-my campers overall are pretty good. i'm still trying to figure out how to work with them, because most of the times they don't understand me. they speak to me in hebrew 90% of the time, but often try to help me out and act it out which is helpful. i am getting better at understanding hebrew here though, which i am happy about!
-one day a week (every wednesday) we go to the pool with our kids for the day! it is fun but extremely exhausting - swimming around and playing with the kids in the water takes a lot out of you!
-one night last week we went to Lior's house to have a BBQ and then he taught us to juggle fire (or really, baton twirl with fire) - it was fun, not really as hard as it sounds!
-one night, we also went to this place a few minutes from Arad called "zman midbar" - it was this bedouin tent-esque place on a mountain where this one family lives. they gave us this nice vegetarian dinner and we got to watch the sunset and listen to them play the guitar and sing for us.. very cool!
-two of my 9 year old campers friended me on facebook. crazy!
-because everything is kosher here, they do not put meat on pizza. so they eat tuna on pizza! it's actually really good and we eat it often!
-there are stray cats EVERYWHERE here! it's not as common for people to have them as pets, because they are more often found outside. very different than the US.
-people are pretty good at conserving water here. I really notice it when the kids are washing their hands, they always turn the water off while they are washing.
At the end of the week, on Thursday we left for Eilat! Two of the four weekends we have here we are able to travel, so we went to Eilat this weekend and will go to Tel Aviv in a few weeks. We drove down to Eilat on Thursday night and stayed until Saturday night (because we had to get back for camp today - Sunday). Eilat is like the Cancun/Miami/Wildwood-ish city of Israel in the southernmost part. It was a lot of fun! The 8 of us stayed in this cool villa that Lior told us about. It had a ton of bedrooms, along with common rooms and places to hang out outside and on the roof - all for a great price! We went to the beach during the day and also walked around the promenade area there. It was so hot there - prob at least 110-120 degrees! Also the beaches are really rocky, but it's on the Red Sea, which is really nice and blue. Both Jordan and Egypt are only a couple miles away, so you can CLEARLY see them, which is really cool. There is a big Jordanian flag on the beach in Jordan which is very close and we could see from our villa. We also got to experience some of the nightlife in Eilat, and on Saturday, we went snorkeling and hung out on a boat for the day. There weren't many fish where they took us, but it was nice to just relax on the boat! We also have become obsessed with Israeli frozen yogurt...you get to pick whatever fruits you want to put in it, then they blend it all together kind of like a blizzard. So goood! We had a great weekend, but I definitely missed Arad..it is good to be back now!
Now we are back for the 2nd week in camp. Today was a crazy day.. We did paper mache with the kids (including paint), and I would have to say that my classroom is now probably a different color than it was earlier today from all the paint. I will try to update more often this week!
It just sounds so interesting and fun. we miss you in the USA and the house is very quiet. Keep writing...
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