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Staff Picture, and Picture with the Rosenbloom Family

Sorry but we are very busy, so we wont be able to update for the next day or so!

Kamtza And Bar Kamtza Video and Pics

In Costume.

A Clip from the Skit. (sorry that the sound is low.)

End of Week Three

Thursday: Tisha Beav, Started with a few Videos of the Rebbe, and then a “Kamtza and Bar Kamtza” Skit, the kids really loved it. Shmary as the Gvir, Shmaya as the Assistant and the King’s Translator(translating to Arabic). Yosale as The King. Me as Bar Kamtza. Samy, Jacob, and Vidal as Jews by the Party. Samy as the Cow (that makes Chicken, Dog Cat… Noises!) Jacob and Vidal as Soldiers. After that we played a Trivia Game about the Beis Hamikdosh, When the kids lost interest in that, we played Soccer till 12:30, when the kids went home. In the Afternoon, we did some work on the newsletter, and Me and Shmya went to Meir Kamhaji house to play Ping Pong.
Friday: We played Soccer in Hebraica, and in the afternoon we went swimming, now that the nine days are over. The writing on the back of the car says: Israel, Get out of Lebanon. (thanks to the Anti Semite President here!) Also on Friday night, one of the Baaleibatim was spit on by 5 arabs on the way to Shul!

Pics from Week Three (Round Two)

In the Internet Cafe.
Aaron and Vidal, with the boxes by the Auction.
My Bunk, by the Auction. (Vidal and Jacob)
Ariel Opening the Malta that Tzfas won in the Auction. (Check out the Fizz!)
Another Chavista (Pro Chavez) Advertisement. (Translation: We Are Anti Imperialists, for Solidarity with the World. For Venezuela, Humanity is First. LOL!)

Pics from Week Three (Round One)

My Bunk on Monday, (7 kids) in the Childrens Museum.

In the Planeterium in the Museum.

In the Zoo. (with the Gorilla)
Yosale, Popping popcorn for the Auction.
Yosale and Shmulik, preparing the boxes for the Auction.

Week Three (Till Tisha Beav)

Sunday: We went to Hebraica again, a bit late though. And after a half an hour Shmary remembered that he wanted to make a Farbrengen for his grandfather’s Yartzeit, so we quickly went to some stores and pulled some stuff together. (Keep in mind that it was Sunday afternoon so very few stores were open.) We invited whoever we thought would come, so we had us three Americans, plus the Shojats, plus five Venezuelans, one of which Farbrenged. Nice Farby, I put on some pictures and a clip.
Monday: Fewer kids, partly because of the nine days, the Sfardim get nervous. My bunk had only seven, including one kid that wasn’t here the second week, and two new kids. One Israeli (7) who doesn’t speak a word of Spanish. He’s here visiting his nephew (8) also in my bunk. His nephew at least also speaks Spanish. He has been living in Caracas for four years, now he is going to move to Israel. We went to The Children’s Museum, not so bad compared to Brooklyn, but not that modern. Monday night we were up late making the boxes for the auction the next day.
Tuesday: Morning was Soccer. (Now with ten kids, three Sfardim came back.) In the afternoon we went to the zoo. A decent variety of animals, all dying though. We had a very short time there so we had to rush through it, but we managed to see everything. Tzfas was left behind to go lay bowling. That was due to the fact that they would probably not enjoy the zoo, and they would just make it worse for everyone else.Wednesday: In the morning we went to an internet café, for the networked games. All the kids were playing Grand Theft Auto, how educational. After lunch was a auction, the points were based on the games we played last week. Traveling to Yerushalaim, Treasure Hunt… Of course which prize went to which bunk, was fixed. Included in the prizes were: Garbage, A Telephone Book, and Toilet Paper. But also some decent stuff, like Popcorn, Soda, etc. Major mess, Shui wasn’t too happy about that. Thursday is Tisha Beav, so the day ends at 12:30. Different activities too. I’ll give you a run down of that after it happens. To All, Have An Easy Fast.

Farbrengen for Nosson Gurary's Yartzeit (Sunday Night)

Right to Left: Isaac Anijar, Shmaya Haskelevitch, Meir Kamhaji, Jose Melamed, Eliezer Kamhaji.
R' Asher Bromberg Farbrenging.

A Collection of Pics

A Rabipelado walking around in front of our building. (A Type of Rodent)
Me, In the Apt.
Shmary, In the Apt.
Some "Chasidishe" Graffiti. (It Means: How Long Are We Going To Wait?)
Shmaya Taking a Nap in Camp.

The Ranchos

From the Batting Cages, there is a perfect view of the Ranchos ("Villa" in Argentinian).

Pics From Week Two (Round Three)

Me Batting.
Shui Hellping Edy Kohn Bat.
Shmaya Batting.
Ariel Farache Dressed Up. Israel Jaim Shojat Dressed Up.
My camper dressed up in a store.
Isaac Dayan giving Smulik the present he got for him in the Scavenger Hunt.
Shui, Shmaya and Shmary Playing Basketball. (Bryan F. was playing too.)

