Yep you read it right, no gardening but dining hall.
Yesterday I had my last day at the carpentry: this was my hapiest day since I arrived in Israel.
Today I started in the dining hall: what a difference.
Now I'm working in airconditioning together with 2 other volunteers: Adam and Roy.
It is really a great job.
Although, there is one catch: It is only for one week.
After that week I will be doing another job, but they are not sure which, propably it is going to be picking the dates in the datesfields: fine by me, as long as I don't have to go back to the carpentry.
Tonight there is another Reggeaparty in the kibbutz, so a good way to celebrate my promotion.
And if our hangover is not too bad tomorrow we are going to see the hot springs nearby.
The volunteertrip for this month is been cancelled because of the war, but instead we are going to a restaurant with the whole bunch: sounds like fun.
Now I'm going to the pool.
C ya
vrijdag, juli 21, 2006
dinsdag, juli 18, 2006
worried american parents and work problems
I have had some moving days the last days.
I'll just start with the beginning.
Gregg had reserved a spot in the gardening a few weaks before he came here.
I had done the same two months before I came, but apparently Tamar: the volunteer leader didn't receive my last E-mails, and that's how I ended up in the carpentry and he in the gardening.
A real pitty for me, a real luck for Gregg.
Anyway, A few days ago Gregg called his parents like they told him to do every week.
On the phone his parents told him They changed his planeticket and he was going home on wednesday.
I couldn't beleive my ears: they just changed his ticket without even asking or discussing it with him!
Ofcourse he was totally pissed(who could blame him).
I mean, if my parents would do that, no way on earth I would come back.
I felt really sad for him, having to leave after a weak is scandalous especially if you know it is perfectly safe in the kibbutz.
Why on earth would the Hezbollah send their rockets to an area with such a low population?
But aparently In Gevah other volunteers are leaving too because they have to from their parents, and yes especially the americans.
But with Gregg having to leave everybody thought I would be taking his place in the gardening, and so did I.
But then Tamar told me I was gonna stay in the carpentry because they didn't need anyone in the gardening but just made an exception because Gregg reserved the spot in advance.
This pissed me totally off And I spilled all my guts to Tamar.
I was even considering changing kibbutz.
Today I went to talk with Tamar, telling her that I was thinking of leaving the kibbutz.
She now said she was gonna talk with the boss of the gardening to see if he could give me a job.
She said I will propably move to the gardening in a matter of days.
So that is absolutely amazing news.
I will be so happy the day I leave the gardening, I got so tyred of that boring work.
Apparently you have to take a stand when you want to reach something here.
the war.
I told you before the rockets of the Hesbollah couldn't reach till here, apparently I and the Israelis where wrong about that.
Theire rockets can reach that far, and they have proven that by hitting Haifa and Tiberias.
Even last sunday a rocket landed close to Afula: This is the nearby city where we do our shoping once and a while, It's about 15 minutes with the bus.
But that rocket was ment to hit an army base between Afula and Haifa.
The rocket hit just an open fieled, so nobody got hurt.
This may seem bad to you, but remember that I'm still very safe here on the kibbutz.
The region here is too low populated to be interesting at all to the Hezbollah.
So not a chance they will try to hit us here: there are just too litle people over here, while the cities are much easier targets.
I'll just start with the beginning.
Gregg had reserved a spot in the gardening a few weaks before he came here.
I had done the same two months before I came, but apparently Tamar: the volunteer leader didn't receive my last E-mails, and that's how I ended up in the carpentry and he in the gardening.
A real pitty for me, a real luck for Gregg.
Anyway, A few days ago Gregg called his parents like they told him to do every week.
On the phone his parents told him They changed his planeticket and he was going home on wednesday.
I couldn't beleive my ears: they just changed his ticket without even asking or discussing it with him!
Ofcourse he was totally pissed(who could blame him).
I mean, if my parents would do that, no way on earth I would come back.
I felt really sad for him, having to leave after a weak is scandalous especially if you know it is perfectly safe in the kibbutz.
Why on earth would the Hezbollah send their rockets to an area with such a low population?
