When in doubt, shake your arse!

Friday's Tequila tasted like bubble gum...that's what you get for 50 shekels! but it did the job everyone got drunk and had a fun night. I only have 3 photos from the start of that night. The third one is a terrible photo, you can't really tell what's going on, so I think the tequila must have been taking effect..

Tequila session #1

Tequila session#2

The gathering of  the kibbutz volunteers in this area, last night was good too! Although it was a bit like being back in school. Organized activities all the time. Would have been nice just to have sat everyone in a room together to chat, preferably with some alcohol to loosen people up a bit. 

We had a talk from one of the kibbutznik, residents of the kibbutz, who had been at Kibbutz Reim since the 60s. She had loads of interesting stories about the changing ideology of the kibbutz and the education system. Up until 1990s children didn't  live with their parents, as there was not the facilities in the kibbutz housing for families to feed, bathe etc their kids. So the children all lived together, ate together, grew together and doing chores was part of their daily lives. I came across this in China a little as the primary kids had to clean their own classrooms. There was no caretaker like in England. We had a walk around the day care centre and the school which now acts a place for informal education. The kids come home from school in the early afternoon and get help with their homework, time to play and such until their parents finish work on the kibbutz at 4:30.

After we split into two teams for some basic drama exercises. I really enjoyed it, which was cool as not so long ago on the spot improvisation would have scared the bejeebers out of me! There was inevitably the get to know people activities like saying your name with action that everyone in the circle then had to copy, that kind of thing.

Next was dinner time, thankfully! We were all starving by this point. We enjoyed food (i think the food at Ein Hashlosha is better) and wine sat and chatted to some new people but inevitably ended up with some people from Ein Hashlosha on the table as we had by far the most volunteers on our kibbutz.  I had Ecuador, Columbia and a load of South Koreans at my table. There was only one other fellow Brit at this gathering! It was interesting

Scaredy cat Cory getting turned down 

comparing kibbutz experiences with different people. I seemed to meet a fair few who worked on a chicken farm.

While everyone was finishing up dinner I headed outside and me and a few of my fellow Hashloshians decide to climb the kids climbing frame in the playground, outside the dining
room. Including Cory who is scared of heights, he was freaking out at the top of a rope ladder. Don't ask me why he joined in, he's American.

The final activity of the evening was Israeli folk dancing followed by a bit of salsa. The folk dancing everyone pretty much got the jist of but when it came to salsa I was getting lost all the time! No need to worry though I just went with what I have learned from the Brazilians. When in doubt just shake your arse and go with the music!