Amram Wahnon Swimming.

Levi Rosenblum swimming.

The Jewish Part of Camp

it's not just fun and games. here is a clip of Aharon Mizrahi Screaming a Posuk.

And Here is a clip of my campers Davening.

Some Nice Hits By The Batting Cages!

Shui Rosenblum.

Shmulik Shojat.

Ariel Farache.

Ariel Farache Screaming "Wazzup?" from the bus window.

(No I didn't teach him this. He found Apple770.com on his own.)

The Rest of the Second Week, And Shabaton Report

Thursday: We played soccer in the morning. The Little league played by our court, and the older teams played in the Hebraica court. In the afternoon we went to Bolita Center, a mall nearby, and had a scavenger hunt. Amongst the things you need to do (everything for free): get presents for the head counselor and director. Find a Jew and teach them something you learned in camp. Get a donation for camp. Make fake Tzitzis (well, duh!) make Tfilin. Hold a baby. Get someone to tie your shoe. Get a bag. Get a shoe box. Find the weirdest thing. Teach two people the Russian song, Ochin Chislivi. (Which surprisingly is a big hit!) Get one kid dressed up. And maybe another thing or two. The kids did a great job. We all had a lot of fun.

Friday: We went to the batting cages. Every kid got two or three tokens. Each token gets you about twenty pitches. I actually managed to do ok, despite the fact that I haven’t picked up a bat in three years. When we got back to camp, we played the Traveling to Yerushalaim game. A board with 100 spaces. You roll the dice, and whichever space you fall on, you have to runaround the whole camp to find that paper. On the paper there is a question you need to answer, and then you can roll the dice again. Tveria won.

Shabbos was the Shabaton for the boys. The kids started coming by 5:15 or so. Shabbos starts 6:35. there were a total of 20 kids. My bunk was not invited, and 4 kids from the oldest bunk lost it because they ran off in the park when we went horseback riding. We prepared the Scavenger hunt for Sabbos afternoon, Mamesh the last minutes before Sabbos. Friday night we davened in the big Shul. The counselors came into Kabolas Shabbos wearing funny hats which added to the Avir. (this is all a bit of a Mahapeicho for the Shul. Because kids are unofficially not invited. So Shabbos is usually pretty dull. But the Baal Habatim at least, seamed to have liked it. Friday night meal was at Shui’s house. The kids and counselors, (and co counselors all slept there too.) the kids kept us busy trying to put them to sleep till about 2 am. Shabbos morning we came to shul about 10:30. the main minyan starts at 9, but we were making our own minyan. Our minyan had to be rushing through the parts that the kids don’t say, and singing all the parts they know. Shmulik did a on the spot Kriah. We played the count the word in the aliya game during kriya. We had ices to keep the kids going. Two Baal Habatimenjoyed helping out. By the end of Davening the kids were pretty restless. At least they made it till Shishi fine! After Davening we went up yo the Kidush. We had our own 4 tables at one end. The kids sang, and we got one of the baal habatim that is Shaich to it, to farbreng for the kids. Afterwards a few kids went back to Shui’s house to “take a nap”. Most kids stayed in the Jabad House to play a little. At 4:30 we had the scavenger hunt. For some reason the clues did not all send them to the next hint, but they had fun, and Tzfas managed to find all the hints, just not in order. Mincha we davened with the main Minyan. Shalosh Seudos was by Shui’s house. Shui told a story. And a bit before the end Shmary explained the kids what Shmayonkee is, and told them that if they Scream for it, they’ll get it. None of us had prepared for this. But we Bentched, Davened Maariv, made Havdoleh, and then we quickly put on the skit with the guy with his hands tied up, having a meeting. Thanks Shui for digging into your camp days to remember that one. The kids liked it so much that we had to quickly make up another one, where we wanted to leave Cuba for Venezuela, and only one of had papers, so the other two would be his horse. Thanks again Shui. Mostly it was Shmaya, Shmary and Me. Pretty impressive, three Americans putting on stand up comedy in Spanish! Yosale also acted in the second one. If we were willing, the kids would be very happy to see more. We decided to tell the kids to put on some skits. The parents came a bit after that to pick them up. And the end of the Shabaton, you had a bunch of tired counselors, and a bunch of happy capers. Thank You Very Much Shui and Chani for the food, and all your work, Shabbos was great! Because of the way the kids liked the Shmayonkee, we will probably make a major Kamtza Bar Kamtza skit on Tisha Beav. Today we will probably go to Hebraica again to do Mivtzoim.

Mashiaj Ya!

Pics From Week Two (Round Two)

Shmaya and his bunk.

Me playing air hockey by the arcade place.
Ariel Farache playing air hockey.
Shmary and Samy Poliwoda with their bunk.

And tell me if this guy doesnt look like a nazi! (Especially with that gun.)

My bunk getting their donation.

Meir Belilty wearing his Tefilin and Tziztis, with me.

Teaching someone "Ocin Chislivi".