Getting ready for the real thing

Another week has come and gone already.
Surprisingly nothing new happened. The only really fun thing last week was Friday, when we finally did some work. Our job was to go around and paint every wooden thing with turpentine (the paint to protect the wood.) for two hours; we were under the hot sun, painting playgrounds and benches.
Then we had Shabot, which was relaxing as usual. There was a party given by the young kids of the kibbutz to welcome us here.
Ulpan has also been the same. Learning more and more each day.

The exciting thing this week is Gadna. Gadna is army for kids in 11th grade in Israel. It is a chance for them to experience the army before they go. They go through basic things like marching, pretending there is a terrorist attack and shooting. However, for us it is going to be a test drive of what it will be like in three months. Gadna is also a week long. This means that I won’t be writing anything new for the next week since we aren’t allowed to take anything worth of value, such as IPOD, money and laptop.
We will be doing Gadna in the North, to a Golani base.
While we are all excited to go and give it a try, it will be hard.
Since Gadna is for students and young children, a lot will be different then what it’s like in the real army. For instance, we have to sleep 7 hours a day, instead of 6. We will also be served 3 meals a day, like the real army and we will have an hour for ourselves after "training" like in the real army. We will also be wearing real army uniforms and carry around a gun (the only thing is that the Gun doesn’t actually shoot. All the shooting will be done on the 4th day when we get to go to a shooting range.)
I hope it’s everything we want it to be.