S/o Rav Tov memories

↑ yksraya ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 4:52 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!

One year we actually had a counselor who absolutely loves cleaning, and she didn't trust us with the floor as she didn't deam our wash, clean enough. so she used to send us off to shiur, and she would wash the floor.

But some of us always sneaked away from shiur once the attendance was already taken, and counselor had to fight with us not to enter the bunk till floor is dry.

↑ Sunny Days ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 4:52 pm

clowny wrote:

You mean disowned by them??? Or here on imamother?

For being on ima...

amother

↑ Pink ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 4:53 pm

Mama Bear wrote:

I tell mine too and they love it. Simchas Torah I sang a bunch of camp songs... especially bc I explained to my bochur how the גג ועלי'ה bunknight song came about (we used a satmar hakufah niggun, so I remember that niggun to this day!) But they dont really appreciate it the way girls would. oh well.

I dont have nerven to my mother's camp stories or camp songs either. that's the way the world turns.

Hahaha I was just goin to say that even if you had girls they wouldn’t care about the pictures and the stories! When we look at my moms camp pictures all we do is laugh and laugh about the hairstyles.

↑ clowny ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 4:55 pm

I wonder if anybody here was in my bunk when I was a counselor. It was in choodush, 8th graders. I don’t remember the bunk #. But we would yell every morning from our counselor room
ווער עס וויל זאל טוען זייער
Job

One girl was very upset on how we handled it so she went to tell Mrs. yuzsho on us. Lol.

↑ clowny ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 4:56 pm

gamzehyaavor wrote:

For being on ima...

Oh. Aha
But my curiosity levels are rising. Lol.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:01 pm

amother [ Hotpink ] wrote:

Yes, and then her first cousin [still a girl then] married to the alman.. freaky

They bh have a beautiful family. Special special lady his wife. She's not the ordinary. It was very comforting to her family that their son in law in staying in the family.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:02 pm

gamzehyaavor wrote:

She is such a sweetie.
We called her ches reish

Wonder if I know you....

↑ Sunny Days ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:03 pm

amother [ OP ] wrote:

Wonder if I know you....

Since you’re anonymous... where are you from?

amother

↑ OP ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:03 pm

clowny wrote:

You mean disowned by them??? Or here on imamother?

If they'll know she's on imamother she'll be disowned. Like myself and I'm sure many others. Lol.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:04 pm

gamzehyaavor wrote:

Since you’re anonymous... where are you from?

amother

↑ Sienna ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:04 pm

One of the amazing wonders of Rav Tov always was, despite the conditions and standard, the camp always attracted the most girls and was the largest girls camp!

↑ yksraya ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:04 pm

clowny wrote:

Oy, the fun of starting up with yusho! After having enough of her in 7th grade, I chose to go to Rav tov and be in a Willi bunk, in 10th.

↑ Sunny Days ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:05 pm

amother [ OP ] wrote:

Ah ok. About what age?

↑ clowny ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:06 pm

amother [ OP ] wrote:

Then you probably know me too.
(I’m almost outing myself here)

amother

↑ OP ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:07 pm

gamzehyaavor wrote:

Ah ok. About what age?

37-38

↑ yksraya ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:07 pm

amother [ OP ] wrote:

If they'll know she's on imamother she'll be disowned. Like myself and I'm sure many others. Lol.

No one owns me.

amother

↑ Cyan ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:07 pm

amother [ Sienna ] wrote:

One of the amazing wonders of Rav Tov always was, despite the conditions and standard, the camp always attracted the most girls and was the largest girls camp!

attracted the most girls? the school didn't allow you to go elsewhere, (except in Boro park).

amother

↑ OP ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:08 pm

clowny wrote:

Then you probably know me too.
(I’m almost outing myself here)

Nope. I did not chap yet who you are. Did you ever go to Chaya Sura?

↑ Sunny Days ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:08 pm

amother [ OP ] wrote:

37-38

Then probably not. Unless you taught higher elementary straight out of high school? Are you Che’s reish or reish beis grade?

↑ yksraya ↓

Fri, Oct 16 2020, 5:08 pm

amother [ OP ] wrote:

37-38

And you were in MBR first year? You prob we're in 13th grade then.