Tawonga Tidbit
Welcome to the “Tawonga Tidbit”! Follow along for a daily dose of Camp with our kitchen menu, Camp birthdays and more. We hope this series brings you a bit closer to Tawonga – enjoy!
🍳 Today’s Kitchen Menu
Breakfast
🥚 Scrambled eggs, biscuits and oranges
Lunch
🧀 Grilled cheese and tomato soup
🍇 Fruit: Grapes
Dinner
🍝 Spaghetti with meat sauce, roasted veggies and garlic bread
Dessert: Brownies
A Note on Alternative Foods
🥑 Tasty vegetarian and vegan options are available for every meal, in addition to a “middle table” with alternative meal options to meet every camper’s needs.
🥣 During breakfast, the middle table offers a wide selection of cold cereal and milk (dairy-free options too), in addition to hot cereal with toppings. Each lunch and dinner, campers can choose from options at the middle table, like sun-butter and jelly sandwiches, tuna sandwiches and hummus.
🏕 Backpacking Trips and Challenge Course
For the first week of Session A, all campers are in Camp. Backpacking trips and visits to the Challenge Course will start next week!
🎂 Birthdays
What’s so special about today? We are celebrating the birthday of camper Nshan E.! Happy Birthday Nshan – enjoy your birthday bowl!
Curious what celebrating a birthday at Camp Tawonga looks like? Check out this post!
☀️ How’s the Weather?
High of 85, low of 53
🎶 In Case You Missed It …
In April we marked Tawonga’s 95th anniversary with a joyous virtual concert and celebration. Tawonga Together LIVE featured amazing artists like the Atkinson sisters seen in the video below. Both Shiloh and Lily are working at Camp this summer – Shiloh as a song leader and Lily as a Unit Head!
Shiloh & Lily Atkinson
“How Could Anyone Ever Tell You”
Photos: First Morning at Camp
This morning, campers participated in rotations to learn about the awesome opportunities at Tawonga and what activities they will be able to take part in throughout the session.
(Typically, we will be posting more photos on the blog, but today our blogger was very busy capturing pictures of every bunk in Camp (including the SCITs)! Those will all post this evening.)
Campers from the unit of Nitzanim (B-Aleph and B-Bet and G-Aleph and G-Bet) visit the garden to learn about the amazing activities they can participate in this summer!
Garden staff give campers fresh mint leaves to flavor their water while they stay hydrated.
The In-Training (or "IT") teens participate in icebreaker games.
Campers in the unit of Carmel (Bunks B-1, B-2, G-1, G-2) wait by the pool to take their swim test so they can enjoy water activities this summer.
Campers visit "A and C" to learn about art activities they can do this summer!
Learning from the Jewish programming team about activities this session. 
Carmel campers read about the many different Jewish programming opportunities this summer, including a sillier one involving giving the goats in the garden a "Baa-Mitzvah."
Health Center staff talk about the importance of staying hydrated this summer and other safety tips.
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