Shalom!
That’s 25% of the Hebrew I know. I learned how to say bathroom.
Israel is pretty and not nearly as hot as I’d expected. This tour is way too much for me, though. They make us wake up at the buttcrack of dawn (practically) and then it’s go, go, go until the wee hours of the night. Last night, they didn’t get us home until 1:45.
We went on a water hike (which is like a regular hike except they make you walk through a dirty stream full of sharp rocks and scary looking fish), and our Israeli soldier guide who was walking in front of me slipped and fell onto his GUN. Later, they took us kayaking, and the soldier dropped his gun in the water. We got held up for a really long time while people searched the water for it. That was a good thing for me, though, because my slow-ass boat would have held everyone up if that hadn’t happened. Kayaking is fucking hard, especially when there are endless opportunities to get stuck.
I hope I make it through this trip without dying of exhaustion. I feel like Lindsay Lohan with this greuling schedule. Oh, and I haven’t had any time to listen to Carrie since I’ve been here.
The people on my trip are really nice for the most part. There are 40 of us, ranging from 22-26, although there is one who is 18. There are skinny stray cats all over Israel. It’s really sad. We were going to go to hot springs and a winery today, but they changed the itinerary so we’re instead going on another fucking water hike and listening to a lecture about shit. What a bore!!
Later!
