Hi everyone!

Let me tell you in a bit about what happened at Jacobs today.

We started off the day with a delicious chocolate chips pancakes. It seems that today it was tastier than ever. We got some energy for the day with a great song session led by Leah Delorenzo. After breakfast everybody went to their activities and I went to see my Talmidim Digital Media (or – “D.M”) specialty camp.

Yesterday at the specialty camp, Noam, an Israeli counselor taught the Talmidim how to create Flash animation and they started to draw famous photos of Yitzhak Rabin in Adobe Flash. Today we started working on animating those drawings.

Later on, we went to the art room (“Beit Omanoot”) and started learning how to use the dark room. I particularly enjoyed this program because it’s a joined program with the Visual Arts specialty camp. Lauren taught us about how to set the film and the paper in the machine, how to figure out the exposure time, how to use the Developer, the Stop, and the Fixer and the kids got to choose a photo to enlarge on a paper. All of the photos were recreation of famous photos of Jewish heroes (Have you heard about our timeline yet?).

For lunch we had chicken patties that were SO good. We got to see some funny skits and went to got canteen and have rest hour.

After that, I went back to the “Technion”, The DM headquarter, to see our Maskilim DM kids. Today we challenged them to create their own language with different words and accent and we had them going around camp and teaching other people this language while videotaping it. While walking in camp I got to see a lot of campers having fun playing basketball at the upper, swimming at the pool (Brecha), climbing the wall and doing the zip line. We talked about Eliezer Ben Yehuda and how he had to teach people the Hebrew language that was almost as weird as the gibberish that they came up with. Tomorrow we will edit their videos and create a funny video clip using iMovie. Those maskilimers are extremely talented. Wait until you see our end of the session website. Have you checked out their animation on YouTube already?

After having great steak fingers for dinner, the campers went to a rainy Chofesh (free time) and listened to our Chofesh-Show (I hope you know that at Jacobs we have the best radio station led by the campers!).

The Talmidim boys went to an indoor Tzofim (scouts) night, the Talmidim girls are still rocking in their extraordinary bunk nights, Maskilim are doing a program about the environment at the Merkaz Tarboot (Ed Center) and I’m sitting at the office, making sure that tomorrow will have another Jacobs Magic day at DM specialty camp.

Hope you are having fun at home! We sure do have a lot of it here at Jacobs! I can’t believe camp is over in less than a week! This session just flew by. You know what that means….

Yours truly,

OR SHACHAR אוֹר שָׁחַר