Monday, February 15, 2010

Friday February 12th---Tsfat weekend

Had to be at the bus at 530 am today... Set my alarm for 415 so I could get up and do my hair butttttttttttttttt I hit off by accident instead of snooze and it didnt go offf again!! I woke up at 508 and jumpeddd out of bed, ran into the shower soooo quickly, got dressed at the speeed of light and ran downstairs... Not a fun morning but I madeee it.

Got to the bus at 535-- pitch black outside! There were sooo many students I was sooo suprised! The whole bus was for Hebrew U students and it was packed! We loaded up the busses and left. i sat with Lauren on the bus. my friends and I all had the back rows and everyone pretty much just passed out. I tried to sleep but I was sooo uncomfortable so I didnt really. But it was a very quiet bus ride. Finally after about 3 hours they woke us up and we were at this random spot in the woods. We met the Tel Aviv Bus and the Ben gurion bus at this rest stop in the woods for breakfast. They unloaded all these oranges, baked goods, chocoalte milk, danishes etc... and we all ate for a while. Saw some tel aviv people I knew, it was nice. Then we got back onto our busses the Hebrew U bus went ATVING first wooooo and the Tel Aviv bus went caving first.

Atving was SOOOO much funnn!!! They had atvs and rangers which are like golf cart ishhhhh things. They were giving everyone who wanted to go atving a special roadtest before we left--- mostly everyone failed, it was really funny. Me, lauren, and sam decided to all share a ranger so the threw of us went rangering. it was sooo much fun--- we went on highways, through the woods, through vineyards it was sooo fun. We sang songs, screamed and yelled. The weather couldnt of been any nicer- the sun was shining and it was really warm out. We took tons and tons of pcitures. First sam drove, then lauren drove then everyone stopepd at this special lookout point where we hung out for a while and took pictures and drank this special tea that they make from herbs and spices. Took tonssss of pictures!!! then I drove on the way back, it was sooo muchfunnn!!! When we got back we had lunch. They brought out tons of cold cuts, pita, hummus, salads, chips, pretzels, vegetables--- ghugeeeeee spreaddd! and we all ate. Then all of a sudden they started unloading cases and cases of alcohol and everyone was doing pre-shabbat lachems at 1 oclock in the afternoon! Everyone was drinking soooo much- they were pouring shots left and right, it was crazyyy and we still had to go caving!! What an afternoon

After lunch and pre shabbat lachems- we switched and the Hebrew U bus went caving and swinging. So basically the bus parked in the most random part of the desert, we got off and hiked a while. Then we got to this gianttttt cave where we were at the top of it, then you go down a million feet and its a huge cave. SO first we went cave swinging-- it was sooo scary!! They connect you to this rope and you swing back and fourth in the air (the cave is like a million feet below you). SOOO scaryyy but sooooooo funnn!! Ill post pictures. We took videos, posted pictures- it was soooo much fun. After we went swinging we hiked allll the way down to the cave and went in the cave. It was reallly dark and scary and you had to crawl through smalll wholes. Sam, Lauren and I went on our own personal cave tour with the tour guide because we swung first so we were finished. So we hiked through the cave and you get to this special spot where they turn off all the flashlights and tell you this story. Then we hiked back. We were soooooo dirty--- ive neevr been covered with more mud in my lifeee soooo grosss!!!

After caving we went back to the bus and tried to clean off but it didnt work. Got onto the bus, and drove 20 minutes to Tsfat. They put boys and girls in different hotels, obviously- religious trip. Our hotel was kinda grossish. One of those religy hotels. Me lauren and sam roomed together. The room had 4 twin beds in it. We showeredd and clean ed offf-- felt sooo good and got dressed for shabbat.

When we went downstairs for services they were doing MORE pre shabbat Lacheims! Everyone was drinking and taking shotsss again!! EVeryone was drunk during services it was crazyyy!!! Boys and girls sat seperatly during services obviously...

After services was a hugeeee shabbat dinner! There were a million long tables. The normal hebrew U people took over one huge table. We had SOOO much fun. They brought like a milllion cases of wine so alll night long we were drinking all this wine. Our table of 12 people finishing 10 bottles of wine that night! The foood was soooo goood, it was such a fun night. We sang, danced, drank. our table was the "routy" table because we were realllly loud and started alll the singing. We had such a great time. After dinner was a huge oenigh with more wine and marzepan-- there was sooo much foood! We did more singing and dancing, it was so fun. We had been up since 5 am so everyone was sooo tired and went to bed at like 10. The 3 of us stayed up talking for a while, I love them we had sooo much funnn!!


Best day sooo far :)

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