Free Day

Today is Yom Sayarot. The day when all the boys who want to can go and tryout for a tryout in one of the elite special forces of Israel. (These units included 669, Matcal, Sheldag and others) by this I mean they get to try out for one day and if they make it, they are invited for the real tryout for the unit they want.
The tryout is comprised of running 2km under a certain time. Pushups and sit-ups, going to sleep. Waking up at a very early hour and then running some more. Throughout the whole thing, the boys sit in their groups and talk about topics picked by their commanders. The topics can be about anything and it is used to see who is the leader of the group, who talks and who doesn’t and who hijacks the conversation.
However, not everyone wants a Sayarot unit, just like me. I want to be a paramedic.
So, since I didn’t go to Yom Sayarot (as well as two other guys) the day was ours for the taking. The girls were given a schedule, since they weren’t going anyway, and the three boys were told that we can do whatever we wanted. I chose to use the day to take care of some much needed work.
I started e day going with my host father to a field to pick palm tree leaves or the roof of the kibbutz sukkah. Together, along with some other kids, we picked over 400 leaves. Once we brought our forest back to the kibbutz, I left to go and take care of driver’s forums in Haifa. The ride was 40 min (one way) and the paper work only took me 5 min to fill out. In Israel, when an Oleyh wants to convert his license, he needs to go to the DMV of Israel and gets a temporary license. With this license, he needs to schedule a driver’s Ed lesson (only one) and you can take the road test and get a full lance.
The Israeli DMV is a very nice building with nice people, unlike the DMV in the states, where no one helps you out and if you’re in the wrong line, you’re in trouble.
Here however there is an information desk when you first walk in and you are told where to go. The whole process was nice and went by painlessly.
From Haifa, I went back on the bus to Afula and took care of some more bank work. I know am finally all done with paperwork (thank G-d).
Tomorrow, the day is still ours, since the guys are still in tryouts. However, since they will be done with their tryout at about 9 in the morning, the whole Garin will go to Mircaz Canada. The Mircaz is like an indoor amusement park with a waterslide, skating ring and also a shooting range downstairs. I’m so excited and I can’t wait to hear from the guys how great was.