Picture this: Ben Gurion International Airport – A thoroughfare for busy travelers, tired from hours of travel and from security shoe removals, anxious to finally arrive at their destination. Thursday night the airport was operating as usual, with no clue with what was about transpire in just a few hours. Beginning at 3:30 in the morning, some not having slept the whole night – others catching a glimpse of shut eye – 35 energetic, spirited, enthusiastic (and wild) male and female Camp Simcha counselors, studying in Israel for the year, spread the Simcha joy to all passengers regardless of who they were, receiving many different reactions – many laughs, some blessings, and a hint of a smile from even the most serious of patrons. It was then that we, the group that had boarded the plane, deboarded the plane, reboarded the plane during the past 48-hours, finally emerged. Tired, worn out, (and smelly), it was incredible what hit us. A “Camp Simcha Welcoming” in the Holy Land of Israel! If anyone was still groggy from our adventures of traveling…this sure did the trick. Costumes and signs, singing and dancing, food and drinks, we knew we had arrived to our final destination. We knew we arrived to our homeland.
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Wish at the Wall: Here we come!