To be honest, Jamie has never been particularly effective at games of strategy. He tends to focus on the goal and go straight for it, without reacting what the other player may be doing, or thinking about playing defense. It would seem, however, that he has just decided to focus all his skills on Connect Four. After the main part of the camp day is over they get the kids together and give them some time to sit and play games together, and in this time Jamie has established a reputation as a master of Connect Four.
This skill seems to have both positive and negative results. On the one had he's clearly earned some cred around camp. Sarah came to pick up them up once and discovered Jamie playing with a crowd around watching. Just as she got there, he dropped a checker in to make not only a connect-four, but a connect five. As the crowd oooh-ed, Jamie saw Sarah and just walked away, completely casually, like he'd done it a million times.
On the other hand I think this skill can create tension. He has a particular friend who he's been going to camp with the past three weeks. The give them awards every week and last week the two of them got the "Thunder and Lightning" award for being such good buddies. Jamie was pleased with this because he remembers getting the "Best buddies" award with Will 2 summers ago (see earlier post). However, one day this week I came in to pick him up and found his friend sitting alone in front of an empty Connect Four game, looking rather put out. Jamie was playing outside. Didn't get details but it seems Connect Four got in between Thunder and Lightning, if only briefly.
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