Sun
This week is supposed to be all guard duty on the base. There are a few places to guard and there are a group of soldiers always ready if anything happens, which means you sleep in uniform and boots and all your equipment is ready in seconds.
But anyways we started off the week doing work for one of the guys on the base. We had to clean the base which was actually kind of relaxing , since they gave me the lawn mower. They gave us 2 hour breaks. Nothing much else today but we worked until 11pm.
Mon
Today they gave some of us kitchen duty, it was not as good this time. There wasn't shnitzel today to eat, so I just ate everything else in the kitchen, but its kind of tiring cleaning the floors every 30 minutes and cleaning the stuff they use to cook and feed 500 people a day. We had to work here until 12am. Ahhh the army life.
Tuesday
From all the kitchen work yesterday my boots got soaked from cleaning dishes. So my feet were wet the whole day. Today our guard duty started. 3 hours per shift. When I was there I kind of wished I was back to kitchen work. Guard duty is very boring and cold. After that they put me on cita coninoot, which means your sleep in uniform and boots, and at 2:30 am they woke us up and we had to get all our equipment on and run to the other side of the base and do a 10 minute practice exercise to see how fast we would respond if it were a real emergency.
Wed
I woke up in the morning and stood up, my toes were killing me, I think I jammed them last night and don't remember how. I couldn't stand on them. Just so happens they are jammed and black and blue.
We also shot rockets on the simulator today as they are too expensive to practice for real. They put me on guard duty again, until late at night
Thursday
Of course after very little sleep and I get woken up at 6am and I have to guard for 3 more hours the morning, I was very tired from not sleeping all week. We had a class on communications today, there are a lot of different radios so we have to learn about them all. I went to the doctor for my foot, and got permission to wear sneakers and not run for now.
Friday
We had the obstacle course practice in the morning,I didnt run since I can't...so I just watched. We than had a class on a certain weapon, (don't worry about it) . Then we had a class on the rules of guard duty for the 3rd time. I thought I could at least relax on base but they gave me guard duty during shabbat dinner time so I had to eat before with a few other people. And I got the worst place to guard, the gun room. Its silent and you guard alone. Soo boring but I guess necessary. After I went to a different pluga to see one of my friends, showered and slept.
Saturday
On base for Shabbat...not like shabbat at home but at least we got food...I went to see my friend at the other part of the base in the 932 brigade. At night we had a 4k run kinda good.. My run is getting much better, which is good.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Week 5,6,7 Tekes and MAG, 1/2/11-1/22/11
1/2-1/8
Sunday
This morning everyone left to the field, I couldn't go, had a appointment to
check something by the doctor. I left to Be'er Shevah to the doctor and got back
5pm that day. I wasn't allowed to eat from the morning until my test by the
doctor. Kinda of hungry. Since I'm stuck on the base instead of the field the
whole week, I moved my bed into the tent with the heater. It's so relaxing in
there. Did absolutlety nothing the rest of the day.
Monday
Woke up late, they gave us 10 hours to sleep, since we can't do anything anyways
all day. I was on the phone, sleeping and eating for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
,most boring days of my life. I thought I was repeating the same day over and
over. On Wednesday the doctor told me I was fine. So I was in bed and I heard
them call my name and told me to be ready with all my equiptment to go on the
Masa( march) that everyone is going on, its 8k (5 Miles) I was happy that I got to do
something.. At the end of this masa we were given covers for our dog tags with the unit name and draft date on it. Wasn't a
hard hike. I had fun. That night we cleaned our guns a lot. Have to dip it in
oil and clean each part separately. Took over an hour and you do this once a
week.
Thursday
Thursday we had a speaker that was a former high commander in Golani., then he
had problems in his life and started doing drugs, now he went crazy, we didn't
know if he was acting in his speech, but he was telling us how it ruined his
life and he went from being something and someone in charge of people to nothing.
He was on the floor outside of a train station sleeping and a cop came up to him
and said "get up you piece of garbage" he looked up and that cop used to be one
of his soldiers.
He said it was one of the worst moments in his life.
One of his soldiers , telling him what to do. Amazing speech.
We also had a 3k run withthe whole plugah, didn't think I can run that much without stopping, but when
you have 180 people behind you and all your commanders you can't stop. Everyone
got their punishments at the end of the week , my whole group got 4 hours added to the
time we go home since we were late to shabbat meal.