But aparently In Gevah other volunteers are leaving too because they have to from their parents, and yes especially the americans.
But with Gregg having to leave everybody thought I would be taking his place in the gardening, and so did I.
But then Tamar told me I was gonna stay in the carpentry because they didn't need anyone in the gardening but just made an exception because Gregg reserved the spot in advance.
This pissed me totally off And I spilled all my guts to Tamar.
I was even considering changing kibbutz.
Today I went to talk with Tamar, telling her that I was thinking of leaving the kibbutz.
She now said she was gonna talk with the boss of the gardening to see if he could give me a job.
She said I will propably move to the gardening in a matter of days.
So that is absolutely amazing news.
I will be so happy the day I leave the gardening, I got so tyred of that boring work.
Apparently you have to take a stand when you want to reach something here.
the war.
I told you before the rockets of the Hesbollah couldn't reach till here, apparently I and the Israelis where wrong about that.
Theire rockets can reach that far, and they have proven that by hitting Haifa and Tiberias.
Even last sunday a rocket landed close to Afula: This is the nearby city where we do our shoping once and a while, It's about 15 minutes with the bus.
But that rocket was ment to hit an army base between Afula and Haifa.
The rocket hit just an open fieled, so nobody got hurt.
This may seem bad to you, but remember that I'm still very safe here on the kibbutz.
The region here is too low populated to be interesting at all to the Hezbollah.
So not a chance they will try to hit us here: there are just too litle people over here, while the cities are much easier targets.
donderdag, juli 13, 2006
War
I guess you all saw or heard the news about what happened the last 2 days out here.
So I'll explain my position in this.
right now the Israelis are in heavy fights with the people of Hesbollah, just inside of Lebanon.
Many rockets have been launched from the Israelis to Lebanese targets, Also a few rockets have been launched from Lebanon to Israel.
They told me that we are at about 70 km from the Lebanese border, so that isn't really far.
However, the Lebanese rockets can't go that far, not even near.
So don't worry people I am still safe.
We are all ofcourse watching the news to know how it will develop, but I don't worry.
Israel has a very mighty army, so the chance that this war will get to where I am is very, I repeat: very, small.
People around here are pretty worryfree: "Dont worry, we are out of range".
I will keep you updated on this matter as soon something changes according to my safety.
So mom, don't worry, I am safe
Peace out (pretty ironically huh?)
So I'll explain my position in this.
right now the Israelis are in heavy fights with the people of Hesbollah, just inside of Lebanon.
Many rockets have been launched from the Israelis to Lebanese targets, Also a few rockets have been launched from Lebanon to Israel.
They told me that we are at about 70 km from the Lebanese border, so that isn't really far.
However, the Lebanese rockets can't go that far, not even near.
So don't worry people I am still safe.
We are all ofcourse watching the news to know how it will develop, but I don't worry.
Israel has a very mighty army, so the chance that this war will get to where I am is very, I repeat: very, small.
People around here are pretty worryfree: "Dont worry, we are out of range".
I will keep you updated on this matter as soon something changes according to my safety.
So mom, don't worry, I am safe
Peace out (pretty ironically huh?)
dinsdag, juli 11, 2006
James left, Gregg arived
Last sundaymorning James, the volunteer from Manchester, left the kibbutz.
Sad thing, cause I liked that guy pretty much, I'll miss him.
But yesterday Gregg, who was my roommate last year arrived.
It was really great to see him back.
We exchanged some memories, went to the new pub to have a drink, It kinda felt like we travelled trough time to last summer.
I'll remind you readers to it that you can comment on wathever I write on this blog(pretty cool huh),it doesn't even have to do with anything I write.
It feels kinda like I'm just talking to a blanc wall, which isn't really stimulating to keep on writing.
Sad thing, cause I liked that guy pretty much, I'll miss him.
But yesterday Gregg, who was my roommate last year arrived.
It was really great to see him back.
We exchanged some memories, went to the new pub to have a drink, It kinda felt like we travelled trough time to last summer.
