Over 200 CSB2010 staff “rained” in on our beautiful, luxurious, and comfortable camp grounds on Tuesday, July 13th, for CSB2010 for 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 Pee Wee, one of our resident MURSES. We were inspired, informed, interested, uplifted, and UPROARed. Following the orientation speeches we followed Sergeant Dembi for a tour of the camp grounds, during which we were introduced to the staff hotel, dining room, bunkhouses, lake, etc. We sang, chanted, and slacked.
We were all Uber psyched to see what came next. On the enormous hill in front of the bunkhouses near the mini-golf course, there was a huge Slip n’ Slide set up for the staff to get a little wet n’ wild. It was truly a Slip n’ Slide like no other, because we don’t just put regular water on our Slip n’ Slides, we go all out, with soapy water, chocolate syrup, and all sorts of other slippery and crazy concoctions. It took a while to get fully recovered from the intensity of the Slip n’ Slide, 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 “Imagine If?’, and plot and plan the most amazing Camp Simcha boys session ever!!!!
We then had a tasty dinner served by our Head Chef Ruevin.
After dinner, we had 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.
A day full of glorious uproaring, über-ness (über is a cognate of both Latin super and Greek meaning hyper, as well as the English over and above), orientation has come to an end. Our campers arrive tomorrow. Can you imagine?