Camp Simcha & Camp Simcha Special
Simcha Magic: Feel It In The Air!
Welcome to Camp Simcha Special Boys Session 2016! We opened up camp with a bang with the arrivals. Each camper was welcomed into camp with his very own tunnel made up of hundreds of energetic and excited staff members itching to meet everyone. DJ Jon was blasting incredible beats for hours upon hours, and the energy was unstoppable. #ColorCraze16 is moving at full force, and we can’t wait to see what comes next!
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Breakfast was a blur this Tuesday morning with the first of the busses set to pull out soon and last-minute hugs being doled out. These past two weeks were composed of the longest moments, and yet they struck by so fast that here we are on the last morning pondering the impossibilities of time. Because camp moments are the kind that you try to re-live a thousand times over, but in real time, they were moving and loud and only moments long.
So, while another Camp Simcha Summer ends, the countdown till Simcha 2017 automatically begins again.
In 3…2…1…..
The magician’s stage has been overtaken by the one, the only SIMCHA LEINER!!! While impatient good byes lurk in the shadows, we are fighting off the “last day” blues with concert craziness and Monday night magic. Once again, and for the last time this session, our girls are hitting the dance floor hard and making it count.
Tables caped in black, layers of cards decked out, only to be matched by red spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds centering each table, that was the dining room decor tonight in honor of our very last magician’s dinner here in Camp Simcha. Our banquet was transformed by the lingering sense that this was almost “Goodbye Time,” but Simcha knows how to put up excellent distractions. With a concert scheduled for later on tonight and fireworks by the lake at midnight, there might just be a wedge of time tomorrow morning for goodbyes…but for now, we are just letting one final wave of Simcha magic wash over us…
Our Great Big Thank You Ceremony is underway as we share our appreciation for the greatest, most incredibly committed staff of any camp in the East! From the counselors who accompanied each of our girls through every special activity, artistic workshop and moment by moment memory made up of color-crazed paint dabs and the stirrings of mid-day helicopter propellers, to the specialty staff complete with lifeguards, waitresses and workshop aids. A round of applause for our media staff, snapping photos and working all session to produce a memory laden video capturing every day flash-backs of the summer. Last, but certainly not least, our wonderful head staff deserves the greatest Jumbo-Sized Simcha Thank You ever! Their planning, scheduling, organizing and then rescheduling in the face of rainstorms and other most wonderful surprises, is what makes our head staff the most valuable Camp Simcha asset.
After a Thank You Ceremony topped with cheering and musical introductions, our campers relived some of their past two weeks of Color-Crazed madness watching the camp video put together by our Media Staff (Thanks again guys!) and then it’s on to banquet, a last festive farewell before the goodbye waterworks really kick in…
Pick a card, any card, yeah that’s right take that one right over there. Look at it and memorize it very well…
Black capes are swaying mysteriously in a windless fog, top hats are bowing and revealing pale, white rabbits appearing unexplainably from beneath red, velvet folds. Camp Simcha has entered a world of Magic and Mystery on our very last day of Simcha Girls 2016! The dining room drapes thick black and red curtains and endless piles of cards, just waiting for a quick pair of hands and a willing audience to amaze.
Have you memorized your card yet? Stick it back in the deck if you will, yes anywhere is fine, there you go, that’s marvelous. Now watch as I shuffle the cards, mix them well. First, I’ll turn these down and push those up. Are you watching carefully? Because you know, it’s all in the illusion, the hidden motion, the misdirection!
Our girls have slipped on white, magicians gloves and are ready for a day of Hocus Pocus on this very last morning of camp…and……….
VIOLA! Is this your card?
Sounds like Simcha has hit Broadway with out talent show debut this afternoon! All of our talented performers and first time stars impressed us with gymnastic routines, intricate dance steps and singing solos. We loved to watch each other in the spotlight and the cheering support from the crowd was absolutely exceptional!!!
Some of our spectacular moments on set included the very talented Norma and her balancing act and Moriah’s singing kickoff. The “Gold Diggers performed a dance routine and Miriam impressed us with a masterful musical performance. NYC’s Broadway has never seen such a plethora of talent all in one place before, but Simcha sure is a Company of dancing, singing, drawing, cheering starlets ready to hit the stage whenever entertainment is called for. Thank you to all of our performers today and our wonderful audience who provide the chaotic thrills of a NYC style show today.
And remember folks, it’s a booming city and ANYTHING can happen…!
We’ve been flagging down taxies at breakfast and posing for pictures with sidewalk characters all morning. It’s Red Day! Which means that the Big Apple has come to Camp Simcha and Time Square is flying! Donning all shades of Red and all hues of excitement, our campers are off to begin their activities.
It’s NYC Day and who knows, anything can happen in the Big City…!
