Hey looks, he's famous

Shaya singing on the video of some online magazine

Publish Post

If anyone would like to contact Moshe Sanders in Israel, his new # is 347-246-5212. Please remember that he is on Israeli time (7 hours ahead of East Coast time).

LETS GO YANKEES

9 games up! Oh yeah!

And it never rains in Camp Nageela...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's next prime minister might be nicknamed "the alien," but it's his wife who claims to have had a close encounter with another world.

"While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus," Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama, wrote in a book published last year.

"It was a very beautiful place and it was really green."

Very patriotic Camp

In what other place in the world do they celebrate August the twelfth with the same pomp and circumstance as we?
Get your kazoos ready!

scarrrry

No, parents, this man was not involved in taking care of your children, don't worry.
Besides, we made sure he was well fed before we let him near any kids.

Shabbos was verry verry nice here in Vegas.
Friday was not so nice. It hailed.
It was over 100 degrees and it hailed.
I don't get it either. Naturally, though it only hailed for a few minutes, it was precisely when I was outside!

I nominate rabbi shorty as a nageela all-star for arranging this week's mini- shabbaton.

SHABBOS IS COMING!

Hey Camp Nageela! Do you know what's coming tonight? That's right, it's been a long week, but Shabbos is here again. As promised, here's another one of those awesome songs recorded by Yaakov as the buses were pulling out of camp, and guess what... it's a shabbos song. You know the tune, you know the words. You may not have ever put them together, but here it is. Just CLICK HERE to download! Keep it on your ipod and listen each friday.
Hey, why not, I'll include another recording, too. This one is called 'CAMP NAGEELA' (original name, isn't it?). It was introduced by Yaakov and Azi at the end of Nageela '08, so many of you may have never heard it. Well, here it is!

p.s. I would like to post some Nageela All- Stars, so please hit me with your nominations at lockeroom@gmail.com and I'll post 'em!

NAGEELA STRONG

Hope you all stayed Nageela Strong and had an awesome Shabbos.
It was really quiet out here. Tova and Zahava insisted on singing Shabbos Kodesh and dancing.

Here's a little something to keep you going:
Just before the buses pulled out of camp, Yaakov Akerman ran into the office and told me that he had recorded some great camp songs, but they hadn't made it on to the Audio CD. So I'll post them one or two at a time. Here's Yaakov's intro to these songs, and in honor of Shabbos having just left us, Yaakov's special Havdallah.

HERE THEY ARE! Just right click and download the file!

Yaakov's intro
Havdallah

On my way to las vegas now. I miss nageela!

Curfews...

Curfews will be enforced immediately. Bunk 6, you were not at supper, so no night canteen for you

Tonight's night activity is 'call someone from nageela'.
I've akready called several today and visited one... How about you?

If you're readin this...

Right when you get home off that bus...
I know. I can't get my mind off of Nageela either. I'm still here, in fact, sittin' in my room, listening to some Nageela songs on iTunes.
The campus is so quiet though. SOmehow that seems so wrong.
I'll try to picture it instead full of sound and spirit. I'll inagine laughter from the tetherball court, banging from the leather workshop at the tent, and a distant whistle signalling a call on the football field. I tihnk I can faintly make out the tune of 'borei nefashos' floating towards me from the dining room, and perhaps a paddle dipping into the water as it rows across the lake.

Keep the memories alive!
Email me your favorite memories of camp and I will post some of them.
Also, if you have an all star nomination, email that to me, and I'll try to post that on Fridays.

Love ya all!
And yes, we're STILL NUTS!

Update

This summer has been truly remarkable. We're winding down now, writing our yearbook articles and preparing for lots of packing today.
Last night we viewed an amazing movie put together by our drama program. When your son gets home, ask him to see the movie (he'll be bringing home a DVD).
The movie, starring campers David Buckman, Lucas Stein and Brian Berko, mixes drama, comedy and fantastic film editing. You'll enjoy seeing it!

color war

We just had the most amazing color war, and the winner is RED!
I will try to post pictures today. In the meantime, you can see each team's color war music video on youtube just search for camp nageela music video 2009
or check them out here...

Color War!

It's finaly here... COlor War!
I havent posted in a while because CW prep has taken all of my time, but I'll keep trying to post regularly.

Gotta run!

Amazing overnight trip!

Last night, Camp Nageela packed in to SPORT TIME USA, a premier indoor entertainment compllex in Westchester for hours upon hours of fun.

We all came in our pajamas, adding to the excitement, and played from 10pm until nearly 3am (don't worry, we had an extended naptime this morning, and curfews will be earlier these next two nights).

Check out our pictures to see campers and staff enjoying bumper cars, rock climbing wall, lazer tag, unlimited arcades, batting cages billiards and rides. We all brought our sleeping bags and bunked out there. I'll be back with more updates later, gotta finish up with tonights night activity!

New activities II

As I mentioned last week, I'll use this space to highlight some of the new activities we've instituted this summer.
Boating- After several years of negotiation, Camp Nageela now has use of a small lake across the road. So far, the boating activity has been a big hit for the bunks that have had it.

