Tuesday June 30 – Chutz Day 2
The pictures say it all – it has been very sunny and warm weather at our Chutz this year, and so fun and relaxing to hang out cooking around the fire for hours. There is so much shade from the hundreds of trees, and there is plenty of water, so it is easy for everyone to cool off when they want a break from the heat. The campers really enjoy getting to know nature, while playing and talking with others of all ages. The Melechet Yad tent was open for activities all day, and tefillot broke up the day and helped us keep to some sort of schedule – otherwise we really wouldn’t know what time it is 🙂
After tefillah, everyone was served a simple cereal-and-milk breakfast before shiur began (the real meal came after…stay tuned!) The Shiur today was by eidah, and each eidah learned about the 5 modern-day aliyot, their leaders, emphases and goals. For example, “Baron Rothschild” spoke to them about the youth groups that made Aliyah, his financial support and how they had to rid swamps of malaria. Thank you Elza and Beni, our Roshei Beit Midrash, and the morim for this excellent presentation done in 5 stations with 5 skits!
Following shiur, the fires were lit and away the kids went…for hours… Each group (a plugah, led by eidah daled campers and supervised by madrichim) was given ingredients (bread, eggs, cheese etc) and they spent hours making whatever they could think of to eat: scrambled eggs, french toast, grilled cheese… the traditional and legendary never-ending breakfast 😊 It was yummy and fun!
Another movie will be projected up on the big screen tonight, and then tomorrow morning the whole camp returns. Eidah Daled stays behind to help plugah do the clean-up. With great privilege comes great responsibility 🙂
Machal spent the day at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC (followed by a sicha) and then had a few hours to walk around the National Mall (lovingly nicknamed “America’s front yard”), visiting the Smithsonian museums. They drove to Hershey, PA and slept at a campground there.
