Another Fun Day at Machaneh!

Good Afternoon (tzohoraim tovim) from Camp (machaneh) Galil! This morning, we awoke to a rainy machaneh, but not rainy enough to impact our daily activities. We had our special Sunday morning breakfast of bagels today, because tikkun olam cut into our breakfast on Sunday, which was a pleasant surprise. We had chores (avodot) and cabin cleaning time (nekayon tzrif) as usual after breakfast, and by the time that nekayon tzrif ended, the sun was high up in the sky. Today during age group discussions (peulot), the Amelim (post-third and fourth graders) were at the pool for instructional swim.

A few of the Amelim having fun at free swim!

 The Chotrim (post-fifth graders) were practicing an Israeli dance to preform in front of machaneh on Friday, during Shabbat. Each week, a different age group (shichva) sings a song in Hebrew, one in English, and preforms an Israeli dance, so the Chotrim will be preparing for that over the next few days. The Sayarim (post-sixth graders) spoke about how being at machaneh each summer means more than just going to a summer camp, because we are a part of a movement. They spoke about their place in the movement and how that will change and grow as they get older. The Tzophim (post-seventh graders) continued to plan for their play (oneg). The Bonim (post-eighth graders) were split in half again, with half on high ropes again. The half that was on ropes yesterday spent their time playing cards together. The Bogrim (post-ninth graders) were at their frisbee tournament all day.

A Tzopher and a Sayar during chugim.

This tournament, which is usually an annual event for the Bogrim-aged kvutsa, took place at a JRF (Jewish Reconstructionist Federation) Camp nearby. Our Bogrim went and met with four other camps (including the JRF) to play a competitive (but friendly!) tournament of frisbee. They just arrived back to machaneh before dinner, and they told us that it was really fun and exciting to meet everyone and play! They also won the "Most Spirited" award, which makes sense because our chanichim definitely have the most spirit out of any camp in the area. Anyway, after peulot ended, sports began. It was incredibly hot again today and many of the older kids weren't there, so sports were not very high energy. A good amount of kids came to free swim afterwards, which was not surprising. Afterwards, we went to lunch, and then had rest time (menucha). We continued for the rest of the day with our usual schedule. Many of the electives (chugim) finished watching movies that they'd started, which was a very fitting activity for the weather, because it started pouring this afternoon for a little while!

Chanichim dressed up for last nights Bozmon.

 Strangely enough, though, the weather completely turned around again and has stayed sunny for the remainder of the afternoon and evening. During zmagshama (actualization time), one of the groups planned a machaneh-wide activity that will be run tonight as the evening activity (tochnit erev)! The activity consists of separating into the different schavot, and from that point, separating into two or three groups per shichva. Then, they will play a few fun challenge games against each other. Besides that, nothing out of the ordinary happened today. Tomorrow, on the other hand, will be a special day (and one of our favorite days at machaneh!). So, check back in tomorrow to find out just what will be going on!