Field Day

*FROM 11/22*
This morning we woke up at 6 am. I woke up with 2 cats standing on the floor right across from my head. But luckily Sivan came in the tent to get her stuff out of our bag and scared them away. By 6:20 we had to be outside and completely ready. Then for a little more than an hour we cleaned the bathrooms. Apparently Israeli girls don’t understand the idea of a trashcan, which wasn’t good for us. When we finished we had breakfast. Then we got on the bus to a park. While we were there we learned how to crawl with and without a fun, different hand signs, how to create a vantage point and a lot more. In order to learn all there things ewe played games ☺. We also learned how to paint our faces with mud (I didn’t really enjoy that). The entire day our commander was throwing fake bombs at us and we had 3 seconds to run a way and duck. After all the learning, we had the opportunity within our groups to create a vantage point. When we were done and the head commander and sergeant came to check our vantage point, they thought it would be fun to throw a bomb. Thanks to instinct, Yael and I turn around and ran. However, we didn’t realize until we had landed that in order to run and duck we had jumped on a cliff. After all that we started our Masa (march) back to the base (it wasn’t much fun). When we got back we had a short break and then a lesson with the Sergeant She taught us why we have an I.D.F. and also who is and who isn’t allowed to join (there are few people who aren’t allowed to join). We had to wait for dinner, so we did some exercises. Then we ate. I ate quickly so I had extra time to relax (so I started writing this). Then we had a lesson with the head commander on guns. During break we all decided that “field day” had made us to gross and dirty and that we had to in fact use the gross showers. Then we had a snack that Noa and Hadas brought us, met with our commander, and went to bed.