I'll remind you readers to it that you can comment on wathever I write on this blog(pretty cool huh),it doesn't even have to do with anything I write.
It feels kinda like I'm just talking to a blanc wall, which isn't really stimulating to keep on writing.
zondag, juli 09, 2006
pictures
allright, I managed to get some pics online! It's only from my first days in Israel though, I hope to get the others online too in the future.
this is where I slept my first night in Tel Aviv: On the roof of a hostel.
This was the view I had from my rooftop. Sweet, Isn't it?
This was taken before the reggeaparty. On the picture you can see most of the volunteers of my kibbutz en some from Gevah, who came for the party.
this is where I slept my first night in Tel Aviv: On the roof of a hostel.
This was the view I had from my rooftop. Sweet, Isn't it?
This was taken before the reggeaparty. On the picture you can see most of the volunteers of my kibbutz en some from Gevah, who came for the party. 
The Latin-Americans dancing salsa during the preparty.
Others smoking and drinking.
That's it for now, I hope I can show you more pictures soon.
maandag, juli 03, 2006
Jeruzalem
what a great weekend this was!
Finally we were with just 4 volunteers of ein harod and 2 from Geva.
But actually, I think that was just right to do wat we wanted to do : "follow James"(insider).
I don't really feel like writing everything we did, what we ate, who we talked to etc.
But I can Tell you Jerusalem is a city like I've never seen before.
We spend the whole night and day in the old city, walked around in the suq's and on top off the wals around the old city.
Jeruzalem is realy totally amazing. It is absolutely beautifull, there is a really strange atmosphere: hard to define.
We actuallly spent most of the time in The arab quarter, we even slept in the arab quarter.
The first evening we arrived in Jerusalem we got lost the first hour in the suq's : what a labyrinth, and pretty creepy at night.
We've been to the wailing wall, couldn't take pictures though since it was shabbat, also a very strange silent atmosphere there.
My impressions of the city are pretty hard to describe in words, but impressed I was.
Cool to see all those religions living together in the same city: one moment you hear the jews singing, a bit later you hear the arab singing from the minnarets and again a bit later you hear the church bells, very surreal, but... real.
A lot less cool to see, when you're on top of the surrounding walls, is the wall between Israel and Palestine in the distance.
I took a shitload of pictures, too bad I can't put them on the internet.
Sorry for my really chaotic report, but hell... Jerusalem is also a chaotic city.
Jerusalem blew my mind!
Finally we were with just 4 volunteers of ein harod and 2 from Geva.
But actually, I think that was just right to do wat we wanted to do : "follow James"(insider).
I don't really feel like writing everything we did, what we ate, who we talked to etc.
But I can Tell you Jerusalem is a city like I've never seen before.
We spend the whole night and day in the old city, walked around in the suq's and on top off the wals around the old city.
Jeruzalem is realy totally amazing. It is absolutely beautifull, there is a really strange atmosphere: hard to define.
We actuallly spent most of the time in The arab quarter, we even slept in the arab quarter.
The first evening we arrived in Jerusalem we got lost the first hour in the suq's : what a labyrinth, and pretty creepy at night.
We've been to the wailing wall, couldn't take pictures though since it was shabbat, also a very strange silent atmosphere there.
My impressions of the city are pretty hard to describe in words, but impressed I was.
Cool to see all those religions living together in the same city: one moment you hear the jews singing, a bit later you hear the arab singing from the minnarets and again a bit later you hear the church bells, very surreal, but... real.
A lot less cool to see, when you're on top of the surrounding walls, is the wall between Israel and Palestine in the distance.
I took a shitload of pictures, too bad I can't put them on the internet.
Sorry for my really chaotic report, but hell... Jerusalem is also a chaotic city.
Jerusalem blew my mind!
Pictures reggae party
My pictures that I took on the reggae party the first friday in the old pub are online.
A guy from the organisers asked for the pictures to put them online.
This is the url : http://psyhost.pic.co .il
I tryed to get my pictures online, but this computer doesn't recognize my camera.
Abonneren op:
Posts (Atom)
