Roanoke County camp detected a case of 'Bieber fever' - Roanoke Times

Photos by Rebecca Barnett | The Roanoke Times

Member of staff recreation centre of Green Ridge Kate McHugh, 19, of Roanoke County, Corbin Wilson turns, 8, of the Roanoke County, while playing "plant a kiss of Justin," a game similar to the tail of pins on the donkey, Bieber fever camp on Tuesday. Corbin said he likes to imitate the Justin Bieber dance moves from your YouTube clips.

Kate McHugh aligns Olivia Stanfill, 6 Roanoke with a cut from cardboard Justin Bieber playing "plant a kiss Justin" during a summer called Bieber fever camp. The campers of Roanoke County day in green Ridge Recreation Center were between 6 and 12 years of age.

Mollie Poff, 8 by Roanoke County removes her blindfold to see where it landed its sticker from the lips of a cardboard Justin Bieber cut. Mollie said that it is much to love about Bieber.

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A group of nine estremecidas girls belted to the lyric "as a baby, baby, baby, oh" in unison.

Air conditioning blasting on Tuesday in the Roanoke County Green Ridge Recreation Center was not enough to calm the Bieber fever in sala multiusos C.

It doesn't matter that the pop singing sensation wasn't really there.

Girls fainted in the idea of Justin Bieber in a half-day summer camp theme. They even planted "kisses" on a real size cardboard cut of the singer.

"I really have Bieber fever." One of my friends I hold because I was going to kiss the TV when I was, "said Corbin Wilson, 8, a third gafas-evaluador increase of Glen Cove elementary."

Corbin said she watching YouTube clips of Bieber dancing and spends time every day by imitating their movements or that make up your own. She slipped out of his flip-flops purple and began to roll their shoulders, bobbing his head and his feet to Bieber's "somebody to love". She had example hands heart shaped and held them his chest every time the word "love" played by the speakers of a portable CD player.

Roanoke County, recreation parks and the Department of tourism offer camp Bieber fever for the first time this summer, in response to a growing interest in the fields related to pop culture, Marketing Manager, said Scott Ramsburg. Other offerings include camps based on the TV shows "csi" and "glee", "Harry potter" books and films and American Girl Dolls.

"Try to have something for all ages, every week... play [interest] as many as possible," said the Manager of recreation programs Mandi Smith.

The more traditional aquatic camps, fields of sports and outdoor camps are also offered. Last year, in summer, the center of the 515 youth attended camps. That number doubled this year, with almost 1,100 participants camps so far, said Smith.

$75, Campers Bieber fever - all girls between the ages of 6 and 12 - spend five in the morning in the Centre of rec in wood road refuge immersed in everything related to the crooner, including trivia and choreography.

"" Do "my husband was like," have paid money for that? "" told Jodi Poff, director of spring Elementary School in the cave and the mother of a daughter crazed Bieber.

8 Years Mollie Poff bedroom walls are covered with posters of the singer that she calls "JB". A craft exhibition in Mollie door States: "No boys allowed." Except for my dad and Justin Bieber "according to Jodi Poff."

What about Bieber has these girls watching hearts?

"Hair," said camper Yaelle Sidonie, 11, who is visiting France.

"Anything to do with him," said Katie Everett, 8 by the Roanoke County.

"Because it's adorable." It is what it is. "Because he is adorable, and has a voice really well, said Shuree Bailey, 19, one of the leaders of the camp program.

Kate McHugh, the other leader, said that she was assigned at random. But Bailey asked to work in the camp of Bieber.

"I'm kind of fan," he confessed to Bailey. "I have a 6-year-old sister which is really a fan, so I hear all the time".

On Tuesday morning, each tied campers in a bandanna covering his eyes spun around three times and put a sticker on the abduction of Bieber, style pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. The winner, whose label was closest to the lips of Bieber, was also the highest of the campers: Maggie Crute, 11, a sixth increasing degree of Salem. His prize: succeeded in making the cardboard Justin a real smooch on the lips.

"I kissed Justin bieber," she gushed after. "It was good".