In less sombre news April has also featured Passover, a Jewish festival celebrating their liberation from the Egyptians. It also involves not eat any wheat or anything with yeast in it. Most people on the kibbutz in the weeks running up to Passover were clearing all such products from their kitchens. Most of us volunteers not being Jewish a lot of it ended up in our kitchen! When the Cobal does have bread and pasta on sale for the week long festival period, you can imagine the appreciation of some bread and pasta appearing in your kitchen.
On the first day of the Passover celebration the kibbutz had a Passover Seder, which translated into a mass amount of delicious food and wine. I did have to spend two days previous to this working in the kitchen helping them to prepare everything. The one major perk of working in the kitchen, which is getting breakfast every morning, was ignored as there was too much work to do!
I did help cook and then later ate, at the meal, a delicious fish dish that had root ginger and sage in the sauce. Never come across the combination before and I'd definitely like to try experimenting with it when I get back to England.
After a week of weeding I have decided that nothing pleasant grows naturally in the desert. Everything has thorns that can penetrate gloves and give you lots of splinters! Luckily we have moved onto painting everything surrounding the pool: the sun shades, volley ball net etc. Slowly getting closer to the point of actually seeing some water in the thing.
