Girls:
- Comfortable walking shoes: dress shoes, casual shoes, crocs, flip-flops, sandals, tennis shoes... just about anything is fine for both in the classroom and outside the classroom. You'll be doing ALOT of walking so make sure you bring comfortable shoes.
- Classroom: Skirts/Top, Pants or Capri's/Top or dresses are all fine.
- No spaghetti straps
- Skirts/dresses need to be as close to the knee as possible
- Shorts are not appropriate in the classroom.
- Not sure if your clothing is appropriate length, etc? Stand in front of the mirror. Lift your arms up, bend over, crouch down to the ground, sit in a chair, sit on the floor, etc. Make sure you can't see any cleavage, stomach or too much leg, etc. We want to be extra modest to not ruin our witness there, as well as to protect the guys on our team and not make them struggle.
- Evening/Weekend: Comfortable clothes. Nothing too short (walking shorts are fine. Tank tops are fine as long as the straps are thick and you're not showing too much skin)
- Jeans - After the first week or two, jeans will be fine. Please do NOT wear them the first week of school.
- Please do NOT wear any crosses, fish symbols or scripture on your clothes.
Boys:
- Comfortable walking shoes: dress shoes, casual shoes, sandals, tennis shoes... just about anything is fine both in the classroom and outside the classroom. You'll be doing ALOT of walking so make sure you bring comfortable shoes.
- Classroom: pants and polo/button-down type shirt.
- Evening/Weekend: Comfortable clothes. Nothing too short (walking shorts are fine. Please no wife-beater type shirts)
- Jeans - After the first week or two, jeans will be fine. Please do NOT wear them the first week of school.
- Please do NOT wear any crosses, fish symbols or scripture on your clothes.
If you are breaking any of the clothing rules, we will take you to a nearby store and have you buy a new wardrobe. Please ask if you have any questions about whether something is appropriate or not! :)
In general, you want to dress up a little bit more the first week. It helps the students think of you as teachers and respect you as such. Once you are confident in your classroom and have good classroom control, you can dress a little more casually.
How much clothing should you bring?
Your students (and many who work at the school and other locals) will most likely own 2 pairs of clothes. School clothes and evening/weekend clothes. So they will probably wear the same thing every day of camp.
If you can, mix and match and re-wear clothing as much as possible so you don't have to pack as much. Also remember that you'll be washing your clothes (the hotel has a washing machine down the hall) and line-drying them. Because it's humid, it can take a couple of days for your clothes to dry... the more clothes you have drying, the longer it takes to dry.
David and I tend to bring 2 pairs of 'school pants' (Amber usually wears khaki style capri's) and 3-4 polo's that we plan on wearing for the whole camp. Then we bring a couple of t-shirts, couple pairs of shorts and a pair of jeans for evenings/weekends. David usually brings 2 pair of comfortable shoes (generally indoor soccer shoes) that he can switch when one pair gets wet from the rain. Amber usually brings 2 pair of sandals (crocs and a pair of walking sandals) and maybe some tennis shoes. Hope this helps! :)
If you can, mix and match and re-wear clothing as much as possible so you don't have to pack as much. Also remember that you'll be washing your clothes (the hotel has a washing machine down the hall) and line-drying them. Because it's humid, it can take a couple of days for your clothes to dry... the more clothes you have drying, the longer it takes to dry.
David and I tend to bring 2 pairs of 'school pants' (Amber usually wears khaki style capri's) and 3-4 polo's that we plan on wearing for the whole camp. Then we bring a couple of t-shirts, couple pairs of shorts and a pair of jeans for evenings/weekends. David usually brings 2 pair of comfortable shoes (generally indoor soccer shoes) that he can switch when one pair gets wet from the rain. Amber usually brings 2 pair of sandals (crocs and a pair of walking sandals) and maybe some tennis shoes. Hope this helps! :)
