I did the gibbush for oketz.
Started on tuesday night with filling out medical and personal forms. Filling forms is of course always an incredibly fun activity. Begins with the following: "i need help...."
They divided us into groups, yelled at us a bit, made us change into shirts and hats with numbers on it (I will never forget my number: 8). Following us having to down our meymiahs, put our phones and watches into a bag so we had no record of time whatsover, without brushing our teeth we were put to bed. A pleasant send off to sleep. "TUSU 30 SECONDS TO BE ASLEEP IN YOUR SLEEPING BAGS". tusu by the way, was the most used phrase. Hilariously it means fly.
Girls complained that they couldn't sleep because of the hard ground, and the mass amount of water that we had to drink right before bed. but as usual, i was fairly fine. A great talent i inherited from Dad, the ability to sleep under most any circumstance.
Morning started similar to night, "TUSU 30 SECONDS TO BE IN FULL UNIFORM AND IN A CHET". i was so much so still asleep that my hands were shaking from moving too fast. But then the physical started, and i was very much awake.
All activities of the day were long (tortuously long), nearly vomit inducing, exhausting and well...hard.
physically i did ok i think. I mean, apart from dying a little every time. I came in the first 5 finished 95% of the time. The whole day was done in mud, which was less fun then it could have been. It meant that everytime you ran, you ran with extra (what felt like 100kg) weight on your feet. It was also incredibly slippery, most everyone fell spectacularly as they ran.
The personal interview i did at the end of the day went well. I mean, i'm not sure how great all my responses were, but it was fun. In fact i did krav maga for them. Weird right? But it was fun.
There were 42 girls that went to the gibbush and i think something like 35 that finished. Originally i thought that wasn't too bad, meant i had a pretty good chance of getting in. But these weren't 35 sweet little girls. These were 35 crazy warriors! If i get it or not i'll be ok. I really did give 100% there is no moment that i can look back and say, hmmm i should have pushed that little bit harder. Obviously i wish my hebrew was a little better so i could have given more leadership. But my hebrew is what it is at the moment, and that's just part of me at this moment in time.
physically i did ok i think. I mean, apart from dying a little every time. I came in the first 5 finished 95% of the time. The whole day was done in mud, which was less fun then it could have been. It meant that everytime you ran, you ran with extra (what felt like 100kg) weight on your feet. It was also incredibly slippery, most everyone fell spectacularly as they ran.
The personal interview i did at the end of the day went well. I mean, i'm not sure how great all my responses were, but it was fun. In fact i did krav maga for them. Weird right? But it was fun.
There were 42 girls that went to the gibbush and i think something like 35 that finished. Originally i thought that wasn't too bad, meant i had a pretty good chance of getting in. But these weren't 35 sweet little girls. These were 35 crazy warriors! If i get it or not i'll be ok. I really did give 100% there is no moment that i can look back and say, hmmm i should have pushed that little bit harder. Obviously i wish my hebrew was a little better so i could have given more leadership. But my hebrew is what it is at the moment, and that's just part of me at this moment in time.
Tomorrow what my future is, cross your fingers for me!
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