Oy vey, what is happening with this generation?!? When I was a kid, my mommy taught me that fruits were my friends. All ailments, from flat tires to stubbed toes, were blamed on my lack of my fruits. But sometime recently, the fruit ninja came along, and fruits became the mortal enemy that you practiced your kung-fu on.
Well today Camp Simcha went bananas (b-a-n-a-n-a-s) as we sharpened our swords and unleashed all that pent up energy from eleven months away from camp. After a morning fire-drill, to preclude any fried bananas in camp, we hurried to our morning activity. Joseph headed to the newly built fencing workshop under Matt’s place. It was there that he practiced his ninja skills. He perfected his sword fighting, swung his ninja chucks, and broke wood boards with his bare hands. Meanwhile, Ori Michael headed out to the pottery shop where he painstakingly created a beautiful fruit bowl. After all, all those fruits that Joseph will be choppin’ up has to go somewhere.
Towards the end of lunch, we all gathered in the middle of the dining room where we heard a rockin’ concert from our own personal band: The Tikunei. The campers danced, climbed on staff members’ shoulders, and screamed in a Tikunei Twelve rendition of uproar. Over lunch, we had a group of visitors from Wall Street. After observing just a few moments of our lunch upROAR, they were thoroughly convinced that they are supporting the best possible cause. Many of them opted to join in on the fun, and sing and dance with our awesome campers. They seemed to be having just a bit more fun than they’ve had in a while (After all, SimchaWorld is just a bit more exciting than CubicleWorld).
From lunch, we headed back to our ninjous activities. We had watermelon eating, seed spitting, and lemon squeezing contests in which our campers all dominated our staff, of course! And when the rain started, we just raised the intensity level. After all, “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; It’s about dancing in the rain.”
And to cap off the day, we had Eugene the magician come down and teach us the dark magic behind ninjing. Oh what a first day!