Reminiscing - PYC South Africa 1996!

I was just tidying up my room and found a brown envelope scrawled with "PYC 1996 RSA" with my camp journal and songs we had sung and pictures the girls did, even a copy of the camp schedule.  Wow.  That was a small camp with just 7 girls and 12 boys but we had a lot of fun. Mr David Fraser was the camp Director.

Some of the campers present might be familiar to you:  Gail Fleetwood (now Lugo), Patrick Hogan, Christine van der Leeuw, David Howard,  Jared Greaser, John Rudolph (son), Godfrey Githinji. 

Here is a song that the counselors sang to the tune of "Love is all Around" (remember this was 1996 when this song was current by the group Wet, Wet, Wet. 

P-Y-C counsellors is what we are today

Campers all around us, We just can't get away!

We sleep and eat with campers 

and dream about them too

We love it when they're happy 

cause that means we are too.

You know we love them, we always will

Such a privelege to do the job we do

We'll be sad when it comes to an end 

But hope to see them all again

La lalalalalalalalal...

We love P-Y-C, oh yes we do

The girls dorm song was to the tune of "Downtown" by Petula Clarke. The Dorm name was FUJE (Feminine, United, Joyful and Encouraging):

Feminine, United, Joyful and also Encouraging

FUJE

We're here to help and support each other

That's why we sing FUJE

So come along and let's make this the best PYC ever

We're priveleged to be here altogether

Don't be shy

Let's have a god time

So forget all your worries, forget all your fears

'Cause we're FUJE

So let's make a vow

To do it God's way

Help make it happen now

F-U-J-E

See more photos from this camp here