The first................ two days in the army

Yeah I know what you're all thinking... "That's nothing", or "I could do that", or "He should ask for his money back". Well let me put an end to that thinking right now, its hard standing in lines all day and marching. No really, we had something known as 'fake' training, its to slowly break in to the army (if that sounds at all plausible). So we do not have our real officers and therefore nothings as serious as it should be. The only thing that was actually one hundred percent real with a guy yelling and scaring the living day lights out of everyone was the uniform officer. He is in charge of making sure no one violates the dress code and if you do its a fine. They claim there are army police walking around everywhere waiting for you to mess up but I have never seen them. This has come to make me think that they walk around disguised as normal people and the second your shirt is out of your pants or shoelace hanging down the boot instead of tucked in... they find you! Everything so far has gone well, received our uniforms/everything else and we started learning proper formations and 'greetings' to commanders/officers. I have successfully hurdled the language barrier, with the help of friends (8 English speakers in our group), we usually get the gist of things. We got off Thursday afternoon because of the fast and are off till Monday afternoon because of Purim in Jerusalem! So my break is longer than the actual days I was in the army. Even though we didn't do any intense training I was still so tired. In the meantime I am staying at my friend's grandparents and walking in between there and my sister and brother-in-laws transferring stuff and what not. I know... free buses, but you have to wear the uniform and my jeans and naot are a lot more comfortable. Anyways, this shabbat I'm going to be with Yeshiva but eating out for meals. Oh and by the way, for all those that think the army is a dirt pile, we cleaned our rooms (we stayed in it two nights) four times, each time sweeping and scrubbing with soap and forced to shower every night etc. Now it could just be (most probably is) that they had nothing better for us to do, but still, good sign for all those moms out there who worry about their sons never having clean fingernails again after the army.
Shabbat Shalom!!