Today rach and i were supposed to get up at 7:45, but rach slept through the alarm, so she woke up at 8:15, which is the time we were supposed to leave! She woke me up and we got ready in 10 minutes. i even made a big lunch/made breakfast. Rach was going to volunteering today, but i still dont have it because they are out of school for all of sukkot. I ended up getting down there and still having to wait for people. Not many people came today. Only about 20 of us. The people who didnt go get an unexcused absence..i think we only get 3 per 3 months. I was happy because all of the people who are disrespectful didnt come! The tour guide who had the bad group yesterday was leading us today. We first went to a forest/park and he talked to us for a really long time about the war of independence and 2 state solution. It was so hard to pay attention after 30 minutes. Finally we got back onto the bus and drove to a forest where we were going to be cutting low branches from the trees. This needs to be done to help keep the tree alive and because the branches dont allow bushes and life to grow around the tree. When we got to the forest, i really had to pee, so i went in the woods. i like to pee in the woods! except, it wasnt really woods. and the forest is not like a forest back at home.

Doing the forest work was fun! We had a saw (took many pics with it) and working gloves. It was rewarding when the branch started to go down and when you got it off. We did this until we were tired, and then we got back on the bus. I was annoyed because i lost/someone took my water by accident and i was too grossed out to take a water that i knew wasnt mine. Im a little dehydrated. When we got back to the apartment, rach and i had veggies and hummus. I then showered and wrote in my blog. It is such a hastle to do. Instead of sleeping or reading, i write in my blog.

At 2:30 I woke rach up and we went to a meeting to help plan a section 1 party. Someone bought chocolate chip cookies and cake..yum! The meeting dragged on for a little, but we are going to be having this party on october 13 (lori's EIGHTEENTH birthday!!!!) and have speed dating with ridiculous, funny questions.

We then came back, read, took a nap, and woke up to get ready to go out for rachels birthday!!!!!! I cant go into details now because i have to leave for Tzfat for the weekend, but we went to this really good sushi place (note to self: waitress), ate brownies katie made, and then went to ben yehuda. We ended up going to a bar and just dancing (ha rachel) for a long time. Before we left we met some soldiers and it was crazy because one of them told me he was 20, but he looked so much older! He showed me his army ID to prove it..he was born in 1989! We ended up finding out that there was a bus that runs really late, so we got to take it. While waiting for the bus we saw a couple of boys trying to help their friend that was passed out. I hope he was okay. Luckily me and my friends were there because we had water and when the boys tried to lie him down we told them to move him onto his side. The boy had puke oozing out of his mouth. On the bus ride back it was so crowded! We ended up meeting a couple of guys and one of them was really interested in joining Shevet. Im so happy i chose shevet not only because i like it, but a lot of people want to join it--there just isnt room! Have a good Simchat torah!

note to self: chelsea is really good at doing the gilly sorry impression. i think it was this night when we all became hysterical/obsessed with it