Author: Elissa

We all know what is happening tomorrow and we just can’t contain the excitement. We spent the day getting our summer home ready for you and it looks beautiful.  In just a few short hours, our families will be lining up down camp road and visiting day 2015 will officially begin.

Our athletes were focused and fierce today as they played hard on the courts and fields.

Freshmen/Junior Girls Basketball – CAW 8 @ Tioga 12

Collegiate Girls LAX – CAW 4 @ Starlight 10

Inter Boys Basketball – CAW 40 @ Tioga 6

Collegiate Boys Roller Hockey – CAW 8 vs. Starlight 9

Super Boys Basketball – CAW 67 vs. Tioga 15

GC/CIT Boys LAX – CAW 5 vs. Wayne 10

Another fantastic week has passed by and another hardy congratulations to the following Campers of the Week!!!!

Freshmen –                         Eden Lebovitch          Troy Golden

Junior –                                Elly Frank                  Jack Komson

Middies –                             Marli Cohen                Jack Einzig

Inters –                               Rachel Knee                  Jase Nadboy

Collegiates –                       Alexa Hallen                Alex Kapusta

Seniors –                             Hailey Wolff                Michael Hellerman

Supers –                              Sami Flyer                   Matt Rosen

GC’s –                                Alexis Ash                      David Smolowitz

CIT’s                                   Julia Blee                     Henry Weinstock

Tonight was off the charts fun with our annual Chenny Jam Basketball Game. Girls were head to toe in neon and boys wore all black. It was Girls vs. Boys in this extremely high energy crazy fun game of basketball. When the video comes out, its a must watch. Girls side brought home the win tonight but everyone left with a smile on their face as if they had floor seats at the Garden. What a great night we had.

Only a few more hours until you get to hug your children. We can’t wait to see you in the morning!!!  We wish you nothing but a joyful day with your family tomorrow. Happy Visiting Day!!!

Life is Great at Camp Chen-A-Wanda

Chenny out.

 

It was carnival day today and that means a day full of fun, rides, inflatables, cotton candy, popcorn, dunk tanks and more. The music was blasting and a giant dance party broke out in the center of carnival. The happy mood here always allows for some great random dancing. It’s easy to do that here. There is a freedom to let go and let loose here and as we boogie down to the Riff Off from Pitch Perfect 2. When you see a sea of people dancing and singing just because, it just puts a smile on your face and you cant help but join in. Not only was it a great day but the T-shirt give away was a hit as well. Every camper and staff member was given a cool T-shirt that read – There’s no WiFi and Chenny But the Connection is Strong. Our campers have thrived for 19 days without surfing the web and their heads in their devices. They proudly wore the shirts as they were outside playing all day long.

It was hard for our athletes to step away from the fun at Carnival but boys side had a few to play

Freshman/Junior Boys Basketball – CAW 8 @ Wayne 22

Collegiate Boys Basketball – CAW 34 @ Wayne 36

The fun continued into tonight’s evening activity with Wild and Wacky Races. We raced on hobby horses,  got pied in the face, played name that tune and giant word scrambler and of course, some of us got slimmed. It was just that kind of a day that we got silly, had fun and there wasn’t a worry in the world. When we think of the stresses that our kids have for 10 months out of the year with their crazy schedules, test pressures, college applications, running to practices and hebrew school, it is so nice that days like this exist for them. The best thing is watching our campers be free of stress as the biggest decision of the day is what toy to pick out as they cashed their carnival tickets in at the end of the day. It’s good to be a Chenny Kid!!

Chenny Out

 

 

The fun just continues here with our divisional day trips today. Everyone enjoyed their day out of camp.

Our Cherokee Camp (Freshman – Middies) spent their day at Nathaniel Cole National Park. They all boarded the buses and were excited to play at the park all day. It was a great chilled out afternoon as they built sand castles, played in the lake and relaxed with friends. When they rolled back into camp around 5pm, each camper came off the buses with huge smiles and loved their trip out of camp.  It was a fun night with a huge pizza party followed by Bingo! What could be better? They had a fantastic day and are all snug in their bunks getting ready for another incredible Chenny day.

Mohican Camp (Inters & Collegiates) spent their day at Dorney Park and they had the best day ever. They went on rides galore. It was a great day spent with friends riding roller coasters and having the time of their lives. Exactly what an ideal summer day looks like. When the buses rolled in and our campers got off the buses, smiles were as big as some of the giant stuffed animals they won at Dorney Park today.  It was a great day spent with great people.

