and I don't know if anybody even checks this anymore. But if you are reading this, heres my present life in short. I moved off of the kibbutz where I was living, however, not to Jerusalem as I intended according to my last post. I moved in with my boyfriend in Tel Aviv and having been enjoying life in the big city here. Nothing special going on ( Read more... )

So I began working with a group of soldiers in August during their basic training on my base, and two weeks ago they finished. The next base they move to, where they do their advanced training, is only 10 minutes from my base, but it's sad that I won't officially be with them anymore. I'll occasionally see them, but starting the end of November I ( Read more... )

I know this is belated but I wish everyone a shana tova umetuka! I spent a lovely Rosh Hashana in Jerusalem with my boyfriend and ate plenty of wonderful food. For dinner we were at the house of somebody who is in charge of helping out lone soldiers (people whose parents aren't in Israel) and also we had lunch with Rona and Adi Katz. It was a ( Read more... )

I know I haven't written in a very long time and I'm sorry! I really should have and a lot has been going on. Almost a month ago I got a unit of my own to work with on base. They're about 120 soldiers at the moment, but in another two weeks half of them are leaving to go to a medics course. Anyway, it's really exciting! I got really lucky and ( Read more... )

I'm fine and safe, just to let you all know. The current situation with Lebanon is affecting us all, and we're just waiting by the news to see what happens next. I spent a lovely weekend in Jerusalem with Shoshana and Rabbi Siegel and his family. Tomorrow morning I'll return to my base which is in the south, far from the Lebanese border.

in the army after I returned was a long and pretty boring week. However, I spent the weekend at a friend's kibbutz before she went home to Scotland for her month off. Then, last week, the two of us and almost half of the girls from the course met up at the base where we did the course originally (Wingate) to do a three-day course. After passing ( Read more... )

So I spent a lovely month in Chicago and I have now returned to Israel. After the flight to America I suffered pretty bad jet lag, but returning to Israel wasn't as bad. I arrived on Monday morning, went back to the kibbutz, organized my stuff, saw the kibbutz family, and then went to sleep. Tuesday afternoon I left for the base, and didn't do ( Read more... )

NEWS FLASH- I have a plane ticket for May 21st to arrive back in the states for a month. I want to see everyone so we must be in contact!

Well the course finally ended. Thursday we had the ceremony and Friday morning we were sorted. I am going to instruct guys in basic training with another girl from my course (yay, I'm not going alone!). Already this Sunday we start. On Friday right after we all found out where we were headed, we convened for lunch at Reut's (one of the girls in ( Read more... )

The army let us out for Pesach and I spent seder night in Jerusalem with the Katz family. I remembered last year's seder in Chicago and at the end saying "Next year in Jerusalem." Well there I was, for the first time in my life, actually fulfilling the traditional promise ( Read more... )