Chess Camp

For the first four days of last week (Monday-Thursday) and today (Monday of the next week), I volunteered at a chess camp.
The first four days were very chaotic. We were at the Bel-Red Bilingual Academy, and camp was full of people who either barely knew how to play, didn't know how to play, or had a basic knowledge of how some of the pieces moved. Most of them spoke English, but there were a few that could barely speak English, and it rapidly became my job to assist them. It was hard, but they improved a lot over the course of the camp. The thing that annoyed me the most was how noisy and chaotic they were - imagine a bunch of five-year-olds stuck in a room for two to three hours learning to do something they don't really have that much interest in.
Today was much better - the players were all decent, and all spoke English. As most of them were around ten years old, it was a lot more peaceful. However, there was still quite a bit of ruckus. It was a lot easier to teach than Bel-Red though.
In the future, I would like to volunteer at the middle school chess club and at future camps.

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