Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Hut Time in Israel

Things in sherut leumi are slowly coming together, just in time for succot. I feel like I kind of know what's going on at least half of the time now. :)

My last day at gan made me feel pretty funny after it took me a while to make an almost decent cup of coffee. I must have boiled water four or five times until I found the time to actually pour it into the cup and add coffee and sugar. Or at least I thought it was sugar. Oops. Yeah after I waited enough for my coffee not to burn my tong, I took a sip and tasted something really bad. Haha, I thought my coffee was spoiled for a second before I realized that I probably put salt into my coffee instead of sugar since I've never heard of instant coffee spoiling. Everyone had a good laugh at that one.

Later that night there was a "casino night" for the Tzur Hadassah youth. It lasted a few hours and kids came to play card games, billiard, ping pong, air hockey, backgammon and more. They had fun. Plus there was food. Kids were making "Belgium Waffles" whatever that's called in real English. I was busy doing other stuff, so I didn't even see them. The end of the night I ended up clean up with the Tzur Hadassah youth director, Dalit. Then I drove back to Jerusalem with her and did my laundry there and stuff. Next day she dropped my off at the central bus station and I took a bus south to the moshav Zavdiel where my cousins live. My brother was also there and we spent the first day of succot together. I was tired like crazy the whole time, but I still got to see friends from years ago. We got to catch up a bit.

I'm already back in Tzur Hadassah for the night, but I might be going to Itamar for the day to help my cousins with their farm. They said they have a lot of picking to do tomorrow. Succot here is really exciting. There are lots of parties everywhere and people are all on vacation and traveling around with their lulov and etrog.

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