Thursday night I left Florida for a 28 hour flight to Tel Aviv (yes I did say 28 hours, why you may ask? Well, that's because it was the cheapest ticket I could find). The stops included Copenhagen, Stockholm - which had a 7 hour layover, Istanbul, and then finally, Tel Aviv.
I landed in Tel Aviv on Saturday morning relieved and content for the journey to come, once I got situated in my room, I went out to the beach, holy S*** Tel Aviv has a beautiful beach and about every other girl I saw was stunning as well. After my few hour stroll down the beach I met up with a friend of mine who was waiting for me to arrive to Israel for months now. we had some dinner, smoked some hookah, and toured down Old Jaffa, another beautiful place.
Sunday morning I went to the kibbutz volunteer office in Tel Aviv to get situated in my kibbutz, but that didn't work out as planned, turned out i was a few days late and all of the volunteers in my kibbutz were out on a little vacation for a few days. so instead they put me up in a hostel which I had to pay for sadly but that was cool, I made friends with the guys in the hostel, talked to some girls, went back to the beach and tried out my Hebrew on some girls - which ended up in a catastrophic, turns out my Hebrew is horrible and they just laughed at me like I was a complete idiot, and I don't really blame them for that, my Hebrew skills are about the same as a kindergartner lol! live and learn right?
So, I just have to say this, if you really know me, you know that I am NOT a salad guy, so, with that said, guess what i ate almost every day for every meal this week? You guessed it!! SALAD!!! well, its actually not that bad, I can deal with it, it's definitely healthier than all the crap fast food that I've been eating in america.
Today is now Monday, and my Monday consisted of me walking a few miles from the hostel to the kibbutz office in Tel Aviv because the taxi system is too much, I'm basically broke, and I don't really know the bus system that well, walking to the main bus with 37kgs (about 80Lbs) of luggage to the bus to Afula, getting reamed out by the bus driver for only giving him 7 sheckles instead of 27 sheckles (I'm not that good in Hebrew, and I only heard sheva not esrim ve sheva) getting onto another bus to go to the kibbutz, missing my stop by a couple kilometers or so and having to lug the 37Kgs of luggage a little more than a mile up hill! Great training for the IDF!! I think I already finished my first masa! A masa is a march that all soldiers have to do, they start small, about 2 kilometers or so and grow until the end of training, the length of your last masa - masa kumpta - depends on which unit you're in and i'm going to try to get into an elite one, so, the more training the better.
The kibbutz is beautiful, my room is not, the people are cool, my roommate only speaks Russian, the girls are cute, so far the only conversations I've had were with the old ladies, and the weather is nice, walking around all day with 80Lbs of crap in 80+ Fahrenheit weather is the best. No, but seriously, it is a nice place here, its huge, there is a little outside "gym" so I could workout, a lot of people my age and all of them are cool, food! 3 meals a day! heck yeah! And well that's all I know about it, tomorrow ill get a tour of the place hopefully and they will tell me my job (please don't be kitchen duty).
Thank you all for reading my blog, check in later :)
here are some pictures that I took, a photo of an orthodox watching the sun set in Tel Aviv beach, and a photo of my bed in the kibbutz, more will be coming later.
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