Too Much Candy

I know you'll all thank me. I couldn't bear to see all the campers eat so much unhealthy food (you know, all the candy you brought yesterday), so I ate most of it myself. Don't worry, we gave them all extra carrot sticks.
Seriously, visiting day was great. We have an exciting week planned. Tonight (actually, in a half hour), our older division will be playing sports against Camp Kochavim, a sports camp run by long time Nageela guy Yehuda Maryles.
A bit later, our staff will square off in an intercamp staff basketball game. I'll post the winner tonight or tomorrow.

New activities

Hopefully, every few days, I'll post something about one or more of our exciting activities here. Today I'd like focus on two new electives.

Drama and film- a small group of campers and staff are working together on the first NAGEELA PRODUCTIONS film. They have already begun to film and from the short clips that I've seen, it should be extremely entertaining. They are learning, in particular, how to act for film, which incidentally is significantly different than acting on stage.

Aikido- About a dozen campers are learning the basics of self- defense by using your oponent's momentum against him. I beeter be careful which campers I get into trouble!

Have a fantastic Shabbat and we'll see you on Sunday!

Pictures are now on the blog!

If you look at the top of this page your eyes will undoubtedly be drawn to the flashing images of the first week and a half of Nageela 09. Click on the pictures to view them individually. Thanks to our talented media specialist, Shlomo Kay for taking and posting these pictures. A special treat is in store for all visiting parents with a video presentation that will be playing on a loop in the camp lobby all Sunday.

New poll

I've posted a new poll on the sidebar, special for parents. Please vote on it, and if you have any comments, please post them here on this post.

25,000

Congratulations to us on our 25,000th hit!

GO US!

Update

Hi there! I haven't updated this blog, because I didn't realize that parents would be checking it. As you saw in the email that we sent out when camp began, we do have some pictures posted online. You can see them by clicking here.

There has been so much happening since camp started, I'll just give a brief summary now.
The first night of camp, we surprised our campers with a welcoming carnival, with six huge carnival rides including a rock climbing wall, pirate ship and three story water slide. We also had coton candy, YUM!
On Sunday we began our league competition, and both the sports program and wilderness program are going strong.
Wednesday, we drove up to Lake George and had an amazing time at SIX FLAGS Great Escape and Splashwater Kingdom.
Tonight, we had our first cookout. Each bunk had their own campfire where they roasted hotdogs, marshmallows (of course) and had an overall great time.

There's tons planned for next week, but of course the highlight is visiting day Sunday. See you then!

Mazal Tov

Mazal Tov
to longtime muffin man
Yaakov Simanowitz
on the birth of a baby girl!

Mazal Tov
to longtime CNB staff member
Yosaif Cohen
on the birth of a baby girl!

Just 1 week!

In 1 week from right now, I will be standing (or sitting, or laying down, or on my head) in Camp Nageela!
WOW!

Little Mary!

Mazal Tov
to JEP/ Nageela icon
Yehuda and Sara Maryles
upon the birth of a baby boy
this afternoon!

Just wanted to clear up a misconception over here. Some of you guys seem to be under the impression that the social all will not be usable this year.
Not true.
I spoke to rabbi shenker and he said that the social hgall is fully functional (it may not be decorated yet, but it's bigger than it was and it works).
So, yes. Soc hall is totally being used for nageela 09!

As promised... PICS!

Here we go! The first two pics are of the newly rebuilt social hall. Considerably bigger. You can also see the new stage, complete with a backstage room, it seems. Next, you can see the hallway in the new wing. Looks great! More exciting, though the picture is blurry, you can see the expanded dining room. It was getting a bit crowded. Last but not leat, the rebuilt and considerably bigger canteen! It can fit more mountain dew! Yippee! For some reason they kept that silly mouth, oh well, you can't have everything.
Thanks Sam for the pics.

The reports are in...

As today was visiting day for Nageela girls, and for some reason some Nageela guys thought this would be a good time to visit CNB... We got some reports on the new construction. The Social hall is much bigger and has a huge stage. Dining room is bigger too.
We'll post pics soon.

trips

I've been spending my time lately on a few interesting hobbies, which I will share with you at a later date so that you can make fun of me then. I the meanwhile, I have also been spending my time working out details for this summer's grand trip. A few details still need to be worked out, so check out the poll and vote on your favorite trip idea.

nageela useless fact

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language where all the letters are in order.
(Can you think of the longest Hebrew or yiddish word)

No more rats on rat island

How to get the waiters out of the computer room.

Check out this oddly enough article.

Who is he really- the fans speak...

Here are two Shaya's history submissions- I don't really uinderstand 'em, but here they are:

One day Shaya called Dell with a complaint: "The cup holder on my PC is broken. It's within the warranty period, so I'd like it replaced."
"Excuse me, sir? I don't understand. Did you say your PC has a cup holder?
"Actually, it has 2."
"Sir, Dell does not make PCs with cup holders. I'm not sure how you got yours."
"Ma'am," Shaya replied, "It even says Dell on the cup holder. Right next to the place where it says DVD."
-annonymous

My fav Shaya Hecht story involves a tractor trailer, a deflated beach ball, and two harmonicas. It was back in 99, when th'folk in Waymart PA congregated for a rally against tigerlillies. Shaya was illuminated as he should be, and he sang a song. I know, how ridiculous. Shaya Hecht singing? Never!
-submitted by Yoyosh (does anybody know who that is?)