Thursday August 15/11 Menachem Av
Boker Tov from Camp Stone Color War!
Yesterday we had our first full day of Color War, which will last through tonight!
The teams are Histadrut HaKlalit shel Ovdim (General Organization of Workers), known as “Histadrut” (Purple & Blue) and Sochnut HaYehudit (Jewish Agency), known as “Sochnut” (Red & Yellow), which are in line with our tochnit for the summer. Both institutions were key in creating and developing Medinat Yisrael. The teams get extra points when their cheers and posters are about their teams or key historical personalities related to their teams.
Yesterday began with Kima done by the team captains, who excitedly woke up the younger campers and got them excited for the day of Color War ahead. Instead of Mifkad by Eidah, we had Mifkad at the Shabbat Mifkad site, with competitions regarding attendance, lining up by birthday, and some other fun.
At tfilah, we came together as one Machane to daven to Hashem at this critical time.
At breakfast, Team Tzevet (Team Olympics) was on Toranut. Team Tzevet is not awarded points as part of the Color War competition, but have much fun cheering and putting together their own cheers and presentations.
Shiur proceeded as usual, with points given for participation.
In the morning, we had two sporting competitions by eidah and gender, with points given for winning those competitions and chering.
Before lunch, we had Mincha and Team Marches, where the two teams marched from opposite sides of camp cheering for their teams. They met in the middle, in front of the office and were taught a new cheer by the Roshei Eidah.
In the afternoon, we had Machanayim, which is kind of like a camp-wide game of dodgeball.
The night tochnit was Olympiada, which is really just a bunch of funky competitions. For example, one Eidah Gimmel boy from each team competed to see who could eat more of a bagel hanging from a baseball bat. The Roshei Eidah came up with many creative competitions.
Machal has been in DC this week and the FIDF program is wrapping up tonight.
