The Sayalim
Working
with the Sayalim has been a great experience. We have eleven amazing and unique
chanichim, each one of them with something new and fresh to bring to Gilboa.
Being the youngest kids means that the kvutsah is mostly made up of new faces,
but they are adapting well and enjoying their time here. All of the Sayalim
participate in and enjoy their avodot, chuggim, and various other activities.
They spend their chofesh hanging out with their friends in and out of their
shichva (age group), as well as playing in our new gaga pit and climbing rocks. We’ve
played a number of get-to-know-you games, and have put a lot of effort into
ensuring the chanichim make connections with each other. In PISH (age group activity) they learn about various topics
including avoiding stereotypes and the youth
movement Habonim Dror. These wonderful
Sayalim have many youthful summers ahead of them and we hope that they will choose to
spend them at Gilboa.
- Sid, Maya,
and Edunn
Shabbat (Saturday)
Shabbat is a very fun day that is
also different. We wake up at 10:00 when it’s usually 8:00, and then we have a
different breakfast of sugared cereal instead of non-sugared ones. Then there
are some special chuggim that you can choose. One of the chuggim we watched a
video of a group of kids turning racist. There is also Hyde Park where you go
on a crate and say what’s on your mind and what should be done at Gilboa. The
dinner at Shabbat is very fun and we make our own burgers. At night we have something
called Medura and Musical where you can sing and do skits in front of everyone.
And finally there’s ice cream. The Shabbat day is swell.
- Kellen and Bella
Wish Night
In the
beginning of the summer we were given papers to write down three wishes, and most
of us had no idea what they were for. They kept tricking us that there was no
wish night,. When they asked us to put on black clothes we thought we were
going to be playing “ZAP”, but then people finally figured out that it was Wish
Night once we walked into the Chadar (dining hall). Some wishes were for an ice cream sundae (it was a box of
ice cream that they could only open on Sunday), wishing for a counselor to come
back, or skipping the hike (he got to skip over the guy who says “hike” in
football). Most of the wishes were twisted and made into word games, and wish night was really fun.
- Ruby, Louis, Clara, Eyal
BoCoup
Bocoup is a
night where the Bogrim, the oldest kvutsah, take over camp. It started right before
dinner, when the Bogrim ran in and “scared away" the Madrichim. This year’s
theme was Greek Gods, and there were Zeus, Hades, Gaia, and lots of other gods
there. The point of the night was to defeat Gaia, who got angry when the gods
and demigods (us) killed her children, the Titans, who we saw as monsters. All
the Chanichim split into groups with different gods. Each group went to
different stations where we learned the different ways to defeat Gaia. For
example, some stations were with Poseidon, where he tried to convince us that
fishing will defeat Gaia, and Aphrodite, who told us that beauty and love were
everything. In another station we learned a song to defeat Gaia. Later, we had
to run from the Medura pit to the Chadar without getting hit by water balloons. All the gods and demi-gods united, and won by singing a song instead of using force.
- Robin, Otto, Aviv
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