Rainy Day Activities

Today’s rainy weather was the perfect atmosphere for Madatz peula. Many of the campers (chanichim) spent today making warm and fuzzy’s for themselves. Warm and fuzzy’s are books that the chanichim make and then pass to their friends to write nice messages. The Madatz set up mattresses, soft music and supplies to make the books in our indoor spaces at machaneh and the chanichim spent the morning writing nice messages to each other. Some chanichim like to wait until after they cross the bridge on the last day of camp to open their warm and fuzzy books to see what their friends wrote. The books are a nice reminder of the fun summer the chanichim had as well as a reminder of all of the friendships they created at machaneh. 

The rainy weather did not stop Friday pizza lunch! The buffet was still set up outside, but on the porch of the dining hall (chadar ochel). Inside the chadar ochel the benches were set up just like Hyde Park and we still had our normal Friday afternoon. Instead of the chanichim standing on the rock when they had something to say, they stood on a bench. Many of the chanichim that are leaving on Sunday, thanked Galil for giving them a great summer!

The tzophim also spent today practicing for their kabalat shabbat. Every Friday night a different age group (shikvah) performs an English song, a Hebrew song and an Israeli dance. The tzophim have been practicing all week and are excited to show the machaneh tonight how hard they’ve been working! 

Since this is the last weekend of first session, tomorrow night is final mesibah! Final mesibah is a party that we have on the last night of camp which of course like everything else here has a theme! The theme will be revealed tomorrow night and the mesibah will be filled with fun stations, lots of candy, music and of course dancing! 

We will miss everyone who is leaving on Sunday! 

Shabbat Shalom!