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I guess if I’m answering any question here, it’s be: which electives should I choose? The answer in my book is this: Don’t sweat it! Camp is the best place to try out different activities, and adventuring is the best way to make amazing camp memories.

From all my years at camp, I have learned so many ways to be myself including wearing a tutu for dinner for absolutely no reason.

But 8 years later I now know what camp is all about. I feel ready to do everything that has been done for me for my campers, so camp can continue to be what it is for generations to come.

Since it is our last Shabbat this summer, we feel that love when we remember to be thankful for all the time we spent with our friends. And even though time feels like it is running out, we still have time to make more friends!

As our session and summer come to a close, and we experience our “lasts” – last Shabbat, last song session, last night – it’s natural to look back and reflect on how far we’ve come and all that we have experienced throughout the summer.

Everyone knows about it and handles it differently. From to bunks to renovated pools, to new birkat traditions, campers become counselors, counselors become unit heads and after that they move on but one thing that doesn’t change is friendship.

We chose love because love is thinking about others and being together. At Camp Harlam, we experience love almost every day. We can talk and have fun together, and make lots of new friends

Building the next generation of leaders is crucial to camp as well as to our society as a whole. Many outside observers view the Gesher program as solely giving the participants experience and training in being a counselor. But the reality is that the lessons learned apply far beyond being a camp counselor.

Other counselors who thought about the campers specifically with words like: silly, adorable, enthusiastic, energetic, goofy, giggly, crazy, unpredictable, and dirty.

It’s a little bit surreal to be here, isn’t it? Whether you started way back in Carmel or started just last summer, you would look at those Chavurah campers doing their readings at their final service, and would think that the time would never come that you would be in their shoes.