W ho is faster than a speed-ing bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and earns lots of points? A Camp Achdus camper! The Kfiratorium is transformed every morning into a lively Beis Medrash. Campers in Alef, Ches, and Daled daven and then attend their respective shiurim given by Yisroel Meir Burger, Rabbi Ye-hoshua Duskis, and Rabbi Reu-ven Goldstein. Meanwhile, Vuv and Suf campers learn with Rabbi Nulman or their esteemed chavrusas, the erudite counselors we are so proud to have.

From the Chessers and Daleders learning mishnayos to the Vuver and Suffers learning Gemara Kid-dushin, everyone can and is accu-mulating a fortune in eternal, priceless reward. As a small bonus, Camp Achdus also supplements those points with less valuable (but more tangi-ble) GPS Points, named after a very famous navigator.

The points are bh rolling in faster than they can be spent on delicious can-teen treats and fabulous prizes! The prestigious Top Ten point leaders in Vuv and Suf are posted daily on the Wall of Fame in the Kfiratorium. A

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The first week of camp was a little bit meshigeh! You disagree? Well, letmeeeeexplain!

We wrapped up a few boys in toilet paper. Yechiel Green-span was one of the Wrappors and Mordechai Mosheyev was one of the Wrappees. Motty Kolodny served ketchup blind-folded to Moishy Couzens. Pinny Elbaum drank 13 cups of water in 4 minutes and Shloimy Ribiat drank a concoction the contents of which we are still not sure. The counselors decided to put on an impromptu play about the importance of Avaca-do. It turns out that the active ingredient in Avacado is Vitamin Chof Gimel. Who woulda thunk it?

There was also Human Bingo! Tuvia Rosen came in first place. He found out that Yaa-kov N. was born in the same month as him, S.M.S. can touch his tongue to his nose, and Efraim P. has a broken arm.

In other news, Avromy Pol-lack and Daniel Brenner stood at the front of the Kfirato-rium and told stories. At the

same time! Matty Brennen performed a skit in front of the whole camp about a king who wants to go to Eretz Yisroel. The counselors wondered Who Wants to Buy a Duck, which somehow morphed into Who Wants to Run Camp Achdus with Mrs. Goldstein! Shlomo Feld-man threw a football into a bucket over 100 ft away. Oh I almost forgot about the Brothers game! Did you know that Zach Bril wants to be a Soccer player when he grows up and the Baumingers favorite food is Cheese Blintzes? Did you know that if you have a brother in camp, the likelihood of you agreeing to do your chores when asked falls substantially? Well now we know a lot of things that maybe we really dont want to know!

We also went to Flyers Skate Zone and froze our kahoozees off while listening to Everybody wants Moshiach for the 400th time. Its hard to believe we did so much in a week and that is besides the sports and swim-ming we did at the new Simon Clanaman pool!

SMILING ON THE FIELD: Shloimy B. and Dovid S.

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Monday

The week started off with some

unbelievable learning groups!

Davening was powerful as bunks Ches and

Daled belted out the different parts of

Davening with Rabbi Dave Lubell. Tickets

were won and prizes were given for ex-

traordinary prayer sessions.

Hey, who is that man carrying a large

bag of sports equipment? Yes, it is Mr. Ira

Somers, back once again for Somers

Sports! Soccer, Hockey, Kickball! No sport

is too preposterous for the majestic Mr.

Somers!

The first game of Leagues be-

gan!!! The four teams, Afar, Aish, Mayim

and Ruach battled it out to see who would

be the final conquerors. Alas, the games

did not count yet as they were exhibition

games. At lunch, the counselors put on a

hilarious play about a hair stylist/barber

who actually thought he was a cook. Un-

fortunately, Shloime Ribiats hair was the

recipient of Yisroel Meirs tragic mistake.

As always, tickets were picketed and

freeze pops were won. But

thats beside the point!