Friday
All my guys and I got hours , which means we leave late on friday. Ended up home at 12. I got home and there were a lot of people there . They happen to be sleeping by me. My friend cooked us a lot of food for shabbat. It was pretty good actually.
I went to my friends house friday night got home late and went to sleep.
Sat
Woke up late , ate with everyone again. We didn't really do anything all day .
1/9-1/15
Sun
I got permission to come to base late since my clothes were wet. I put them outside to dry and then it rained!! When I got to base we had a practice for our tekes hashbaah (swearing in ceremony)on Thursday night by the Kotel. Kind of annoying repeating the same thing for hours.
Mon
We started off the day with a class on certain guns ,their purpose and how they work. Then we left to the shooting range where we stayed and shot for 10 hours. Long and cold day.
Tuesday
Shooting all day, my head started hurting so I sat down for a few hours. I took some medicine and I felt fine. I found out we have a masa (march) tonight. I wanted to do it since it was 12km (around 8 miles) So I ended up doing it. It was very hard , they gave me the water to carry, weighs about 30 lbs on your back. The first 6km was all up hill. You can't see anything, people trip left and right and your not allowed to talk. I couldn't feel my legs after the first 6. But everyone still finished the masa. After the masa I showered and got into my tent . My whole body started not feeling well. I started to think that I shouldn't of done the masa if I was not feeling good. I went to sleep hoping I'd be fine the next day.
Wednesday
I woke up my legs were more sore then ever. In the middle on the night my leg muscle also randomly pulled . It was so painful , first time I screamed from pain in a while. In the middle of the day I started feeling really sick. I told them I'm not doing anything the rest of the day. I ended up seeing the doctor around 7pm I had a high fever. I was in the doctor for 4 hours. My parents came to Israel today for the tekes. I went to sleep after taking the 5 medicines the doctor gave me.
Thursday
We went back to Jerusalem this morning together. I got to go home since I was sick. Plus I met my parents by the hotel. I spent time with them then got ready for the ceremony by the kotel. The ceremony started 6 , my parents and some of my friends came. It was an swearing in ceremony. We got our guns and a Tanach. After the ceremony my parents took me and a bunch of my friends from the army and Brooklyn out to dinner to an amazing restaurant. We then left and went back top the hotel to sleep.
Friday
Woke up late ,ate breakfast at the hotel . I went to Machneh Yehudah with my parents. There was so many people there and all I ended up buying was fresh bread . It was amazing. Friday night I went with my parents and Gaboe and Coby and to my dads friend's house. Good meal. We walked back to the hotel later on . We were there for a while. I went to sleep early I was very tired.
Saturday
I was in hotel all day eating and talking to my parents pretty much all day. There wasn't much to do other than that . It was also not nice outside. Cold and cloudy. Before shabbat ended I went to the sauna and steam room in the hotel. They don't have those on my base for some reason so I took advantage. Saturday night I hungout with my friends . Some that came from ny and some from here . I didn't get any sleep until sunday 6am.
1/16-1/22
Sunday
I woke up 7am an hour after I slept and went back to the hotel. I ate breakfast with my parents. The hotels breakfast is really good. We made our way to Tel Aviv around 9am. My father had meetings so my mother and I went to a spa. Hahah I got one of those hot stone massages . Like when you see those advertisements for spas , and there is a person lying there with stones on his back. That was me. Hahah . The massage was one of the best things I've felt in a while. I was still so tired all day from last night. I have to be on base tomorrow morning . We ate dinner and a really good restaurant across the street from the hotel. I said goodbye to my parents and went back to my apartment for the night. They are leaving tomorrow night back to Brooklyn but I wont be able to see them.
Monday
I got to my base and found out we are sleeping in the field this week to learn about our gun and practice with them. I'm mow a Magist in the army, meaning I have to lear how to use FN MAG, a really big and heavy machine gun weighing 30 pounds with bullets. I'm sleeping in a 2 person tent with 3 people, 3 sleeping bags, My M-16, My MAG, 3 Vests and 3 bags full of equipment. You can't move at night, but it is kind of warm.
Tueday
I woke up the next day sore from the position I slept in. We shot with our new guns all day. This gun is so powerful. It's crazy. It very hard to run and crawl with but its a good workout so I'm happy. At night we shot tracing bullets that light up red when you shoot them. We got to shoot all of them together . The sky light up the sky red..
Wed
Finished up shooting for the day. We had a test, run, crawl and shoot a certain amount in under 2 minutes.
