Recap of the weekend

Sorry Im behind... Went on a school trip to the negev this weekend. One of the options for our activity points was to go on an overnight trip to the Negev so a bunch of us signed up. But before I get to that...

Thursday was the last day of Ulpan woooooO!!! We did the speaking portion, all the partners went in one at a time and did their speaking. Of course my partner, David Michael Gabriel FORGOT the whole entire thing so we had to keep starting over, then he finally got itishhh-- close enough so it wouldnt ruin my parts. Then we one at a time did the speaking about the dialogues from our textbooks- we had to be familiar with a dialogue and they asked us questions about it- no biggy, was easy. Then after everyone went- we had a picnic outside. It was really cute. EVeyrone brought lots of food- there was salad, pita, hummus, drinks, desserts, fruit etc... We sat on a blanket, sang songs, took pictures- it was nice. Then we went back inside and took the writing part oof the test. It was actually reallly hard I was sooo suprised!!! I hope I did ok, but it was weird

Came back, slept, did laundry, cleaned, organized, packed etc...

Friday morning had to be at the bus at 6 am. There were 2 busloads of students and all the madrichem went. We drove to the Negev which is the southern part of Israel-- we went to the northern part so it was about 2 hours away. Got off the busses, all the girls went to pee- we're smack in the middle of a desert, where the h are we supposed to be? So we made a human wall or attempted to, it was interesting. Then we went on our 5 hour hike... Not as bad as you think, I know I was worried. There were 2 different groups- each bus was seperated and there were 2 tour guides. We literally stopped every 20 minutes for like between 30 minutes to an hour at a time to hear stories and history about the desert, so it wasnt much of a hike, just baking in the sun. It was fun. I made friends with a bunch of the girls sam is going to Greece with-- they are nice, a little odd but nice. Branched away from the twins ebcause they are sooo annoying and met new people. Going down was pretty easy, just hot. Towards the end we were literally walking on the side of a mountain and it was really scary. We had to climb all these rocks and we were so close to the edge, it was scary. Everyone was kind of scared! once we got back up we took pictures, ate sandwiches for lunch and got back on the bus. We stayed at this hostil in Arad. It was sooo nice!! The twins decided to be obnox as usual so Rosie and I roomed with these 2 girls- Georgia and Talia. They were so so so so sweet- we had a lot of fun with them. Our room was huge- it had one room with 2 sets of bunk beds, then there was a bedroom with 2 double beds, a bathroom and a shower. SOooo nice!! We showered, took nice long naps, and showered for shabbat. Had a nice group shabbat dinner- food was actually ok. Then there was a huge Madrichem activity after dinner. We were divided into 4 teams and we had to come up with a song, a theme, etc... the game had 4 rounds-- the first round we had to make a human machine out of all these props, the next round we were given all these ingredients and had to make the best dish, the next round we had to find puzzle pieces in a pool mof jello and make the puzzle the fastest, the next round we had to redesign a story about balloons. It was really fun and people got really into it. My team came in 2nd place and we got these really good hamentashian! The cooking round was all me--- we were the green team so we got all these green ingredients so we made stuffed peppers, this giant salad, and made our own dressing-- it was actually gross, we mixxed it with our hands but the judges LOVED it and couldnt stop eating it-- we wont that round!! After the activity, we hung out outside for a little then a bunch of people came back to our room and hung out for a while. EVeryone was reallly tired so we went to bed early. Saturday was pretty much a free afternoon-- everything was optional- optional services, optional breakfast, optional hike, optional afternoon activity. Everyone pretty much just sat outside on towels and tanned all day. It was a relaxing afternoon, everyone hung out and tanned together. There was a wiffle ball game going on, basketball. Elli taught us how to play this Israeli childhood game sort of similiar to jacks but not. We bonded a lot with the Madrichem, it was really nice-- found out about their boyfriends, girlfriends. After the long afternoon we packed up, did havdallah as a group outside, had dinner and drove back to school.

It was a relaxing weekend. Nothing tooo much. Definitly not like a Jeff Seidel weekend but it was good.