Wed Aug 12 – Color War Day 2
The second day of color war was intense – our chanichim were in it to win it!
Shiur on color war focuses on the team names. So while yesterday’s shiur focused on team Navi, today’s shiur was about team Kohen. The campers learned about the roles kohanim played besides priests in the Mikdash. They taught Torah and tried to increase peace among Am Yisrael.
Our schedule, on the second day, included sports activities and swimming races, just like the first day, but then in the afternoon we had a huge camp-wide Chidon in the Indoor Beit Knesset. The questions came from this month’s morning shiurim topics as well as some general Jewish questions. Towards the evening everyone participated in a 90-minute Apache Race that had 44 elements, requiring the help of over 80 individuals total. Usually 1 or 2 chanichim were needed at any given stop/task, like someone to shoot 3 arrows at archery or someone to go across the agam on the zipline, but sometimes a few were needed, like for example 5 chanichim threw a football among each other from the basketball court to the pool. And then sometimes the whole team was needed – to sing this session’s song or to join a water brigade. Every part of camp was used – each field, archery, the agam, the pool, the ropes course…each team tried its hardest to get to the end first, but it was Team Navi who made it, with their baton, to the finish line with the win!
After dinner, we all went to Final Presentations in Indoor World. Each team presented a boys’ rikud, a girls’ glow dance, a team song, a daglanut (flag dance) and the following painted projects: a shelet (team sign on wood), a mechitza, a mincha-maariv sheet holder, an adirondack chair and a garbage can. It took two hours to get through all of the presentations, and then we had to wait a little while, as they finished calculating points to declare the winner… Finally they were ready to declare the winner…and they told us….. it was…. Team…. Kohen! Congrats to all of our Eidah Daled captains and their hadracha (who were a huge source of support) and to all the creative and artistic song-writers, painters and choreographers among the campers and staff who did a great job with all the elements of the teams’ final presentations.
After two very busy and packed days, we are looking forward to returning to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow 🙂 We heard there is late wake-up! Woo hoo!
Machal had a day in Maryland, hiking a trail that took them to a waterfall. Now, onwards to Hershey, PA!
