Nate's blog

On Thursday (last week) I went to Bet Hashomer and the Lebanese/Israeli border. Now the question that you are asking yourself now is most likely “Nate, why were you near the Lebanese border?” Well, I’ll get to that later.

So, at Bet Hashomer we learned about how the Jews organized groups of guards during the 2nd aliha. We also went out into a grass field and there our male counselor Etan showed us some knife moves that he learned in the army. After he showed us we got to try them out on each other. But for some reason they did not trust us with knifes so we had to use plastic spoons instead.

After that I went to go hiking next to Lebanon. The place that we went to was called Tanur Falls. It was this really nice water fall. Before we want hiking we learned about the border from our female counselor Orly. She taught us about how the border works and about how Hezbollah is the group in charge of the border. (Which explained why there was a Hezbollah flag on the other side)

Being on the border was kind of scary, but I felt safe because not only was our normal guard there but there was also a group of about 10 border soldiers in the area.

On Tuesday(last week) something kind of odd happened during core class. They brought both classes together and told us that we were to do a project about the type of Zionism. What did this project entail you ask. Well we had to make a song, skit, poster, and formal presentation for each type of Zionism. It reminded me of color war a bit.

After core we had our normal classes and then the fun began. From 17:00(5pm) until 23:00(11pm) I worked on the presentation, skit, song, and poster for my group. The Religious Zionism group.

After sleeping for about 9 hours I got up at 8:30(It was now Wednesday) and went out into my room’s outer room. On the wall was a paper that said something like “It is the day to go in the foot steps of the greats, follow where they lead”. So I walked out of the room and on the floor was paper footsteps leading down to the lower moadon, and in the lower moadon was a bagel breakfast that our counselor Orly had prepared for us.

After the breakfast I worked on the project until 2 at which point I went to the bet-kensent to give our presentation. We were the forth group to go, and one of 2 groups using a projector. The first group using the projector was only using it for their skit to show a movie that they had made. That made us the only group planning to use it for our presentation. The key word here is planning. Because when it was time to give the presentation I went to the projector and plugged in my laptop and turned on the presentation mode. And thankfully every thing worked amazing well because my laptop is built really well…..NOT! My laptop is a piece of &*%$ and of course when I plugged in my laptop I found out that the VGA output does not work. So my 5+ hours of work on the presentation were for nothing. But in the end we were fine without and got a 94% on the project, other people got between 92% and 100%.