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Fireside ESL Adventures Camp Details
Date: July 14 - August 3, 2013
Age: 14 to 17 years old (co-ed)
Price: $4,299 CDN + 5% GST (includes instruction, food, accommodation, some camping gear, camping fees, and transportation during the trip. Does not include flight and some optional activities.)
Locations: Vancouver, Whistler, Gambier Island, Powell River, Sechelt
Fireside ESL Adventures Tentative Trip Plan - BC
Please note that this trip plan may change.
Day 1: Vancouver/Whistler, Fireside Lodge
- Arrivals between 11am to 6pm (Vancouver International Airport)
- Check-in
- Welcome ceremony and dinner at Fireside Lodge
- Tour of Fireside Lodge
- Email and phone call home
- "Meet and Greet" with staff and youth group
- Mountain Top activity
- ESL Assessment (part one)
Day 2: Whistler, Fireside Lodge
- Review meal preparations
- Leadership Discussion Question: What is leadership?
- Animal Aware - What do when you see an animal (bears, cougars and raccoons)
- Overview of program goals and objectives, review safety and emergency procedures and full value agreement
- Understanding the 5 pillars of Fireside leadership
- Tour Whistler Village and 2010 Olympic sites
- Barbeque Dinner at Fireside Lodge
- ESL Assessment (part two)
- ESL lesson one (3 hours)
Day 3: Whistler, Fireside Lodge
- Morning ESL lesson (2.5 hours)
- Learning and preparing for hike
- Early morning hike
- Hike to Rainbow Lake
- Individual and group goal setting
- Assignment of staff instructors to youth participants
- Team building activities
- Evening ESL lesson (1.5 hours)
Day 4: Whistler, Fireside Lodge
- Morning yoga/stretch
- Problem solving & challenge building activity
- Challenge By Choice Policy
- Hiking 101 workshop
- ESL lesson (3 sessions of 2 hour classes)
- Swim at Whistler Recreation Centre
- Movie Night and resting tired legs
Day 5: Camp Fircom, Gambier Island
- Pack up for Camp Fircom
- Introduction to Camp Fircom (tour, community meeting, expectations and move into teepees)
- Swim and shoreline walk
- Capture the Flag
- ESL lesson (2 hours)
- Evening camp crafts and campfire
- SMORES
Day 6-14: Camp Fircom, Gambier Island
- Canoe and kayak lessons
- Participate in archery, snorkeling, swimming, hiking and wilderness pursuits
- Continuous team building activities
- Overnight canoe and hiking expeditions
- ESL lessons (2- 3 hours per day)
- Eco-Stewardship Project – full day working on an organic farm
- Community Project – building a seed barn
- Learn basics od campsite management, setting up tents and outdoor cooking
- Outdoor International Leadership Skills Training Session:
- Shelter Building
- How to build shelters with debris on the ground
- How to make your shelter waterproof
- Rural and Wilderness Orienteering Course
- How to read a map
- How to use a compass
- How to read the land
- What to do when you are lost
- Animals and Bugs
- What animals and bugs to be mindful of
- Shelter Building
- Shower and clean up after returning from overnight camp in the mountains
Day 15-19: Sunshine Coast
- First night stay in Porpoise Bay Provincial Park and remaining nights at Saltery Bay Provincial Park
- ESL lessons (2 -3 hours per day)
- Meal planning and forestry lesson
- Visit Rolling Earth, Powell River and Gibsons Village
- Beach activities at Robert’s Creek
- Visit tidal pools and nature parks
- Bracelet making
- Leadership questionnaire and vision letter
- Overnight hiking expedition (Saltery Bay Loop)
Day 20: Vancouver (Accommodation: TBA)
- Early departure for Vancouver
- Site seeing and graduation dinner
- Special evening activity
- ESL oral and written exam
Day 21:
- Early departure
- Fly home
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