Hard test but I passed. By the end of these few days my arms and legs are dead. We got back to the base. I had to sleep with the mag under my head at night , go to the bathroom with it and more, cant leave my side for a minute. It is annoying if you understand how big this thing is.
Thursday
We didn't really do anything on Thursday except have a class on all the wars of israel. We gave our guns back for the weekend. The MAG also. Such a relief. We got to sleep early since we are waking up early tommorow.
Friday
Woke up at 4am, I got home around 9am, went to the supermarket to stock my house with food , army payed for it also.. I got my months worth of laundry done( everytime I do my laundry I put it outside to dry , and it rains on it!!)
Friday night for dinner I went to go eat with Yeshivah of Flatbushs' Chesed Mission trip. I even madea small speech...!! I hungout with friends the rest of the night and went home.
Saturday
I woke up around 1230 , and had lunch with Gabe.. We watched movies until shabbat was over . Its over early so we didn't want to go out, plus its not nice out lately. Back to base tomorrow.
Sunday
This morning everyone left to the field, I couldn't go, had a appointment to
check something by the doctor. I left to Be'er Shevah to the doctor and got back
5pm that day. I wasn't allowed to eat from the morning until my test by the
doctor. Kinda of hungry. Since I'm stuck on the base instead of the field the
whole week, I moved my bed into the tent with the heater. It's so relaxing in
there. Did absolutlety nothing the rest of the day.
Monday
Woke up late, they gave us 10 hours to sleep, since we can't do anything anyways
all day. I was on the phone, sleeping and eating for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
,most boring days of my life. I thought I was repeating the same day over and
over. On Wednesday the doctor told me I was fine. So I was in bed and I heard
them call my name and told me to be ready with all my equiptment to go on the
Masa( march) that everyone is going on, its 8k (5 Miles) I was happy that I got to do
something.. At the end of this masa we were given covers for our dog tags with the unit name and draft date on it. Wasn't a
hard hike. I had fun. That night we cleaned our guns a lot. Have to dip it in
oil and clean each part separately. Took over an hour and you do this once a
week.
Thursday
Thursday we had a speaker that was a former high commander in Golani., then he
had problems in his life and started doing drugs, now he went crazy, we didn't
know if he was acting in his speech, but he was telling us how it ruined his
life and he went from being something and someone in charge of people to nothing.
He was on the floor outside of a train station sleeping and a cop came up to him
and said "get up you piece of garbage" he looked up and that cop used to be one
of his soldiers.
He said it was one of the worst moments in his life.
One of his soldiers , telling him what to do. Amazing speech.
We also had a 3k run withthe whole plugah, didn't think I can run that much without stopping, but when
you have 180 people behind you and all your commanders you can't stop. Everyone
got their punishments at the end of the week , my whole group got 4 hours added to the
time we go home since we were late to shabbat meal.
Friday
All my guys and I got hours , which means we leave late on friday. Ended up home at 12. I got home and there were a lot of people there . They happen to be sleeping by me. My friend cooked us a lot of food for shabbat. It was pretty good actually.
I went to my friends house friday night got home late and went to sleep.
Sat
Woke up late , ate with everyone again. We didn't really do anything all day .
1/9-1/15
Sun
I got permission to come to base late since my clothes were wet. I put them outside to dry and then it rained!! When I got to base we had a practice for our tekes hashbaah (swearing in ceremony)on Thursday night by the Kotel. Kind of annoying repeating the same thing for hours.
Mon
We started off the day with a class on certain guns ,their purpose and how they work. Then we left to the shooting range where we stayed and shot for 10 hours. Long and cold day.
Tuesday
Shooting all day, my head started hurting so I sat down for a few hours. I took some medicine and I felt fine. I found out we have a masa (march) tonight. I wanted to do it since it was 12km (around 8 miles) So I ended up doing it. It was very hard , they gave me the water to carry, weighs about 30 lbs on your back. The first 6km was all up hill. You can't see anything, people trip left and right and your not allowed to talk. I couldn't feel my legs after the first 6. But everyone still finished the masa. After the masa I showered and got into my tent . My whole body started not feeling well. I started to think that I shouldn't of done the masa if I was not feeling good. I went to sleep hoping I'd be fine the next day.
Wednesday
I woke up my legs were more sore then ever. In the middle on the night my leg muscle also randomly pulled . It was so painful , first time I screamed from pain in a while. In the middle of the day I started feeling really sick. I told them I'm not doing anything the rest of the day. I ended up seeing the doctor around 7pm I had a high fever. I was in the doctor for 4 hours. My parents came to Israel today for the tekes. I went to sleep after taking the 5 medicines the doctor gave me.
