S/o Rav Tov memories

amother

↑ Rose ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:41 pm

I was last in camp around 10-11 years ago. By my times things there were way different. I alternated between TD and rav tov so I knew the difference and except for the primary language being Yiddish and the different mentality there wasnt much of a difference in the actual camp experience.
Wakeup was later. Around 8-8:30 "camp time"
Cleanup was really not a big deal. Bunks were in a general state of low grade messiness and smelliness. No color coded sharply folded shelves for us!
I actually loved getting "wash" we got to go to breakfast late. I'd sleep in an extra 20 minutes. Get dressed and ready when everyone was doing their job and washed the floors when everyone left for breakfast.
Those holy name are cracking me up! By my times we were called "Or" as in or ches, or tes etc
Those were the days!

amother

↑ Ruby ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:42 pm

amother [ Aubergine ] wrote:

Oh the last line of that song is

ateres rosh beni...

MeIn kind ich zoog deer tzee,
Vest gein in derech fin uvi,
Dan mein Kroin biztee,
Ateres roish Beni.....
Hamalach, hamalach

amother

↑ OP ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:44 pm

thinkermother wrote:

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

I know you. I mean if we would to meet up irl I'd for sure remember you!

amother

↑ Ruby ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:45 pm

Mama Bear wrote:

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

I changed my screen name 😉
U were def my counselor there at the corner bunk 6. No? That was near mrs Zupnick’s bungalow with the huge field behind. Oy, I’m missing camp. I practically grew up there even before 4th grade I’d tag along with my sisters whenever my mother gave birth. And slept at Laylee Weiss’s bungalow.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:46 pm

gamzehyaavor wrote:

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?

Toby came in much much later. I remember hearing Toby getting the job.

amother

↑ Fuchsia ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:49 pm

amother [ Aubergine ] wrote:

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

Finster yeda vinkel
Meer topen in dee tinkel

amother

↑ Rose

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:50 pm

Re camp looking like a concentration camp they would say half joking half seriously that when the Rosenbergs started the camps the only camps they knew were from the Holocaust so....

Just One

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:51 pm

amother [ Ruby ] wrote:

If you're Crust I've been missing you and wondering where you disappeared to

amother

↑ Fuchsia ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:52 pm

gamzehyaavor wrote:

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?

I was in 7th grade. I still remember who woke us up. My counselors sister. Twas freaky.

amother

↑ Pink ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:53 pm

My mother would have had a blast in this thread.

amother

↑ Ruby ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 2:59 pm

Just One wrote:

If you're Crust I've been missing you and wondering where you disappeared to

No, not crust. Ive been a member since 2009 but then took a long break and changed my name after I came back. I dont post a lot, but this thread on here has me giggling with nostalgia. I LOVED camp, And I dont think my daughter, with all the upgrades they currently have enjoys it a drop more than I did. Then again, the old system probably worked for the outgoing kid that also was good and thrived at sports.

amother

↑ Ruby ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 3:12 pm

Mama Bear wrote:

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!

My gawd, mama bear, which grass are you eating to remember all of this. I cant even remember which bunkhouse I was in.
And yeah to the poster who pointed out that we were on a different clock as the rest of the world. It was really 8am wake up, And I def dont recall the cleanup/marks to be this dramatic. Meh.
What I do remember is mr rosenberg standing in the lunchroom with a tray full of those mini ices cups egging us on to outdo each other with the benching. Louder and louder we’d scream while he’d gloat.
Also somehow I was also Alwags his scapegoat, due to my popular, errr ancestry.
And I lost count of the times I wiggled my way into that huge freezer as my friends stood guard to pilfer a huge package of american cheese for pizza. Aaaah, the good times.

amother

Plum

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 3:26 pm

gamzehyaavor wrote:

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?

I was in chodosh twice
It was hell
Mrs spitz was so nice though despite her giving such a strict impression

↑ clowny ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 3:55 pm

amother [ Aubergine ] wrote:

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

Yes I have the lyrics to dagel metzion song. I’ll post is after shabbos when there’s more time.

↑ clowny ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 3:57 pm

Mama Bear wrote:

Great job mama bear.

↑ clowny ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 4:05 pm

amother [ Black ] wrote:

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

No. It was 9th grade class. Competition year.

amother

↑ Cyan ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 4:09 pm

I'm trying to remember the kuseif cheer where we bend down all the way to the floor and hocked on it... omg. nutty. but could it be considered Cardio? we didn't get much exercise.

↑ clowny ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 4:10 pm

Thinkermother, you must be around my age. I was in camp the same years as you. MBR opened when I was in 12th grade.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 4:11 pm

clowny wrote:

Thinkermother, you must be around my age. I was in camp the same years as you. MBR opened when I was in 12th grade.

I'm your age. I was a 12th grader in MBR.
I'm not gonna say what I did cuz of maybe outing myself. But it was one nutty yr in MBR.

↑ Mama Bear ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 4:13 pm

amother [ Blue ] 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

I had to dig into my memories for that, but I have a pretty amazing memory. I can rattle off almost all of my life experiences complete with dates and data.
This makes me even sadder bc not having daughters I dont get to experience camp fun vicariously again. I'm missing out so much in life. Oh well, thanking H' for my boys.