Thanksgiving Tiyul

Right now I'm sitting by my window typing and I can hear beautiful piano coming from the apartment next to me. It's nice having free music :) definitely a change from a couple weeks ago when all I could hear in my bathroom from the vent was screaming and fighting in hebrew. That went on for a couple of days. Nobody has any privacy here!Today was an awesome day. We woke up at 7.00 and drove to the Bar Kokhba caves. The Jewish people were planning a revolt against Roman rule, and for five years the word spread and caves were secretly built. In 132 AC, the revolt began and unfortunately the Jewish plan backfired because the Romans trapped them in their own caves for years and food, water, and even air ran out untill they all died. This was also a canabalistic time because many of the jews ate the corpses! Ew. So we climbed through these tiny caves in pitch black, some parts were so small that we had to squirm on our stomachs and push through with our elbows. Good thing Jews are generally small. I came out of the caves with scrapes on my knees and dust clouding my hair. Great time. Then we went on a 2 hour hike and got to a cliff where we repelled down the mountain. It was freakin awesome. Then at night I went to a thanksgiving pot luck dinner. It was actually so adorable about 30 people came and every apartment brought a dish. We went around and said what we were thankful for and a lot of people said " I'm thankful to be celebrating thanksgiving with my new family" :)). We feasted, played backgammon, and then me and my roommates watched Glee. Tomorrow night is prom, otherwise called a goodbye-to-bat yam and the scouts- party. I think I might have strep throat though so I don't know if i'll be able to go.