Getting ready for another week.

Well, the first official week here in Israel has ended. It went by faster then I thought it would. Yesterday was Shabbat. Everything in Israel comes to a complete stand-still when it’s Shabbat. Unlike the US, where Saturday is just another day, here in Israel everything stops (including buses, stores and many more things). This left me nothing to do, but swim and hang out with the fellow Garin members.
After walking for a few miles and meeting some nice Bedouins, I got to eat the best homemade pita and chocolate spread ever. After that, it was off to a fun swim, where we fought for the inflatable raft and raced each other.
Then in the afternoon we went on a long hike. We got to learn some of the history of the kibbutz and we also got to play pretend soldiers. Two of our leaders are army soldiers that are helping us learn more about the army. After we walked down the side of a mountain, the two leaders went into an abandoned house, while a third leader told us to wait. We were then told that the two army men were going to be Hamas terrorist, and we needed to infiltrate the house and try to kill them by stealing bottles around the house. The catch was that if they shown a light on us, we were "dead".
After trying unsuccessfully the first time, we eventually crawled, rolled and sneaked to the house and got the bottles. We then made a fire and relaxed.
On the way back home to our caravans, I tripped and fell. I’m the first one to bleed from our Garin.
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Today was more lectures. We met the head of the kibbutz, who told us more about the kibbutz and how it started. We then talked to the head of the Col-Bo (the local store in the kibbutz). We were also given our bank account numbers. This means I can finally buy things here in Israel.
We ended the day with a march around the kibbutz and saw how big this place really is.