ISRAEL POST! (8 June 2009)

It is always amusing to look back and see what I thought was important to record.

June 8
Joan left so we no longer had two people on breakfast duty. Elizabeth asked me if I would cover breakfast that day, so I did. I listened to music while I cut bread, tomatoes and cucumbers. Listened to Oklahoma and then to Jesus Christ Superstar (very appropriate given the location). We split into two groups for breakfast because we had so many people. I only helped through the first group. (Last time Truman was there they had to split into different eating groups because they didn’t get along.)
Elizabeth taught us “Waltzing Matilda.” We sang “Run, Rabbit” and “Henry VIII.” I got complimented on my singing voice. That was nice.
I don’t remember where Elizabeth took us on our adventure that day.
Went swimming in the Sea of Galilee after lunch. Finn and Collette were there. Nic played whale/shark with Finn. It was fun to watch. Nic got melon with a couple of Kibbutzniks, and then Amber, Lauren, Nic and I talked to them for a while. After that I went back to my room and sat outside and talked with a few people. Another Kibbutznik named Daniel came by and talked to us for a while. He knew the owner of the Pub/ could get it opened for us so we asked him to open it up earlier for us so he said he could get it opened at 9:30.
Dr. Appold gave the evening lecture that day. It was originally going to be outside the dorms, so I went and set up all the chairs. Then the location changed to the roof… because it was cooler there.