Thanksgiving.

So, they let us go home after one day on base. What the hell?

I'm hardly complaining- got to attend two thanksgiving dinners. But wait up, let me explain a little about the base and the girls, and well everything.

SO, exactly the same as my very first day at Tel Hashomer (the place where all new enlistment soldiers go-is that how you call them?) A hell of a lot of waiting. I'm talking hours and hours doing absolutely nothing. Really, all that got done that day was a uniform swap and a needle. I think, and i'm not entirely sure, but i believe that they gave us hepatitis A. I  prefer to believe that it's some sort of super cells which cling to our regular cells and thus strengthen all combat soldiers, making the IDF an army full of super human fighters. Let's go with that one!

My new uniform, well it's great to say the least. May be a little big...i was going for the i'm cool and wear baggy pants look. I"ll get them taken up soon enough. Actually i have to, there is SO much leg left tucked up inside it's ridiculous. How tall do they think people are?

The boots i'm sure will be incredibly comfortable...will be are the key words here. Currently, not so, not so at all!

The first day on base was also rather similar to at Michve, basically just getting all the paper work out of the way. Meeting with the Mishaket tash (army social workers), nurse's, all that jazz. On this base, i also met up with a girl who was the hebrew teacher, exactly the same as my old hebrew mefakedet, but without any distance. So, excitingly it appears that i will be getting some more hebrew help, because obviously i need it.

Apart from all the paper work, we did a little tour around base. Oh so fun, you march everywhere. Outside of our little section of base that is, marching around. I'm sure in a very short time i won't think it's so cool..but right now-awesome! Also, the distance between us and the Mefakdot is very different. I mean straight away our temporary mefakedet told us her full name, where she's from, how old she is and why she wanted to be a fighter. Even when we address them we don't say "attention, commander" we say "attention, commander (name)". Which kind of sucks for me because everyone appears to have hard to pronounce names!

Already we did a heap of pushups, she just throws a rock in the air and we have to be on the ground by the time it hits, then do pushups together. Nicely, she does them with us.

On our tour around base we saw a bit of the work out section, and i am so excited. There are ropes to climb, a wall to jump over and heaps of pull up bars. Of course i can't actually do any of those things...but hey. Still exciting!

Tomorrow i'm off to base, which is near Beer Sheva--ugly and massive...not at all like michve! We will definitely be closing the shabbat so i won't be able to update for 2 weeks..and it will be another "eh, what did i even do" updates. Apologies in advance for that.

The thanksgiving dinners.

Alannah's Thanksgiving:

Alannah is a good friend from Michve. She invited us (a bunch of Michve girls) up to her house for dinner which sadly i was not going to be there for, as i was to be on base. Was very exciting to call her Wed arvo when i found out i was not to be closing shabbat and therefore could go. The dinner was delicious..even if a little strange order wise.  Alannah screwed up cooking the chicken a little, and pulled it out undercooked. So we ended up eating the salad, mashed potatoes first, dessert second, and chicken last. Saying that, i'm not complaining at all...it was delicious and hey kept it interesting!

Daniel's Thanksgiving:

I have literally never seen so much food, or drink, in my life. Daniel made a ginormous turkey, potato's and a glutenous Macceroni cheese (I myself helped make that, there was about 1 kilo of cheese and a whole thing of butter in it) But everyone brought a heap of food and alcohol... this picture doesn't do it justice, at all.

Anyway. until next time...when i'll know what to expect from a combat unit! eeeeppp.

Your fighter with red boots,



OH. talked with a mefakedet Oketz, will be talking to her more on sunday. She told me the gibbush will be in a few weeks and that my hebrew is not at all a problem. Literally, she said absolutely not.  Perhaps i'll know more next time!