well lets just say that if kibbutz life all year round is like the last four days I might want to move here. But they tell me that we are in an unusual wave of cold weather at the moment and so I probably would not want to live here in the summer. But so far its great. Though I wake up at five am to go to work in the kitchen and have seen and touched far too much raw meat for my liking, its the most relaxing part of the trip. We end work in the early afternoon and then we get the rest of the day off to rest or swim or just hang out. And the great weather adds a lot. Also there are some teenagers from a Young Judea program so we have some kids to talk to which is always fun. There are some older kibbutz members who keep telling us to move to Israel but besides that everyone is very nice. The room is fine and we all live in one building. But what's great is that everything is shared. So if I run out of clothes, there's a closet that I can go to to get more. There is a store with fake money - which is actually ironic because you need to pay real money to get fake money- and everything is inexpensive. So far I like it a lot. I hope that it stays this way for the next two weeks.
Other than that today is Yom Hashoa. Its been interesting. Last night our group watched The Pianist which is a very well done movie. We then had a discussion about relatives who were in the Holocaust and how we know feel about the Poland trip. It was different because I am used to the JDS ceremony and speakers and flyers, and the kibbutz doesn't really do anything to commemorate the day except some candles in the dinning hall. There was the country-wide moment of silence, but that's all. I guess I was expecting more. Though we didn't have a chance to watch the Yad Vashem ceremony or see how a city like Tel-Aviv commemorates the day. Maybe its just this kibbutz. Anyway the computers here are not so great so I will stop writing now but I just want to say that I got an email confirming my deposit at Wesleyan University which made me quite happy.
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