MAZAL TOV to rabbi and mrs shorty on the birth if a baby boy!
They have already been contacted by nab scouts.

NageelaWest

NageelaWest is movin' along!
In a week we should have a brochure, website prices and dates.
Stay posted!

UTAH, here we come!

So while all of you were vacationing in your beautiful sub- zero conditions, I've been out here suffering in our inclement 85-90 degree days. Aside from that , here's big news!

I spent yesterday up in Utah (the most beautiful state, btw) checking out a new campus for Nageela West!
Yup, that's right. Once we finalize the deal I'll let you know more, but all I can tell you now is I've never seen a camp with nicer facilities than we will have! The area is beautiful, the rooms are incredible! NAGEELAWESTROCKS!

I'll post some pics (maybe) if I can find my camera.

Sukkos party pics

Looks like the Jersey boys had an awesome time at the Sukkos party! Wish I could have been there, but I couldn't find my winter coat.

He looks way too happy. Any cops around?

Luckily, Nageela staff members are very mature- parents, you can rest easy now!

As I was saying

He's up to something. I know it, he is...

You're supposed to eat the dog, not the finger...

Fetch, Fido!

How do you pitch to a strike zone like that?

Thanks to Corky for the pics.

Disappointing

Its only October and it's already way under 100 degrees. What kind of desert is this anyway?

more Sukkos Event

SukkahTon in Manalapan NJ This Thursday, October 8th for all NJ Nageela Campers both current & former. Baseball, BBQ @ a Sukkah & Bowling. Meating 3pm @ Park on Union Hill Road, east of Route 9, past ShopRite ending @ Manalapan Country Lanes, 363 Route 33 around 9pm. Cost $12 to cover bowling expenses. If you are coming please text or call Mordechai Shenker @ 917-225-3029 or Yoni Hoch @ 718-614-0474

more Sukkos Event

SukkahTon in Manalapan NJ This Thursday, October 8th for all NJ Nageela Campers both current & former. Baseball, BBQ @ a Sukkah & Bowling. Meating 3pm @ Park on Union Hill Road, east of Route 9, past ShopRite ending @ Manalapan Country Lanes, 363 Route 33 around 9pm. Cost $12 to cover bowling expenses. If you are coming please text or call Mordechai Shenker @ 917-225-3029 or Yoni Hoch @ 718-614-0474

Columbus Day Event

Colombus Day at Camp Nageela Featuring awesome food, Sports, Indoor Swimming & Paintball. Departing: Sunday, October 11th @ 10pm Arriving back home: Monday, October 12th @ 8pm. Price $25 Bring a friend and COME FREE! Not including transportation fee. Transportation available from Lawrence (Long Island) & East Brunswick NJ - $40 fee. To register Call 516-374-1528 or visit www.jepli.org

Hi, Holidays!

I know a bunch of you were at Nageela for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. In fact, there were at last 200 people there.
I want to hear from you. If you were there, please post a comment about it!
Thanks

Hey everybody!
I certainly enjoyed dipping my pickle in the honey.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Camp Nageela would like to wish a very very
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
to the following awesome campers with birthdays this week:
Aaron Gollubier- Monday
Eitan Agagi- Tuesday
Aaron Zelka- Tuesday

Sleep-deprived doctors told to drink coffee

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Exhausted Australian doctors have been told to drink up to six cups of coffee a day to stay awake during extended shifts... (read more)

Don't they realize they're missing the boat?
The solution is simple.

Good Shabbos!

Wishing the whole Nageela family an amazingly relaxing, happy and inspirational Shabbos!

Bunk Photos

They're finally up!
Go to www.campnageela.org to view the bunk photos, or click here!

MAZAL TOV!

Mazal Tov
to our awesome camp Driver
Rachmiel Maxwell
upon his getting engaged!

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.