Up To Speed

Sorry it's been so long between blogs.  I have many good points and attractive qualities.  Keeping an up to date blog is apparently not one of them.


Looking back over my previous posts, I see that I've left quite a bit off.  I'll give a relatively brief summation:

   -  I switched jobs at the kibbutz from working in the Horsha (wedding garden) to detailing cars.  Upsides and downsides to the change, but it ended up being a much easier job with a lot more down time (finishing at 10:00 or earlier most days, as opposed to 13:00 or later).  It also gave me a bit more of a chance to work on my Hebrew, as not everyone at the Misrad Rechev (Car office) speaks English.

 - My application to join the Army is still going, albeit slowly.  Volunteering is a lengthy process, especially getting a hold of doctors to write notes.  I am confident that I am doing everything I can however, and hope to have some sort of update within the next few months.

 -  I've been helping a Kibbutznik friend of mine with a research project on calves.  I enjoy the manual labour aspect of the work, as well as hearing about the preliminary results.  I'm considering reading a book on Statistics to brush up my knowledge.  It seems a lot more interesting to me now then it was at Guelph.

 -  I've been accepted into a second ulpan at Kibbutz Ein Hashofet, also located in the north of Israel, about half an hour away from Yagur.  I've talked to the manager there and I am excited to get started soon.

 -   I've moved out of Yagur.  I'm sad to leave some good friends, but I'm excited to start a new program elsewhere.  I hope to stay in contact with people, and we'll see how that works out.

 -  I have a couple of projects that I'm thinking about.  One is a board game with a friend from Yagur (we'll see how far we go with that one), and the other is an application for phones that I'm excited to get started on (at the very least it'll give me a chance to work on my programming, always a useful skill).

So that pretty much brings things up to date.  If anyone wants to receive actual, physical letters from me, send me your mailing address and I'll do my damnedest to send at least one a month.  I can personalise those much more than a blog post, and I don't have to worry so much about what I say being posted online.