This weekend was the perfect weekend. It was my roomie's birthday. She turned 20 and I decorated the room and got her a present and we went out to a nice dinner with her host family and went out dancing at night. Then today we slept till 2 am and hung out with the guys from the garin who were home.
Tomorrow I am headed back to my base and much like the other soldiers in this country, I am outraged by the new law that passed. Till now all soldiers could ride public transportation for free. Now starting this week they are charging soldiers who take the train full price sundays from 6 am - 11 am .
Right, it's not enough we are defending this country, you want us to pay to be tortured. Got it. Assholes. Excuse the language but this tottaly screws up my comfortable nap time. I had a routine down and starting tomorrow I say goodbye to being comfrotable and might have to stand for the journey. We are very bitter.
In any case this course is going by so fast. I am really liking it and think its challenging but a lot of fun. I don't want it to end. Which is a weird thing to say about the Army.
I am missing everyone very badly and wish everyone a great week. Its machine gun week so I am pumped.
Lots of love,
Michali
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
18th post
I am back home to Regba with Gimelim (days off for sickness) since I kept myself up with coughing , dizzyness, shaking and snot. ew.
In any case last night I stayed awake in my adopted family's house and witnessed as my best friend in the entire world took the most amazing important step in her life and got married to the love of her life. I watched it all on a skype cam that connected me an ocean away. She was the most wonderful perfect person I have ever seen. That is not biassed . It broke my heart not to be there but I was so greatful for skype and the way it allowed me to see her place a ring on his hand and look into his eyes.
This event was the hardest for me to miss since I have been here. A thousand times harder then missing my mom my dad my friends my college my cats or my warm bed.
I think this is the first time this move to Israel hit me over the head in such a big way. I am missing out on so much and I have taken for granted so much being in the states so close to everything. Here while laying in bed sick I don't have my mom to make me fake chicken soup or be misrable and watch horror movies with my best friend till we laugh and spit out m&ms . dont have the luxiery of going to a Pilates class. I cant just go and hug my dad. I cant curl up with my cat and cry if I have to.
Here I have to pretend to be tough. and sometimes thats not easy when all you want is to watch youve got mail and veg out on the couch.
Still this is not a complaint this is just a realization that the little things in life make the biggest difference. My new life here is wonderful as well. My adoptive parents gave me a key to their place and told me to come over when ever i wanted watch tv and eat veggie soup they made me.
As for the army. I am finishing my certification on the Rovay this week (M16 , Tavor, Flattop, and MicroTavor) I am really enjoying this course and people in it. The only moral delima came along when we had to learn final Bilistics.
Which is basically which bullet goes through a body at what vilocity and what is most deadly= which we want to use. Where do we want to aim to "stop" a person. *the Israeli army is a humane army and therefore we are not allowed to say kill only stop. or so I have been told.
This lesson was really hard for me. As I stied about the blacktalon bullet which once it hits the body breaksoff into 6 different shards that rip through tissue which is even too dangerous for the dr to remove without damage to him/herself. I thought to myself a year ago I was at Purchase learning about Duchamp and his Fountain.
Things have changed....
I am still morally conflicted about how I feel about knowing this type of information. everyone in my class seemed to be ok with knowing this . I am a vegetarian animal rights pacifist .
and now I will be teaching people how to aim for the right body parts.
sigh.
As for now the fat incompitant idiot russian dr toldme to sleep a lot so I am going to do that.
Best wishes for the most wonderful couple,
Lots of sicky hugs,
Michali
In any case last night I stayed awake in my adopted family's house and witnessed as my best friend in the entire world took the most amazing important step in her life and got married to the love of her life. I watched it all on a skype cam that connected me an ocean away. She was the most wonderful perfect person I have ever seen. That is not biassed . It broke my heart not to be there but I was so greatful for skype and the way it allowed me to see her place a ring on his hand and look into his eyes.
This event was the hardest for me to miss since I have been here. A thousand times harder then missing my mom my dad my friends my college my cats or my warm bed.
I think this is the first time this move to Israel hit me over the head in such a big way. I am missing out on so much and I have taken for granted so much being in the states so close to everything. Here while laying in bed sick I don't have my mom to make me fake chicken soup or be misrable and watch horror movies with my best friend till we laugh and spit out m&ms . dont have the luxiery of going to a Pilates class. I cant just go and hug my dad. I cant curl up with my cat and cry if I have to.
Here I have to pretend to be tough. and sometimes thats not easy when all you want is to watch youve got mail and veg out on the couch.
Still this is not a complaint this is just a realization that the little things in life make the biggest difference. My new life here is wonderful as well. My adoptive parents gave me a key to their place and told me to come over when ever i wanted watch tv and eat veggie soup they made me.
As for the army. I am finishing my certification on the Rovay this week (M16 , Tavor, Flattop, and MicroTavor) I am really enjoying this course and people in it. The only moral delima came along when we had to learn final Bilistics.
Which is basically which bullet goes through a body at what vilocity and what is most deadly= which we want to use. Where do we want to aim to "stop" a person. *the Israeli army is a humane army and therefore we are not allowed to say kill only stop. or so I have been told.
This lesson was really hard for me. As I stied about the blacktalon bullet which once it hits the body breaksoff into 6 different shards that rip through tissue which is even too dangerous for the dr to remove without damage to him/herself. I thought to myself a year ago I was at Purchase learning about Duchamp and his Fountain.
Things have changed....
I am still morally conflicted about how I feel about knowing this type of information. everyone in my class seemed to be ok with knowing this . I am a vegetarian animal rights pacifist .
and now I will be teaching people how to aim for the right body parts.
sigh.
As for now the fat incompitant idiot russian dr toldme to sleep a lot so I am going to do that.
Best wishes for the most wonderful couple,
Lots of sicky hugs,
Michali
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