Saturday April 5, 2014
This morning myself, and all of the kids on EIE who go to URJ summer camps woke up at 7:00 a.m. to meet with people from the Summer Shlichim Program for the URJ Camp and Israel “Mishlachat training”. Mishlachat is a program that offers Israeli men and women, after their time in the army, the opportunity to spend a summer abroad at different URJ camps in both Canada and the United States, and participate in the summer camp programs. At Camp George in Parry Sound Ontario we always get a bunch of Mishlachat on staff who bring a lot of the Israeli culture and spirit to our summer.
When we arrived at the conference we were surrounded by a group of enthusiastic Israelis who all were going to different URJ camps and programs. This weekend was their training session to prepare them for the experiences to come. We first had services outside! Many of the Israelis were shocked to see a woman lead services because they are used to traditional ways.
After services we all broke off into camp groups. I spent the afternoon with Julia Guest, Josh Dubell (staff from camp) and the Mishlachat coming to George this summer! They are all so cool and I am really excited to spend the summer with them! We played some fun camp style games and did question and answers! It was so fun answering their questions because to many of them the idea of camp is very new and they do not know what to expect. I hope I gave them a good understanding and got them excited to come to George!
After a fun morning together the EIE group left to go back to Tzuba!
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