S/o Rav Tov memories

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 1:49 pm

amother [ Cyan ] wrote:

omg. Miriam Zeesy shpitzer. you have such an amazing memory. I was in Kuseif.

adorbs.

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 1:52 pm

amother [ Brunette ] wrote:

Mama Bear do you remember me? I sat on the bleacher on top of you at shir in the alte shpil hoiz. (We met years later in aishes chayil) I was laughing so loud at this thread. Do you remember on shiva asur btamuz only the fasters would get the special oasfast bags. And Viggy would look at each girl to see if she was take fasting. if he suspected a fraud he'd tell you to 'shteck arois dein tzing!'.

Well lol from this description I dont remember by heart but hello Smile

Aishes Chayil 7 1/4 years ago, eh? Smile

amother

↑ Ruby ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 1:52 pm

amother [ Bronze ] wrote:

Oh please. We had daily inspections to ensure that our bunks were cleaned properly. I believe we got demerits and punishments or something if the bunk wasnt clean enough but it was such a long time ago that I cant fully remember exactly. It was one of the "competitions/activity" in camp to see who had the cleanest bunk. Young kids shouldnt have to clean up after 30 other kids (who all used the same bathrooms and showers) especially when on vacation in the summer.

I hear ya, but I dont recall it being that way at all. Yes we got ratings during the daily chk up but punishments? Nah.

amother

↑ Ruby ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 1:53 pm

clowny wrote:

Yes. And if I’m not mistake the song בני מיין קינד comes from that class.

Yes it did. Beautiful song.

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 1:56 pm

amother [ Sienna ] wrote:

I don't believe I haven't seen this thread till now...

Hellow fellow esrogim/beraikes here...you know who I am...don't you dare expose my username!!!!

Oh where do I start....the public showers....the slimy jello served in a lavoor...the pitzy wooden plate of gizzards to serve an entire table...the shotcup kiddush grape juice...the one sour pickle rule...the melamine dishes...

Oh the times...

Oh my. Took me a few seconds to chap who you are. So happy youre still around here, even if you probably changed your screen name a few times. I keep suspecting anyone from your neighborhood who posts, that it's you, and I think I'm always wrong. ROFL. How's life? Shoot me a PM if you want....

↑ thinkermother ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 1:58 pm

I was in rav tov/ alternating with hachodosh from 1996-2002 and then mbr in 2003 the first year it opened

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amother

↑ Ruby ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 1:58 pm

amother [ Ginger ] wrote:

Any imamothers older than Mama Bear ?
That were in camp in the early 80's?

I think my sister was 9th grade teacher one year when all the classes were named after gemstones of the Choishen. Yehaloim.

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:06 pm

Chaya123 wrote:

I have to say, as an "outsider", reading this thread is absolutely fascinating and entertaining, almost like from a diff planet. I never heard of calling counselors, teachers, and bunks by names of hoshanos and cleaning bathrooms as activities. Wow! So interesting!

haha. I wouldnt call cleaning the bunk an activity. it was part of the daily routine. I still remember the daily schedule down pat like it was yesterday:

7 am - wake-up
8:10 - davening
9:00 - breakfast
9:45 - cleanup

Every girl got a job The bunkhouse was divided into zones so that no one got a too difficult jobs. Jobs were basically like this:

Sweep 1
Sweep 2
Front Porch
Back Porch
Bathroom 1
Bathroom 2
Bathroom 3
Shower 1
Shower 2
Top of the lockers
Towels
nightgowns
blouses
(the lockers were extremely small; you kept your personal belongings in your locker, but shelves over the hanging closets were designated for everyone's towels, shirts, nightgowns, detergents etc. You had to make sure they were folded and lined up with precision!)
Wash Floors 1
Wash Floors 2
etc

10:30 - shiur

So the problem was that the pressure was really on. Every girl scrambled to get her job done by 10:25 so she could run to shiur. So the WORST job was the girl who had to wash the floors! Bc she had to wait until every girl had finished her job and left the bunkhouse so she could wash the floor. And inevitably she was late to shiur and would get marked as 'late' by the teacher (aka counselor) in the roll book, cue the tears. And at the same time, the 10th graders who were their counselors in the bunk were so pressured and anxious to get a top mark on the cleanliness of their bunkhouse -- during shiur the head counselor would go around checking all the bunks and giving them a mark! Everyone wanted at 10+. Anything less than that, meant the counselor was in tears, and then berating / blaming the girls whose jobs werent done perfectly. Oy was that nuts.
now as an adult I'm left wondering why those 10th grade counselors couldnt just wash the floors at 10:30 when the campers went to shiur. So silly. everyone HATED wash floors. I dont think I ever got the wash floors job in all my years in camp, bc in 7th and 8th grade I only went for 4 weeks, and jobs were changed weekly so I had 4 different jobs. In 9th grade we had a massive bunkhouse with like 35 beds, so there were enough jobs to go around that I never got the dreaded wash floors.
And there was so much politics going on with the job assignments too... ugh.
In 10th grade I was a counselor to fourth grade bunkers. Obviously they are too young to wash floors, so we gave them much easier jobs and we the counselors would mop the floors at 10:30 when they went to shiur.