Navajo Camp (Seniors-GC’s) spent began their day at Camel Beach for some fun in the water park. It was great way to beat the heat while having the time of their lives.  They swooshed down the toilet bowl, got lazy down the lazy river, slipped down the slip and slide and got bounced off the giant bungee blob. Then it was time to dry off and head out to the Crossings for some fun shopping and eating and that is exactly what they all did. It was a packed day of fun for our Navajo campers.

Our CIT’s enjoyed a packed day as they enjoyed breakfast at Binghams. If you have never been there, it needs to be on your bucket list as the world Best Breakfast!!! Then it was off to Camel Beach for an afternoon of water rides and even though these kids are CIT’s they love to play so it was off to SkyZone to jump around some more!!! A fantastic day and night for our CIT’s as they had a blast on their trip day.

All the campers are safe and sound back in their bunks, all exhausted from an amazing day out. What a successful  trip day, full of memories that will last a lifetime. Your children were absolutely fantastic and every place our Chenny kids were today, we received praise on how well behaved and respectful our campers are.  Gotta love that. We sure do.

Chenny Out

 

 

 

 

 

Do you ever have those days that feel great from start to finish? Those days that you wake up with s smile and go to sleep with a happy heart and everything in between felt just right? We have a lot of those days here at Chenny but today was that day. We all go t a little extra sleep after the past 3 days of intense Olympic competition and that extra sleep felt so good. As we are entering our third week, it feels like we have been here forever and just got here at the same time. It’s a feeling that you totally get when you live here and experience this Chen-A-Wanda bubble. We are all in full stride, feeling great and are part of an incredible community. It just keeps on getting better.

An awesome day for our Chenny Athletes. We are so proud of them and not for any of Win’s they get but how gracious they are on the courts and fields and how they play with such deep integrity. Chenny Pride runs deep.

Freshmen/Junior Girls  Basketball- CAW 18 vs. Shoshanim 11 (game was continued today due to rain delay)

Inter Girls Basketball – CAW 29 vs. Shoshanim 6

Senior/ Super Tennis Tournament @ Indian Head- Jayden Bier won entire tourney for her age division / Daisy Chaskin & Arielle Ashkenase made semi Final/ hannah Seigel made it to finals / Jess Leichter & Cami Oresky won entire tourney (doubles)

Senior/Super Girls LAX – CAW 10 vs. Westmont 8

GC/CIT Girls LAX – Caw 10 vs. Tioga 8

Inter Boys Softball – CAW 10 @ B’Nai Brith 2

Collegiate Boys Soccer – CAW 8 @ Westmont 0

Super Boys Baseball – CAW 12 @ Lohikan 0

GC/CIT Boys Tennis – CAW 1 @ Tioga 4

We love highlighting those campers who are a force to be reckoned with and our Campers of The Week deserve all the accolades. Congratulations to this weeks very special campers:

Freshmen – Addison Rubovitz & Austin Levitz

Juniors – Sydney Geller & Drew Schimer

Middies – Jillian Oresky & Justin Miller

Inters – Chloe Lebovitz & Alex Goldstein

Collegiates – Mariel Gaines & Mitchell Limsky

Seniors – Kaley Morabito & Kobe Koren

Supers – Sara Kay & Sam Rochlin & Bennet Goldstein

GC’s – Dani Zucoff & Jeremy Schier

CIT’s – Gabby Vargas & Zach Temin

Next, it was onto our first KINDNESS CAMPER AWARDS. We launched this program and had no idea how the campers would respond. We challenged the campers to do 2 kind things for other people every single day they are here at Chenny this summer and then asked the kids to nominate people who they saw do acts of kindness or had inspired them in some way. When we opened the box to sift through the nominations, we were shocked with what we saw and what we read. There were over 200 nominations,  each more sincere than the next and all so very inspiring. The box was stuffed to the brim full of acts of kindness we are doing for one another up here. It took our breath away and renewed our spirit in the importance of kindness and how easily good will spreads. As hard as it was to choose amongst all the amazing nominations we read, we chose 15 kids that stood out as this weeks Kindest Campers. Though we only chose 15 to receive Kindness Tshirts, everyone won because when you are kind, it just feels so good. A huge congratulations goes to these tremendously KIND kids:

Jake Schuster, Corey Ash, Drew Schimer, Sammi Leon, Eli Kroskin, Jared Paulen, Ryan Kertzner, Bari Klein, Dylan Bass, Sam Tavel, Elana Kessler, Main Hersley, Jess Leichter, Cami Oresky & Makayla Stapler.

We could not be more proud of our campers and how much Kindness really matters here at Camp Chen-A-Wanda.

Chenny out.