Sorry I have not posted in so long... been busy! Two months have passed already! Can you believe it? I really can't. Last I remember I was getting my uniform and looking at how I had nothing on it and felt so new.... oh wait I still have nothing on it. But two more weeks and I will! My swearing in ceremony is coming up, we get some things on our uniform and take home our gun. If anyone is in Israel May 26th let me know!
Alright, what has been going on since my last post... a lot. I mentioned that we had got our guns and started shooting? Yeah so we did a lot more of that, different excersises, some fun, some not so fun(hard). I almost left for a medics course last week. They heard that I was a medic in Israel and in America so they assumed that I would love to leave everyone for four months and do a course. At first I was on the list until I told my officer that I didn't want to and he fought for me to get off. Would not have been fun.
Oh almost forgot! Pesach was great! Thanks to friends and relatives, I had a great time, with good food and good company.
The shabbat following Pesach we closed as a plugah (brigade, I think) to do guard duty on the base and other places. So luckily my group got placed on our current base and we were able to stay in our own rooms and shower! Others were not as lucky. The shifts started out okay, I think we were doing 2 hours on active duty, 2 hours as the group ready to go in any incident (have to wear full uniform including boots always) and than 10 hours off. It wasn't really 10 hours off as we are still in basic training. They had us tie all of our equipment together and cover it up protecting from glare and what not. However, 20 or so guys left us on Sunday for different reasons (medic course, kitchen duty, other courses) leaving us with maybe 18 guys to complete the same amount of shifts that 40 people were doing. The shifts changed to 2 hours on active duty, 2 hours on ready, 2 hours off.... this includes all hours of the day. I don't want to complain, but I was never as tired as I was last week. I fell asleep standing up in formation one time. Ha my officer noticed and clapped me awake. Thank G-d b/c I was about to fall. Anyways, it was exciting a few times, I had some suspicious cars try to get into the base and we rejected them. Ten minutes of excitement for about 60 hours or more of guard duty... haha.
We finished the week and got off for shabbat, which I spent in Chaifa at Rachel and Yoni's new apartment! They have a bedroom for me now! So exciting. We barbequed Saturday night and are barbequeing again now for Yom Haaztmaut. We all went on a hike (including Chama and Avi) today through Carmel Park in Chaifa. Was very nice. We saw a lot of cows close up, horses, goats, etc. Kinda weird what they were doing down there b/c cows can't go downhill right?
Going back to Jerusalem tonight and heading back to base for two days and than off again for shabbat! Ask me why we get off so much for shabbat... b/c my unit(Kfir) has no money. So they choose to spend the money they have on days that we can actually work unlike Shabbat. This past Sunday we had a culture day with my unit in Akko. We went to the underground prison there. Afterwards we did something really cool. We visited the druze village of my commander (he is druze in case you didn't get that). He showed us around and took us to the house of a commander who died in the Lebanon war from his village, he said he was his role model. It was cool to see how much they like and respect soldiers there. Look up the religion. They are the best Arabs out there.
Again, if anyone is in Israel May 26th! Let me know, I have to save places. Bye for now!
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