Thursday, July 31, 2008

Time Travel

Today the Madatzim continued their revolution of time travel. They stayed up late last night preparing a gourmet breakfast of crepes and fresh fruit for the chanichim. Afterwards, everyone was transported to pre-historic times, where chanichim had to catch roaming woolly mammoths. From there, everyone received a taste of the Wild West, Industrial Revolution, Renaissance, Atlantis and even reenacted the Trojan Horse

Territorial battle ensued after lunch with a game of capture the flag. This quickly transformed into the Viking age, sailing the rocky seas of the machaneh slip-'n-slide. Later on, chanichim had to earn their way through different time periods by manipulating their way through an obstacle course. Times turned medieval with chanichim putting on a jousting and fencing show for the king and queen.

Chanichim thought their day was complete with a pirate-themed mesibah, but the Madatzim had other plans up their sleeve. Everyone was brought to the brecha where the kicked out madrichim awaited what we call Crime and Punishment. The Madatzim have the madrichim line up around the brecha and one by one read out a crime for which the Madatzim believe the madrich should be charged. Personally, I was guilty of having too great a moustache. After the madrichim are convicted of the charges, they are forced to accept their punishment, walking the plank into the brecha in whatever clothes they were unlucky enough to wear at the time. 

The entire day was a whirlwind of traveling for all, and ultimately led to a very restful sleep back in their present day tzrifim.

B'shalom,
Josh

Madatzim - counselors in training
chanichim - campers
machaneh - camp
mesibah - party
brecha - pool
madrichim - counselors
tzrifim - cabins

No comments: