CHRONICLES OF THE VIRTUAL CAMP
“When will camp be ending? Today? Why today? Why does camp have to end now? I do not want it to end yet…” _Camper, PVVC 2020 The PVVC Experience On August 1, 2020, Pearl Virtual Vacation Camp, the first-ever virtual summer camp organized by the Pearl Club, kicked off with over 40 campers, girls between ages 8 and 16, from across Nigeria, from Canada, England, and the USA. Planning the camp at a time like this, the time of an ongoing pandemic, was, one of the coordinators says, exciting and required a good measure of improvisation: "planning PVVC 2020 was exciting, I was part of a team of wonderful and diligent ladies. I'm grateful for all the pushes I got from my team members, really, and I thoroughly enjoyed all the seminars and get-togethers organized for us coordinators. I had a swell time with my tutees: some of them; I got moved by their innocence, simplicity, utter bluntness, and inquisitiveness. Oh! We got a lot of unexpected questions, *laughing*, questions you...