After a beautiful night in the Bedouin tent we were woken up at 4 in the morning to Jason Roth and Sagi Damari, our leaders of the day, playing loud music. In a zombie like fashion, we all went through the motions of getting ready so early in the morning while enjoying the Bedouin’s trademark tea to help wake us up. Although exhausted, at Masada all of us Dillers really pulled through and made it to the top without too many complaints! For people who were experiencing Masada for the first time, like myself, the view was spectacular and watching the sun rise surrounded by friends was indescribable. After shouting out to the world and singing many songs through echo of the barren mountains of Masada, we departed Masada via tram, which was a fun way to make fun of all the other groups hiking down the snake path.
Beautiful Ein Gedi was next on our list and we were more than happy to swim in the cool water. The beautiful refreshing water transformed into an invigorating seaweed fight and Aliza even touched a frog!
With a two hour bus ride ahead, we took the opportunity to sleep, only being waken up to eat lunch and temporarily say goodbye to our Israelis. Desperately needing showers, we all ate lunch quickly enough so that we could get to Givat Haviva early and have time to shower before meeting the 120 other Dillers at the Kennes. A bit overwhelmed by the amount of new people and how tired we were, we stuck together and supported one another. But our day wasn’t over yet! We were then divided into color groups, being mixed with kids from all the other North American Diller groups, and proceeded to ice breakers where we realized the other North Americans aren’t so bad!
When our night circle came around we were all a little too tired to hold any conversations without cracking up but, as usual, we pulled through like champs and finally got to go to sleep! JUST KIDDING! Teen Zulah was up next which was for all the teens to hang out and, not wanting to be anti-social and desperately wanting our laundry done, we all reported to the grass field where we socialized and ate for as long as we could keep our eyes open. Then finally we all reported to our beds and sang the tune of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Looking forward to another great day of Diller,
Meital
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