Oorahthon 2018 - Surprise Reunion on Air!

okay so let's go back let's go back to the beginning people you were in the camp you were in this zone a bunch of years a bunch as in do you remember what year you started I think that's a trivia question 2005 wow that's like years and years ago over kravitz do you remember 2005 absolutely okay I'm not gonna ask you how old you were then because some people are gonna be doing math so I'm not gonna ask you then but I'm on the mic correct that you went through a number of phases throughout the camp you went through different different divisions in camp yeah thank you you made it up to the senior division teen teens discover you Wow went to seminary and look at that okay have you had have you had any other experiences with other than camp um I mean where's been really like the fabric of my life in a way because ever since that 2005 summer they were just with me at every point of my life wherever I was with whether it be switching from the school that I was in at the time 2005 2006 I remember I remember just talking to one of my counselors when summer and telling her like it's so hard to go back home and to go like you you have this fire in your belly when you leave camp and you want to conquer and you want to do and you're so like you're so ready to be and then you get home and you're back in the same environment back in the same group of friends and you just you can't it's so hard to hold on to and it would come like December time and I would just lose it and there was one yeah you losing Suzanne you lose the fire you lose the like the courage I guess I'm not sure it's important to clarify that losing the enthusiasm is not unique I'm sure everybody and and I remember um talking to one of my counters on the way home from camp and I told her I'm like I'm so not ready to go back now like I badly want to be this person that I that I feel right now and going back you mean going back going back to school going back to school going back to that whole environment like I knew it's not I know I'm not I'm not gonna be able to handle it for so long for a whole ten months without without like you know without the people that I have and the people that I met and the funds that I made is that one school and that your she's like well why don't you just switch and I going to mean switch and she helped me along with Aurra finds a better school a more appropriate school for where I was holding who is she should name first name is okay Idina I can say Wow have you kept up with her at all periodically actually I've seen her and it's always nice to see what did she how did she influence you to switch school what did she say what was that magic that made it I never dawned on me to switch schools get yourself out of the situation that you're in like I didn't know that best opportunity for me you know but we're like they were able to do that for me and and I guess that's where it all started so this Edina just gave you the idea or did she take steps financial steps whether it be getting me into the school I can imagine you even know which school to go though do you think do you think Edina knows about the impact that you made on your life with that I hope so if I dinner was here tonight if she would be sitting here tonight what would you want to tell her I would think her so much for for going to and helping and being there for me when I needed her most basically he redirected my life in the direction that it needed to go in order to get to where I am right now I I have a little surprise for you yeah Adina's not here life no no she wasn't able to make it here live yeah but she is on the phone and you're joking no I'm not joking that's the last time you met at Luna it was probably before you were married and perhaps Athena knows I'm sure I'm sure she knows you're married I'm sure she knows you're now a mom you have two children and I'm sure she's super proud but we have Adina on the line is she is she available hello I'm great how are you sorry no I said you're not suicide the view on here then I could be on here so uh-huh you deserve to be on here I don't know I really came on to say that I when I was contacted about the story I guess I was like what what did I say to you I knew that you were a vis just are always in camp and you were like so incisive and everyone was always so into you and I what did I say and there my dream and it just hit me like it was such an inspiration for me to realize that there was like seeing that I was able to see something or be there for something yeah I didn't have to totally realize the impact of and obviously I mean with you and everything else but you did make it happen who you are today is amazing I dunno it's okay I wanted to check for a moment now that we jogged your memory a bit do you do you recall that conversation you had with he loved that many years ago do you remember what it is that you told her I do remember going home oh you're going home together and I I am really talking perineal was a very like insightful person like thinking about life I guess how do they hold onto the inspiration or everything but when I was first told I said something I wasn't quite sure what I said and then when she from that was told I like alright then at all together and I remember like the change and he what did mention it to me and I remember just so many years ago but he did bring it up and was would you do you know we do classify that conversation as something that you really prepared for and you did a lot of research and say how am I gonna help heal up what what can I do for her or was that more of a gut reaction not prepared one and I've one of those like you know in camp there's lots of those like you know I guess I so he's in full conversation it was really like on the bus going home but it was really just what No one of my couple of charities was also it also shows who Gila is somebody to take something and got something from it she's like a that type of person so today the staff from Ryan and girls on the zone girls division are literally the clothes like some of the closest friends that I have in my life and like just even we came to Lakewood for Shabbos was by a former staff member with her former staff members sister we all spent Chavez together like it it it's not just like a camp thing I think it becomes like a life long relationship that's why it's cool more than just the camp