The Sabbath Approaches

It's been another hot, long day here at Kibbutz Netiv Ha Lamed Hey. Its just a few short days until the main content of Boneh starts. Soon we will be studying:

• Israeli Society
• Israeli History
• Jewish History
• Socialist Zionism
• Cultural Judaisim
• Hebrew
• Hadracha

We don't know exactly what the courses will cover, but once I know, I will be sure to post the details. Personally, I am looking forward to Hebrew as I really like learning languages, but I am sure that they all will end up being quite fun.

Today the children on the Kibbutz invited us to participate in kabbalat shabbat with them. We went to their moadon (literally: club house) where we said the blessings over the wine and challah, ate some of sweetest challah I have ever had, and then played soccer with them. At first, they wanted to play strictly against us, but we refused since they are so young (kindergarden through 6th grade). We played with them for about 30 minutes, and then went to have lunch.

Since then, I have been in our moadon answering some email, working on this blog, fixing my laptop, fixing the other computers, copying music from kara, and hepling other people with their photos. All in all, a good day.