How to play with guns

*FROM 11/23*
Last night we were about to go to bed when we were told that we had to clean the bathrooms…again. They were still extremely gross! Finally though we finished cleaning them for the last time! As we were getting into bed our commander tried to fix our broken heater. However, instead of fixing it, the heater sprayed Kendra, Yael, and I and all of our stuff. SO we went to bed with wet hair, went sleeping bags, and no heat. This morning we woke up freezing at 6 am, cleaned our tent and surrounding area, and had breakfast. Which was surprisingly good. After breakfast we had a base wide ceremony to raise the flag. Then we had class. Our commander taught us how to properly hold a gun, the parts of a gun, the history of M16s, how to load a magazine, and the parts of a bullet. We also played a game to learn how to put together and take a part a gun. Then we played a few games (aka Tag) for exercise. Then we proceeded to stand in line for 40 minutes to get into the dinning hall. (It was ridiculous!). Lunch too was actually pretty decent. However, it wasn’t good enough that it stopped us from buying ice cream, Luckily we had plenty of time still to buy the ice cream b/c we had a little over an hour for lunch. After lunch we cleaned up around the tents again (we did that a lot). Then we had a short lesson on ranks and symbols in the army. When we finished we were given a half hour break. Then we had a lesson with a different commander going over everything we had learned about guns. She also taught us the commands we will need to know for the shooting range tomorrow. Then the head commander led a lesson with both EIE groups going over what we had just learned. After that we did a few activities with our commander and then headed to dinner. Where Noa, Lior, Judy, and D Sol greeted us. Dinner wasn’t good at all. Which in a way was helpful b/c I ate quickly and had enough time to go back to the tent to get a jacket b/c it was freezing out! When we met with our commander after dinner we went into a classroom and sat in circle. We then went around summarizing our feelings on everything we had done so far. Our commander isn’t allowed to laugh in front of us but that didn’t really work well for her (as hard as she tried to cover it up). We also talked about how we were feeling about shooting M16s. Then we met up with a few other units and watched the sergeant be promoted. Then b/c we have been so good these past few days we were given an hour and 40 min off (instead of just an hour). Our heater was still broken at the time so we spent a great amount of time trying to track down a staff member to fix it. But they couldn’t figure it out. Lucky for us thought, Rachel R. eventually did. So we went to bed with a working heater.