A period of shitiness

I'd not thought of it before, and it doesn't usually occur to me because of my chilled, "whatever" nature but not everything is so lovely. Especially because i'm in the army, on base the large majority of my time (99% really) there are moments of real shitiness. This past couple of weeks have been a great demonstration of those. Won't go into details but i am very much looking forward to our break-coming up soon.

We really didn't do much in the past couple of weeks. Which also didn't help with the general mood of the group. Been doing shmira (guard duty) non-stop. Moved to our new base for our advanced training. That's good news by the way. So basically been doing guard duty and setting up the new area. We did an amazing job may i say, painted absolutely everything, put up giant tents. But not the most interesting thing to write about.

At least in the past couple of weeks i stepped it up physically, really just want to boast. So...there you go. Running and stuff, that's right!

The past couple of days we did excercies. I have no idea how to translate to english, chulia. Like small groups. It was fun, it was. EXCEPT my negev didn't work at all. I didn't fire at all. So that was excedingly frustrating. I was looking forward to getting rid of some frustration, send it flying though bullets and such. Instead though i lugged around a heavy gun, ran around, rolled around everything. Infact, i impressed myself by doing a 3km run with vest and negev. Less fun halfway though (THIS IS SO LONG AND ANNOYING)

Wednesday night we had our masa sica (our hike for the infantry pin). You don't understand how great it is to finally have that pin. The masa itself was horrifically short. 7km + 1 carrying stretcher. Everyone expected a lot more, at least 10. It just sucks because if our masa sica is only 7 our masa kumpa (end masa for the kumpa(burea)) can't possibly be more than 20. Because everything goes in levels.
 Either way as always the masa was incredible. It's incredible, we get our faces all painted up and this energy gets moved around between the group. Honestly we could do anything with that energy. The masa itself was harder than usual because it was my first with the negev. Luckily or not, because i still don't have my negev vest i couldn't do it with all the bullets therefore 30kg worth of things. I'm not sure if that's good because it means that by the time i do have it all the distances will be longer and i'll be unprepared. It's going to be interesting, that's for sure.

Our Tekes Hashba (swearing in ceremony) was thursday. Meaning practise thursday morning. The ceremony was great. Made 10000% better by having people there for me. In fact i had quite the supportive group. Aviva, Carmit Tal and Rotem (the bar-on clan), Daniel and Michael and even the three girls; Marcy, Yasmeen and Brigitta. Infact the girls gave me the biggest surprise. Thought they wouldn't be able to get it off.



This coming week we are in Jerusalem touring around, likely to be a great time. But best of all, we get of thursday again. A nice short week out of the regular routine. 

I hope for all that the next post is slightly more positive, i'm sure it shall be.

Till next time.

Oh, i did forget to mention, i had a whole massive bunch of interviews. Once on the phone but on the day of the ceremony had one with photos (not so fun...i'm as usual not so photogenic). Then got a call from the girl who's in charge of interviews (not completely sure what her job is), saying it was terrible i'd left already because there was someone else that wanted to interview me. Didn't realise i was so interesting...there you go! :D