11 May Sunday

Departure for Egypt.

This morning we woke up way too early to eat eggs, french toast, porridge, grapefruit, honeydew melon, cottage cheese, weird cereal, and not toasted toast - but thats OK because we are going to Egypt. The first stop was Tel Beersheeba, which looks like all of the others. Then we went to the grave site of David Ben-Gurion and the Zin overlook. It was here that I first learned what a wadi is (and hence it will forever stay in my heart).
Then we drove to some anceint caravan city and watched a really cool movie (like all the other really cool movies that we've seen at the national parks here) about the desert people. We climbed around on ancient ruins, played around in temples and tombs - like usual - and thought to ourselve how hot it was (little did we know).
After a quick stay there we drove to Yotvata where we were first introduced to Kibbutzim - although, after half an hour of touring the Kibbutz, they still hadn't answered the question: "What is a Kibbutz" but not to worry, that question would be cleared up in the coming days and weeks.
That night we drove to our Kibbutz, oppened the door, and stared blankly at the scene which lay before us. Dirty floors, no cold water from the tap, bandaids, no bedding, and an all purpose bathroom in which you could shower, shave, relieve yourself, and wash your car all in the same 9ft square room.
That night there was a meeting with the faculty as they instructed us on Egypt and the process by which we recieved the Pearl of Great Price. After that I was so drowsy that I went to bed early and dreamed about bacon and cheese.