Fenkell with Buzzed Hair? It was my 21st Relax.

Unbelievable events leading up to today since my last post ladies and gentlemen. I now type to you and blog as a 21 year old man living in Algonquin Park Canada. For those of you who dont know I am a Hockey Director/Senior Counselor at Camp Tamakwa. I've been at camp since late June and return home on August 24th just in time for the last few special days of Welcome Week at Michigan State, my second home. When I last updated my blog roughly a week ago I spoke about the anticipation of my 21st Birthday and a few other impotrant upcoming events. Well they all happened and all were beyond exciting and successful in every sense of the word. When I returned back to the shores of South Tea, where camp is located I was informed that the senior girls dedicated their whole entire Fake Mini Colour War Break to me. Their theme was where will Michael Fenkell be in 30 years. The 4 occupations they envisioned me as were a Gym Teacher, Motivational Speaker, Superhero, and a ESPN commentator, I believe. I have yet to see their break because I was on Day off when it was perfromed in front of the whole camp but it was an honor that they would dedicate their whole break to me so thank you to all of you. The senior girls names I know include Erin Sachse, Aly Seel, Elana Folbe, Mallory Tyner, Aly Huff, Taylor Bronstine, Katie Dresner, Katie Robinson, Izzy Goldberg-Jessip, and Anna Eisenberg. Thank you to all of the beatuiful senior girls who I heard did a great job mocking and making fun of Fankle. That was the night I returned to camp, Thursday night. Friday was the last day for first month campers. It was an extremely sad day for me and my cabin because 8 out of my 14 campers headed home. The campers that returned home included Connor Schram (the only camper who achieved his High Award in Hockey), Jake Seel, Dylan Deitch, Jonah Adelman, Kravitsky, Jake Migdal (Howie Midgals cousin), and Ethan Beallor. I miss all of you guys tremendously. That night was beyond sad as I mentioned because over 50 percent of my stock was leaving throughout Saturday. Saturday was Visiting Day, in which campers parents and all others who want to visit come into camp and spend the day there with their children or friends. I was very fortunate that my fajjj made it to Tamakwa via plane to see me. He owed it to me considering he never came to see me in Barcelona when I was there for almost half a year. We had an outstanding time together as he met all my campers and their parents as well as a lot of his old friends at Tamakwa. He was a camper at Tamakwa in the late 60's and early 70's. His counselor at camp in 1972 was Chevy Chase, just some random information for you there. After all the parents left all staff went to Bonita, Michael Budman (the owner of Roots) cottage located within a boat ride distance away from camp. We spent the night there, had great food including the head chef from Webers cooking their famous burgers for us. It was a great night finished off perfectly by me as I came through in the clutch with a Greek Goddess. Sunday was a wierd day for me because it was the beginning of second month. This ultimately meant new co-counselors and new campers for Fankle. I was lucky to stay in the exact cabin I was in, Dickson Bonfield as well as getting Josh Freed and Matt Begley as new Co-Counselors. I sadly lost James Robinson to another cabin and was happy to remain co's with Josh Ketai. I gained 5 new campers including two first year campers from Israel. It was a fun fulfilled day in which I got to become accustomed to new kids and a new cabin aura. Monday the 28th, was a great day and a hectic day as well. I spent most of the day preparing for my bitrhday and was fortunate to start teaching hockey again and begin getting to know my kids better. The unfortunate note is that a Lice epidemic began in camp as basically 1 out of every 4 kids found out they had lice. A bunch of campers were told that they needed to shave their heads due to lice and were afraid of being embarrassed. So Smitty and I decided to be pioneers and shave our heads on my birthday so that the kids that needed to get their heads shaved wouldnt feel left out. So I currently sit at my friend Alexis Goldenbergs cottage in Gilford, Ontario with a buzzed haircut. I look great according to my inside sources but a lot like Jeffrey Fenkell. Back to late monday night now. As my birthday approached at midnight I organized a flip cup game at midnight to celebrate the birth of my 21st. We drank bug juice obviously because alcohol is prohibited in camp. The teams were Smitty, Jonah Radums Silverstein, Chad Gans, Michael Mudd, and myself vs. Michael Ran, Josh Forman, Chris Keating, Dan Berman, and Harry Snider. Our team lost both games as I was the anchor but lost both times before I was able to even drink out of my cup. Smitty, Matt Orienstein, and JRS gave me a great Bday card with a pack of Spitz Sunflower seeds and a Mens Health Magazine. I went to bed shortly there after in preparation for my great day. I woke up just before breakfast and made it down to eat. My campers made signs for me and the senior girls dedicated a cheer to me. It was a great feeling. It was a regular day though for me as I worked at hockey all day. I got my head buzzed later that day after dinner. That whole day was spent preapring for 16-under boys intercamp against Maintou at Maintou. I was coaching boys Basketball, Baseball and Hockey on Wednesday, the day after my 21st. The end of my day was not filled with hardcore drinking sadly and I got to sleep early to be prepared for a 7am wakeup, 2 hour drive to Maintou, and a day comprised of legit hard intense competition.

The day started off with boys baseball in which their umpire ligitimately cheated. He intentioanlly blew 5 calls, all important to the game. We lost that game 2-0. Basketball was sad as well as we lost that game. Going into the final sport played, Hockey, both camps won 4 sports. So the winner of Hockey decided the winner of Intercamp. We went down 1-0 early until our Captain Chad Schram went end to end and tied up the game with a beautiful snipe five hole. They went up shortly thereafter 2-1. Jake Fine, the games MVP, scored on a great backhand rebound to tie up the game. Connor Sakwa had a great steal and snipe to put us up 3-2 a few monutes later. It began to drizzle a little during the game which added a great effect to the game. With about 10 minutes left in the game Jake Fine once again put in another great goal to put us up 4-2. The game was called with about 6 mniutes left due to intense rain. We won the game 4-2 winning intercamp and of course in my eyes the most important sport, Hockey. What a great day that was and a great late birthday present from my boys. Our team included Chad Schram, Jake Silbert, Jake Fine, Zack Weinerman, Connor Sakwa, Evan Ketai, Mitchell Schecter, Justin Moss, Ben Aronovitz, and Brad Sucker. What a great team comprised of great attitudes and talent. Thank you to all of my players fro giving 110% that whole game. How How. Nuff Nuff. I returned back to camp in great spirits obviously and quickly changed before dinner. I left right after dinner yesterday on my day off and had a great night with some great people including Athena, the Greek Goddess. After a great sleep in and a good breakfast I sit on a computer finally to type a post. It feels great. Thank you to all those who shared their birthday wishes with me by phone or on facebook. I look foward to returning home August 24th. Dudley I love and miss you.