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.
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