Yotvata update
Time goes by so fast here. I’ve been here on Yotvata for 3 weeks this Sunday and on one hand it feels like ages but on the other it feels like only 1 week. The day by day Yotvata play: Sleep, Eat, Work, Shit, Eat, Nap, Eat, Drink, Go to Bed. It’s the same every day. A lot of volunteers gain a lot of pounds (but everyone else says kilos... silly metric system) during their stay here. It’s times like this I thank you Mom and Dad for my metabolism and the ability to still eat whatever I want. A.K.A: ice cream, chocolate milk, cheese, more ice cream. You get the picture. Yes Yotvata, the most famous dairy kibbutz in Israel, we make all of our dairy products here and export them to everywhere else. People tell me I will be sick of it by the time I go, but I have a feeling I won’t be. I’ve had ice cream every day that I’ve been here and it’s still delicious, in fact it gets better every day. Yesterday an italian ice cream chef from Italy came to our kibbutz to give the kibbutzniks some new tricks of the trade, and let me tell you from a professional first hand taste tester: best ice cream in the entire world.
So love my house and my mates, but we were under invasion by the Ant Queen herself. I would find ants everywhere: kitchen, bathroom, toilet room, bedroom, even in my bed! I laid down ant poison two days ago and I am happy to say that they are almost all gone. Ants in my bed, one of my worst nightmares come true.
I had made plans with Ian, another volunteer, to go to Dahab for his birthday this weekend. Because I still haven’t gotten my passport back from the horrid KPC in Tel Aviv, we had changed our destination and had decided to go to Jerusalem. Now he wants to go back to Dahab because other volunteers are leaving for there the same day, thus I was heated because I still don’t have my passport. HOWEVER two new volunteers joined us yesterday and they came bearing passports! If mine’s in the mix, Dahab Egypt, here I come.
Current Volunteer count: 3 Americans, 4 British, 3 South Africans, 3 Columbians, 4 Swedish, 2 Koreans, 1 German, 1 Canadian, 1 Spanish...
So love my house and my mates, but we were under invasion by the Ant Queen herself. I would find ants everywhere: kitchen, bathroom, toilet room, bedroom, even in my bed! I laid down ant poison two days ago and I am happy to say that they are almost all gone. Ants in my bed, one of my worst nightmares come true.
I had made plans with Ian, another volunteer, to go to Dahab for his birthday this weekend. Because I still haven’t gotten my passport back from the horrid KPC in Tel Aviv, we had changed our destination and had decided to go to Jerusalem. Now he wants to go back to Dahab because other volunteers are leaving for there the same day, thus I was heated because I still don’t have my passport. HOWEVER two new volunteers joined us yesterday and they came bearing passports! If mine’s in the mix, Dahab Egypt, here I come.
Current Volunteer count: 3 Americans, 4 British, 3 South Africans, 3 Columbians, 4 Swedish, 2 Koreans, 1 German, 1 Canadian, 1 Spanish...