Over 200 CSB2011 staff “rained” in on our beautiful, luxurious, and comfortable camp grounds today for CSB2011 orientation. After a delicious lunch and some general bonding time, meeting new and greeting old, we went to the Social Hall to hear orientation speeches from Dembi, Rabbi K, Rochel Katz (our Head Nurse), and Shaindy Lowenthal, our program director. We were inspired, informed, interested, uplifted, and UPROARed. Following the orientation speeches, we followed Sergeant Dembi for “Staff Boot-Camp” during which we received a tour of the camp grounds, and were introduced to the staff hotel, dining room, bunkhouses, lake, etc. We sang, chanted, and denounced slacking.
We were all EPICly psyched to see what came next. Dembi led us to the baseball field where the rain-storms, with the help of some water hoses, had turned the field into a muddy mess. That didn’t stop us; we divided into two teams and had a massive dodgeball game in the mud. It was a great way to psych us up, and set the tone for the summer.
Following a tasty dinner, served by our Head Chef Ruevin, we heard a speech by Rabbi Simcha Scholar, Chai Lifeline’s Executive Vice President. He inspired us to work together as one heart, and one soul, to make this summer amazing for our campers. We also heard from Dr. Wexler, who filled us in on what these children go through the rest if the year. To once again get us in the right mind set, we were shown a part of last year’s video. The lights were then turned off, the disco lights turned on, and we stamped and danced until we were utterly zonked.
It took a while to get fully recovered from the intensity of the mudsliding and dancing, but once we managed to recover ourselves, we all split in our respective divisions and had our first meeting get the down-low on this years theme “Great Simcha Escapes’, and plot and plan the most amazing Camp Simcha boys session ever!!!!
A day full of glorious uproaring and EPICification, orientation has come to an end.
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