your country should win?
- “Spirited, good counselors, good people”
(Max)
- “Good kids” (Isabel)
- “Nice to other countries, we worked really
hard on the mural” (Victoria)
What is your favorite country chant/cheer?
- “The one where we clap at the end” (Isabel)
- “Boogie” (Victoria, Max, Caitlin)
Madagascar: Third Place
What has been your favorite activity in Otter
Olympics?
- “Arts and Crafts” (Jason)
- “Boating and tippy canoe” (Owen)
- “Kickboard races” (Elise)
- “Tug Of War” (Elizabeth)
Why do you think your country should win?
- “Chants” (Elise)
- “I want Madagascar to win in real life”
(Jason)
- “We did good in tug of war” (Owen)
- “Spirited team” (Elizabeth)
What is your favorite country chant/cheer?
- “Move it move it” (Jason)
- “Look where the winners are” (Elise)
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Albania: Fourth Place
What has been your favorite activity in Otter
Olympics?
- “Tug of War” (Chase, Little Pinto,)
- “Swimming (Mya)
- “Archery” (Alex)
Why do you think your country should win?
- “They have me on the team” (Little Pinto)
- “Good team spirit and pride” (Thomas)
- “We put a lot of effort into it” (Brian)
- “Gut feeling” (Jaythan)
What is your favorite country chant/cheer?
- “1,2,3,4” (Brian)
- “Team Albania has Olympic mania” (Ian)
Greece: Fifth Place
What has been your favorite activity in Otter
Olympics?
- “Tug of war” (Catherine, Brooke,
Mackenzie)
- “Playing ultimate dodgeball” (Ian)
Why do you think your country should win?
- “We try hard every day” (Catherine,
Mackenzie)
- “We’re working together” (Ian)
- “We’re awesome” (Brooke)
What is your favorite country chant/cheer?
- “TOGA” (Catherine)
- “Brrrr” (Mackenzie)
- “Greece is beast” (Brooke, Ian)
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Canada: Sixth Place
What has been your favorite activity in Otter
Olympics?
- “Tug of War” (Hannah)
- “High ropes/low ropes” (Ben, Brady)
- “Archery” (Gilbert)
Why do you think your country should win?
- Teamwork, “We believe that we can
win” (Gilbert)
- “Good, loud cheers” (Brady)
- “Most spirit” (Josiah, Hannah)
What is your favorite country chant/cheer?
- “Fancy” parody (Hannah, Gilbert, Brady)
“Red and white, fight fight fight”
CIT/JC Happenings
Without the help of the CITs and JCs, Otterlympics would not have
been possible. I am very proud of the CITs and JCs for stepping up
and taking on leadership roles this week!
The CITs were divided amongst the 6 countries and helped make
Otterlympics enjoyable for everyone on their countries! CITs
engaged the campers by leading cheers and chants and
participating along side of the kids! This week in our CIT meeting,
CITs had a great discussion about Otterlympics and what it really
means to be “FTK” (For The Kids).
The JC’s spilt up into two groups this week and ran the all camps
at upper and lower camp! A special shout out to JC’s Mackenzie
Cochrane and Meghan Dunbar for leading the two JC groups!
Otterlympics was a great learning experience for the JC’s, they
learned how much time and effort is put into planning all camps!
They learned how to be flexible and to think on their toes so that if
an activity isn’t going as planned, they are able to make changes
to ensure that the events are successful! In the afternoon, the
JC’s assisted in running events at the program areas and
awarding points to the countries!
Here are some pictures of the CITs and JCs during Otterlympics!
“Be the kind of leader that you would follow.” - Becca
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New This Week
Week 6: H2Otter Week!
Special Guest: Salem Fire Department
Wednesday Night: Family night! Come enjoy a
cookout, and program activities with your whole family!
Thursday Night: 10 – 14 Boys Overnight
Friday Store Special: Five Dollars off Sweatpants!
Dress up Day: Luau on Friday! Don’t forget your
floral shirts and hula skirts!
All Camp: Cabin Assassin (Wednesday)
Anything But Floats (Friday)
****Please send in Bottles, Water Jugs, Soda bottles
etc. that can be used for our anything that floats
competition!
Snapfish!
We have made a Camp Otter Snap Fish account with the
pictures in this issue and hundreds more from the past five
weeks!
www.snapfish.com
Username: cackroydco14@gmail.com
Password: CampOtter
Here is a majority of the
information that you will need this
week. If you have any questions or
any feedback for the newsletter
feel free to call the camp office at(603)-893-4911
Thanks for Reading!
-Carissa Ackroyd, Program Director