We ended the day

with a crazy game

of Actionary. Da-

vid Bril, Dani Hor-

witz, Aharon Nul-

man, and Idan

Bitas fought over a

Lulav and Esrogor

was it a baseball bat?

Who knows! This is ac-

tionary, and you never know

where the silent skit shall take you.

Tuesday

Fast Day went so fast we didnt even

have any camp...

Wednesday The day started out

with the recitation of

Tehilim for the dire situ-

ation in the Holy Land

and then we were off to our

regularly scheduled davening

and learning Groups. Rabbi

Duskis plied the young

Achdus children with power-

ful kitchen Torah about the

Yomim Tovim, and Rabbi

Goldstein filled the hallways

with sound of holiday teach-

ings. The rest of the day

passed by very quickly, as

the students and campers of

Camp Achdus had so much

fun they lost all of their

watches. Bunk Alef played a mean game

of soccer and made 3D Rosh Hashana

Cards. Bunk Ches ate a mean lunch and

shopped at the canteen.

The rest of the camp had leagues, and

then the real fun started. The boys board-

ed the Maytav busses and headed to swim

in one of the wettest pools in the Eastern

hemisphere. Mr. Clanamans pool would

be the wettest but his half

brother on his mothers

side has a pool 2 degrees

wetter in Perth Amboy.

The boys returned

from swimming to

see their money dis-

appear. No not really!

It was M.M.M: Magical

Magician Michael, who

found Dovid Nulmans

dollar bill in the middle of a

lemon and made David Bril (on his

very Bar Mitzvah Day) look like Mickey

Mouse! It was a very strange magic show

when his rabbit buzzard ate someones

card and he stuck a real pin through a real

balloon and did not pop it. Another crazy

hazy day at Camp Achdus!

Thursday The day once again starts off

with dazzling davening and lumdishe

learning. Yechiel Greenspan klerred a cha-

kira from Rav Boruch Ber that was mamish

a velts kasha! As we speak, he is up to

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4,400 points which translates

to a fairly large amount of

freeze pops! After learning,

Mr. Sommers is back, but

thats not even the most

active part of the day! Go

Carts are back on at Camp

Achdus along with EZ Rollers

and Scooters. What a great

activity! And what is that

large flat box sitting on the

office floor? Oh its our

brand new Air Hockey Ta-

ble!!! Yahoo!!! The Game

room is now double the

fun!!!

Lunch is delicious, but not

nearly as edible as Sing Your

Mouth Out with our new

reigning champion, Avrohom

Yitzchok Duskis. He sang

some really great songs com-

posed by his very own fa-

ther!

Following the lingering

lunch, Bunks Alef and Ches

played a mad game of bal-

loon-a-rama. How many bal-

loons can you keep up in the

air? Two, Five, Ten? We shall

see, we shall see.

The day ended with a

brand new game brought to

Camp Achdus: Skits in A Bag!

Each bunk got a bag and had

to use those props for a very

strange play. That was fine

for Bunk Alef because it was

1973 and that was a very

strange year as everyone

knows. Bunk Ches tried to kill

someone with a wire hanger

but BH that came to a quick

stop. Bunk Daled played a

Baseball game with garbage

but somehow scored 50 runs

anyway. Bunk Vov Katan

made fun of their teacher

and tried to poison him to

death and Vov Suf took an

entire bank hostage (I think).

Bunk Vov Kattan won the day

and a free trip to Ritas!!!

Friday

Its a beautiful Sunny day

at Camp Achdus! Thats no

surprise but whats crazy is

the Fast Food, Electrical Ap-

pliances and Torah Heroes.

Yes we played FFEATH! For

lunch we played some more

games and said a loud and

resounding Sha Sha Shabbat

Shalom!!! Between that &

Air Hockey, Camp ROCKS! A

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Bunk Ches plays an enthusi-astic game of soccer

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MASMID OF THE WEEK

David Bril

Mazel Tov to our very esteemed bunk suffer, DAVID BRIL, on his

Bar Mitzvah this week!

Meatball of the Week

Aharon Nulman