Thursday
We went back to Jerusalem this morning together. I got to go home since I was sick. Plus I met my parents by the hotel. I spent time with them then got ready for the ceremony by the kotel. The ceremony started 6 , my parents and some of my friends came. It was an swearing in ceremony. We got our guns and a Tanach. After the ceremony my parents took me and a bunch of my friends from the army and Brooklyn out to dinner to an amazing restaurant. We then left and went back top the hotel to sleep.
Friday
Woke up late ,ate breakfast at the hotel . I went to Machneh Yehudah with my parents. There was so many people there and all I ended up buying was fresh bread . It was amazing. Friday night I went with my parents and Gaboe and Coby and to my dads friend's house. Good meal. We walked back to the hotel later on . We were there for a while. I went to sleep early I was very tired.
Saturday
I was in hotel all day eating and talking to my parents pretty much all day. There wasn't much to do other than that . It was also not nice outside. Cold and cloudy. Before shabbat ended I went to the sauna and steam room in the hotel. They don't have those on my base for some reason so I took advantage. Saturday night I hungout with my friends . Some that came from ny and some from here . I didn't get any sleep until sunday 6am.
1/16-1/22
Sunday
I woke up 7am an hour after I slept and went back to the hotel. I ate breakfast with my parents. The hotels breakfast is really good. We made our way to Tel Aviv around 9am. My father had meetings so my mother and I went to a spa. Hahah I got one of those hot stone massages . Like when you see those advertisements for spas , and there is a person lying there with stones on his back. That was me. Hahah . The massage was one of the best things I've felt in a while. I was still so tired all day from last night. I have to be on base tomorrow morning . We ate dinner and a really good restaurant across the street from the hotel. I said goodbye to my parents and went back to my apartment for the night. They are leaving tomorrow night back to Brooklyn but I wont be able to see them.
Monday
I got to my base and found out we are sleeping in the field this week to learn about our gun and practice with them. I'm mow a Magist in the army, meaning I have to lear how to use FN MAG, a really big and heavy machine gun weighing 30 pounds with bullets. I'm sleeping in a 2 person tent with 3 people, 3 sleeping bags, My M-16, My MAG, 3 Vests and 3 bags full of equipment. You can't move at night, but it is kind of warm.
Tueday
I woke up the next day sore from the position I slept in. We shot with our new guns all day. This gun is so powerful. It's crazy. It very hard to run and crawl with but its a good workout so I'm happy. At night we shot tracing bullets that light up red when you shoot them. We got to shoot all of them together . The sky light up the sky red..
Wed
Finished up shooting for the day. We had a test, run, crawl and shoot a certain amount in under 2 minutes.
Hard test but I passed. By the end of these few days my arms and legs are dead. We got back to the base. I had to sleep with the mag under my head at night , go to the bathroom with it and more, cant leave my side for a minute. It is annoying if you understand how big this thing is.
Thursday
We didn't really do anything on Thursday except have a class on all the wars of israel. We gave our guns back for the weekend. The MAG also. Such a relief. We got to sleep early since we are waking up early tommorow.
Friday
Woke up at 4am, I got home around 9am, went to the supermarket to stock my house with food , army payed for it also.. I got my months worth of laundry done( everytime I do my laundry I put it outside to dry , and it rains on it!!)
Friday night for dinner I went to go eat with Yeshivah of Flatbushs' Chesed Mission trip. I even madea small speech...!! I hungout with friends the rest of the night and went home.
Saturday
I woke up around 1230 , and had lunch with Gabe.. We watched movies until shabbat was over . Its over early so we didn't want to go out, plus its not nice out lately. Back to base tomorrow.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Week 4 12/26- 1/1/11
Week 4
Sunday morning we were told to be at the kotel at 1030, not sure for why though. Happens to be we started the day off with a tour of the city of David and a bunch of speeches that I didn't understand. Didn't interest me so much. Plus I never get sleep Saturday night, which I might start doing. After the tour we got on the bus, at 5 they took us to a big theatre room. It happens to be that there is a huge night for the Nahal Brigade
Sunday morning we were told to be at the kotel at 1030, not sure for why though. Happens to be we started the day off with a tour of the city of David and a bunch of speeches that I didn't understand. Didn't interest me so much. Plus I never get sleep Saturday night, which I might start doing. After the tour we got on the bus, at 5 they took us to a big theatre room. It happens to be that there is a huge night for the Nahal Brigade
We walked in there was like almost 1500 people there from Nahal. We were served great food and went to the theater where the head of Nahal was waiting.. We watched movies on the unit, recent training exercises and more. They also gave out trophies for sport day that the commanders held. At the end there was a really good concert by some famous Israeli singer , don't remember his name right now though. It was a fun day overall. We got to base around 12 and did all the work to set up the base for the week as usual.
Monday
Forgot.
Tuesday
We woke up and made our way to the shooting ranges. We shot all day long and learned different positions for shooting and how to put them together. You would think its fun to shoot, but you get sick of it fast. We got back to the base and had a class on grenades, all the different ones and their effects.
Wed
Woke up early on Wednesday and went t to the grenade range. We got their and first they showed us how to throw the grenade properly with rocks for a long time. It was my turn up, I ran to the area, the commander put the grenade in my vest, ran to the place where you throw it and there is another commander waiting for you there. First threw a rock, then a training grenade then the real one.. The explosions on the real one you feel a lot, and its extremely loud. We got back from that around 2 and went to Krav Maga which I love. We did a lot of strength exercise this class but wasn't so hard . We had a class on ballistics and then on one of the anti tank rockets called the LAW.
Thursday
Today our group was picked to do kitchen work.
We started at 6am, thought it would be horrible. We made all the fresh bread, chocolate croissants, fried schnitzel, hamburgers, pasta and more. I don't think I ever ate more in my life. The food was so good and especially fresh. I ended up liking this day, except for the fact we had to clean, making the food and being there until 11pm.
Tuesday
We woke up and made our way to the shooting ranges. We shot all day long and learned different positions for shooting and how to put them together. You would think its fun to shoot, but you get sick of it fast. We got back to the base and had a class on grenades, all the different ones and their effects.
Wed
Woke up early on Wednesday and went t to the grenade range. We got their and first they showed us how to throw the grenade properly with rocks for a long time. It was my turn up, I ran to the area, the commander put the grenade in my vest, ran to the place where you throw it and there is another commander waiting for you there. First threw a rock, then a training grenade then the real one.. The explosions on the real one you feel a lot, and its extremely loud. We got back from that around 2 and went to Krav Maga which I love. We did a lot of strength exercise this class but wasn't so hard . We had a class on ballistics and then on one of the anti tank rockets called the LAW.
Thursday
Today our group was picked to do kitchen work.
We started at 6am, thought it would be horrible. We made all the fresh bread, chocolate croissants, fried schnitzel, hamburgers, pasta and more. I don't think I ever ate more in my life. The food was so good and especially fresh. I ended up liking this day, except for the fact we had to clean, making the food and being there until 11pm.
We finished 11 pm and waited for the commander. He finally came and told us, we have 10 seconds to sleep, and then ok " good morning, how did you sleep?" That meant we have Laylah Lavan (White Night) which means we don't sleep.
The whole night until 7am we connected all of our equipment to certain things so that you can't lose it. "Leshapsher" is the word (it means basically to fix something up and make it good with a rope) whatever anyways it was so tiring, cutting rope, burning it, tying it. My head dropped maybe 50 times, but was an interesting night.
At 7am we started the day like it was normal day.
Friday
At 7am we started the day like it was normal day.
Friday
First had a test on the week’s classes. Then we had group talk like we do every week and then our 3 groups together talk and we try to fix any problems we have. That class was hard to stay awake in. I caught the commander’s heads drop a few times also!
But it was a good day anyway and I was so tired all day. And of course every Shabbat thate we are on base it is raining and our stuff is soaked, bed, bags!
Horrible. But what can you do, and week 4 the heater still doesn't work. Phew.. Ok but overall that was a really good week I think and things just keep on getting better.
New years on base wasn't too interesting they don't really do much here for it on base.
Saturday
Woke at 11 , showered on the other side of the base our showers hot water wasn't working. We had lunch 1230 and we stayed in the tent all day in the rain. So the whole Shabbat all my clothes pillows, beds, everything is wet, but what can you do.
Saturday
Woke at 11 , showered on the other side of the base our showers hot water wasn't working. We had lunch 1230 and we stayed in the tent all day in the rain. So the whole Shabbat all my clothes pillows, beds, everything is wet, but what can you do.
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