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

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.

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

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.