Sunday, July 15, 2012

Visiting Day!


We had a great Shabbat this weekend! The Chotrim had a very funny Oneg Shabbat on Friday night. Oneg Shabbat happens every Friday night after dinner and before Israeli dancing (rikud). Each week a different age group (shickvah) puts on a short play written by themselves or their counselors (madrichim). 

The play always has a theme and is always funny filled with inside jokes from the summer. This week the Chotrim performed their oneg shabbat in front of the camp (machaneh) and everyone enjoyed it. Although Shabbat was lovely, all of the campers (chanichim) were anticipating today....visiting day!








We had a great visiting day today! All of the chanichim, madrichim and parents had a wonderful time! The food everyone brought looked delicious and all of the chanichim were very happy about the amount of candy their parents brought for their kupa! 

The day began with all of the chanichim anxiously waiting at the top of the hill in the parking lot for their parent's car to pull into machaneh. As soon as the car is spotted the campers (chanichim) ran down the hill to greet their parents with a big hug! Each family scoped out the best picnic area and enjoyed a picnic lunch together. Our "adopted campers" today were well fed and had a lot of fun hanging out with their friend's families!

After lunch everyone gathered in front of the Moadon for the traditional Visiting Day song and a welcome speech by the director of camp (rosh machaneh), Kali Silverman. The chanichim sang Splendor Bridge by Sam Flesher, a Habonim Dror alum. Everyone then split up by age groups (shkavot) to play fun games with the parents, chanichim, and madrichim. Despite the rain everyone still had a great time and we were able to utilize all of our indoor space at Galil

After all of the chanichim said goodbye to their parents and families we went back to a normal schedule. Everyone went to their interest groups 

(chuggim) and were gladly sharing all of the food with each other that they received today! Everyone is stuffed but had a great day and we are all looking forward to movie night tonight!





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