Wed July 10 – Color War Day 2
Our Color War competition between Yeshiva and Kehilla continued today. Again, on-time attendance and impressivce kavanah at the tefillot today 🙂 We hope some of that will stay with us even after Color War!
The teams take turns decorating the Chadar Ochel each meal. Our tzevet – who also made a team to join the fun – takes care of the breakfast meal. Each team has a lunch and a dinner. The Chadar Ochel gets transformed and decorated in a way that reflects the team name or theme. Another great outlet for certain chanichim and their creativity. The schedule today had more sports and competitions in the moring, followed by the Chidon (Questions about Torah and Halacha and what they have been learning in shiur this month) and then the Apache Race. The race is intense and involves so many chanichim doing running, varuious peulot in camp, biking, shooting hoops and more! It takes over an hour and has the teams ALL OVER CAMP with the Roshei Eidah following in a golf cart and the minute-by-minute commentary being broadcasted all over macahane. It is NOT all or nothing. Each team keeps accruing points as they come in first at the stations and stops along the way. The team to bring their baton to the office first was Blue and Yellow/Team Yeshiva!
Tonight’s final presentations included (get ready…there are a lot of things each team had to prepare):
A boys’ rikud (dance) to Jewish music
A skit, maximum 5 minutes long
A girls’ glow-in-the-dark dance with glow skits
Daglanut (israeli-flag dance)
A Team Song (“write a parody to a song which highlights your team name/theme”)
Israeli dance performed by the whole team (they had a peula to learn it)
The following four Melechet Yad projects – a shelet (wooden sign) with your team name, a pasuk and a picture or an image that represents your team; decorate one of our garbage cans (we love seeing those around camp from all the prviosu color wars), paint a zemirot card-holder that we hang in the Chadar Ochel, build and paint a picnic table (the building is mostly done by our Amish neighbors but the team did the final stages).
The presentations were so entertaining and fun – always one of everyone’s favorite nights in camp! And the prjects were so beautiful and had impressive explanations. Even tzevet joined in with their own boys’ rikud and girls’ glow-in-the-dark dance as well as a garbage can and a shelet.
During the last few minutes, while the Roshei Moshava and the Roshei Sport calculated final scores, all of the Bnot Sherut – in camp after working in cities around America – led us in an Israeli dance everyobe learned from them. And then the Roshei Eidah surprised us with a dance too!
They announced the winner by having a race around Indoor World between the Roshei Moshava: Hannah (wearing a yellow cape) vs. Sammy (wearing a red cape) ….and Hannah won!! Yeshiva won! And just like that…Color War was behind us and everyone headed off to bed….zzzzz…… The chanichim really enjoyed these two days and everyone found some way to contribute and use their strengths and talents to help their teams. Kol haKavod to all of our 14 year old captains who led their teams through a busy and hectic two days. Wow!!
Machal spent the day at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC
