Today, we bring you a super guest blogger, all the way from Manchester, UK. Meet Moshe Chayim Barron, along with his devoted counselor Yitzchok Davies.
At 8:30 am Duvie Becker announced during his usual morning broadcast that the super talmid award raffle was going to take place at breakfast. I had ten awards and I decided to get up early.
At breakfast I watched as all the prizes were raffled off. Ari Max, my bunkmate won two prizes. For a second I thought Yitzchok had won a prize because Duvie announced his name, but it was just to call him to the front for a message. I was pretty upset that I didn’t win anything, but in learning program Rabbi Filer said that the real reward for learning well comes in the world to come.
We then went to canvas painting; I was just painting randomly and it began to start looking like a Palestinian flag, so I changed it to a super hero logo!
I then played as the red team against the blue in a super intense game of Hockey. Our team won, of course, 6-5. I managed to pull off some pretty cool blocks, passes and goal setups. Amichai (my bunkmate) scored a hat-trick, Yitzchok was keeper for first half and Illan (another bunkmate) for second and Yackov (bunkmate) did a good job in goals for the blue team despite losing.
After lunch I went to the movie room and watched Spiderman 2, which was great. Then at leather works I banged away at the leather with Reuven Cooperstein for a while but then loads of others started banging and it got really noisy so I chose to leave.
On my way to snack I practiced some epic stone to stone hopping, before meeting Daniel (my rotator) at candle works. I chose not to have the salty pretzels and went with Daniel to woodwork.
I worked hard on making a key holder, itself in the shape of a key. Double whammy! I will finish this off in a second woodwork session.
I then rejoined Yitzchok for supper, before going over to the social hall to check out the Mentalist show (mind-reading/magic show). I wasn’t so impressed, because I know how these people force you to think in a certain way… instead I rocked out in the woods for a few minutes before going to the Xbox room and playing FIFA against Yitzchok. I was Manchester United playing against him as Tottenham.
We had a race to the canteen, which I won. Once we got our nash we sat down with Ari and Yosaif. We enjoyed saying over the laffy taffy jokes and hearing the description of what happened to Ari in the carnival on Friday. Basically he was high in the air on the bungee jumping and his counselor pulled him down and let go. He flew over and the bar went vertical. For a second it looked really dangerous but Ari didn’t feel a thing!
We then headed back to our bunk for bedtime. Yaakov Langer came in and handed out Camp Simcha t-shirts and cardigans (for you Americans out there, that means a sweater). Yehuda Weiss from next door was our story teller. Awesome times.
Moshe Chayim and Yitzchok, enjoying the Friday carnival.