Daniel's Summer Blog

This weekend was the campers' first shabbat at camp. I spent most of shabbat worrying about driving down to Atlanta. The plan was that I would leave camp immediately after Havdalah and drive down to my friend Avi's house in Atlanta. She was actually in Germany, (World Cup!) Paris and Edinburgh, but her family graciously agreed to host me even without her and to drive me to the airport at the ungodly hour of 4AM. So I tried to drive out of camp only to find the back gate, from which I intended to exit, chained and locked. So I three-point turned and headed towards the front gate, used less this year because of the massive construction going on near it. On the way to the gate I ran into our security who informed me that the front gate was indeed open. As I approached it I saw that he was right, sort of. The gate was certainly unlocked, but some genius had arrived after shabbat and thus the gate was already locked and he was unable to drive into camp. Logically, he parked right in front of the gate so that it could barely be opened enough to let one car squeeze out by driving through the mud, which was exactly what I had to do in Gert's pimping Volvo that does not pick up radio. Once clear of camp, I foraged down the moutain, the only source of light my own headlights, silently fearing that I would wind up in the middle of nowhere with no visible roadsigns. Eventually I made it down the moutain only to realize that there are no lights on the highway south until one hits I-85, which is pretty far along. The drive was dull, but thankfully no one was ont he road because they all had better things to do on a Saturday night. I went to bed at 2am and then woke up 90 minutes later to the airport for my 6AM flight.

I met up with my parents in Charlotte and we all went to Hillel and Sharon's wedding in Cleveland. There were Jews, Food, Deisers and rabbis. There was dancing, socialization and even napping during the Sheva Brachot when the FHJC Cantor took about half an hour to sing one. It was a good though exhausting trip. The drive back was also uneventful. I feel like I am leaving things out, I will put them in if I ever remember them.