just for funzies if you want the rest of the day's schedule it went something like this:

11:00 - first activity
12:00 - second activity
1:00 - lunch
2:00 - rest hour
3:00 - refreshments
3:30 - tehillim
4:00 major activity
6:00 - mincha
6:30 - supper
7:30 - night activity
9:00 - bedtime
9:30 - lights out!

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:07 pm

amother [ Ruby ] wrote:

I think my sister was 9th grade teacher one year when all the classes were named after gemstones of the Choishen. Yehaloim.

that was the year I was in ברקת.....
and lol it took me a minute to chap who you are too. Havent seen you around in a while, or I forgot your screen name Very Happy

amother

↑ Aubergine ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:10 pm

clowny wrote:

Yes. And if I’m not mistake the song בני מיין קינד comes from that class.

Oh the last line of that song is

ateres rosh beni...

amother

Slategray

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:11 pm

I'm probably the oldest one here. Was in camp late 70's, early 80's. Wow did this thread bring back memories...

amother

↑ Aubergine

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:13 pm

anyone has the lyrics to the degel metziyen and tayer imen shabbos songs?

↑ Sunny Days ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:16 pm

amother [ Slategray ] wrote:

I'm probably the oldest one here. Was in camp late 70's, early 80's. Wow did this thread bring back memories...

So you probably know my shvigger & aunt’s. They rocked the place. But will not say who they are because I don’t want to be disowned LOL

amother

↑ Blue ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:16 pm

Mama Bear wrote:

Mama bear, don't think anyone can compete with your memory. Written with so much details that I felt being in bunk again.
And oh..paper was on outside porch and one of the ladies came to rate it every day

↑ rdmom

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:17 pm

I was only there that one year. And I fell and hurt my ankle so I got to go to the hospital. Viggys mother, Mrs Rosenberg took me to the emergency room.
I remember going back to camp years later. Just snuck out of TD to visit my friends in the alte camp. And my friends were showing off how their rooms got 10+ a few days in a row. That’s all they would talk about. And I couldn’t stop but wonder, my bunk back in TD was so proud of the messy rooms. Who cares if it was a 10 or not. And that’s the first thing they were kvelling about in satmar. Those were the days.
Now, I had lots and lots of food with me. My parents would send me a package every single week. And so I became my counselors best friends. They would let me play racko on their beds during rest hour and didn’t let other kids join us. I sometimes wish I remember their names.
And that’s so funny. Perry leichtag was head? She was my classmate.

↑ Sunny Days ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:20 pm

Ps to mamma bears post with camp timings. To all you outsiders shocked that we were up so early- we were on “camp time” - moved back one hour.

And I was in camp in my mid elementary years & don’t remember ever either having the washing bathrooms or floors job, but honestly we weren’t kvetched about our jobs, was just par for the course.

The best was the camp price lol! What my parents paid for 3-4 kids is like 1/2 summer now in some camps.

amother

↑ Cyan ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:21 pm

the order for the showers and jobs. we forgot the job of sorting the clean laundry for the younger grades. Goirlech, yes fair, not fair. Prejudice. Crushes. Running to the truck for shabbos peckel, sometimes it was under the truck, checking the lockers (mine was always a mess.. ) all those crafts selling / buying business before the 9 days..

↑ Sunny Days ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:22 pm

So no one else was in kerhonkson the year of the fire?

And how many of you were in chudesh and part of toby spitz’s “nurses” crew?

amother

Black ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:22 pm

clowny wrote:

My grade was דגל מציון

I’m laughing away...

Hey I was in degel mezion too!!! haha I think in 6th grade, ye?
Remember our counselors?

amother

↑ Brunette

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:27 pm

Mama Bear yes, 7.25 years ago.

I was one of the lucky ones to stay over TBav after the salmonella. There were 100 girls left in camp out of about 1200.