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Thursday, July 16, 2009

A hard day [camp] night

A look at some of the events of the past few days here in TRLEOOB*:

Tue. 11:00 PM

A certain Shiputzim child (ACSC) finally comes home from his youth group’s mangal (barbecue).

Wed. 8:00 AM

ACSC decides to stay home from day camp. (According to the schedule, this morning’s activities are to include snappling, a “swing”, and wall climbing. ACSC feels that he’s too tired for any of that.)

Wed. 8:00 PM

Nevertheless, sleeping bag in tow, he heads back to camp this evening for an overnight.

Thu. 12:05 PM

Extraordinarily grubby, bleary-eyed, and barely coherent, ACSC stumbles into the house. He responds to my greeting with what can best be described as a grunt and mumbles something about going to put his stuff away. I get back to work while I wait for him to reappear.

Thu. 12:08 PM

I realize that it has been a few minutes since he headed off to his room and send out a search party to find him. He’s soon located – sprawled out on the living room recliner, fast asleep….

Lesson learned: Summer vacation is to getting enough rest as oil is to water. In other words, they don’t mix…

smile_teeth

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4 comments:

  1. As far as I can tell, "snappling" is a Heblish word. In American English, you would say rappelling.

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  2. Michael Kopinsky - LOL! :-)
    I see that I'm losing my English faster than I thought! In fact, I probably should include this in my next Heblish post...
    :-)

    Thanks for the heads-up, and Shabbat Shalom!

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  3. Can they just go in and out of camp as they wish? Seems weird to me. How are parents supposed to keep track of where their kids are?

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  4. Ilana-Davita - No, the kids can't just walk out of camp. They finished early on Thursday, because they had that overnight on Wednesday night.

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