TEMPLE TIMES NEWS FROM THE RIMON ZONE

The Confused Collage Group

By Hayley Lazarow

Originally, I was going to interview the Challah group with their abstract Challah pizzas. But while walking towards the multipurpose room, one room caught my eye. Room 4, or the Collage group’s room stood out amongst the other groups. Their room was cluttered and chaotic, with magazines and scrap papers scattered everywhere. When I walked in, no one seemed to notice me, which gave me the idea that they were dead focused. I went up to my sister Kira, and her best friend, Sara, who seemed to be working on a collage word. I asked them what they were doing and their answer was very vague, “Sara’s having a lot of trouble cutting out the letter E.” When I questioned them more thoroughly, I found out they were making the word love out of paper. (Cheesy, I know.) Then I asked them, “What does this have to do with the collage?” They didn’t seem to know. I then realized they really didn’t know what they were doing. They admitted it themselves as Sara said, “We don’t really know, or care about what we're doing.” To me that’s REAL behind the scenes of what actually goes on in a chug!

Even though this was very disorganized, I will admit, the kids seemed to be having a lot of fun. I also will say I am not saying that the chug is bad. I visited again on the next chug day after I wrote most of this and saw that it was way more organized and the kids were getting along well. They were making a food collage. Just keep in mind, it was their first week of chug when I first interviewed them. So overall, sure, it was a little crazy, sure it was chaotic, but it got better and that’s all that matters. (I’m becoming so cheesy.)