Monday, November 3, 2008

loss of words

I want to say furious, just because that implies how mad I really am. I'm not really that heated though. I'll say perturbed. I'm extremely perturbed at the way my trip went today. Today was a 12 hour trip called "Riding for the Fighters". We were told we would bike around the Golan Heights and visit various battle sites, such as where the Yom Kippur war took place. Although it was a twelve hour trip, we were told that we wouldn't be riding bikes for that long........... We spent ten hours on the bus, and 15 minutes bike riding. I wish I were kidding. I had to get up at 6:30 so we could drive 3 hours to listen to a 10 minute shpiel. Then we drove another two hours where we got to the biking portion. I have no idea why we rode bikes. We went down a rocky path, and looped back around. I'm pretty sure the historical significance meter of the trek was at zero. If there was any, I wasn't informed. Then we drove 30 minutes to a huge gathering of other programs to watch tanks shoot bullets and blanks. Pretty exciting for a grand total of seven minutes. Then we hopped back in the bus and drove back home. Four more hours. I'm so disgusted. I'm pretty sick as well, and could have easily missed it. I thought it was going to be really powerful and educational. I'm really pissed I went. There's a trip tomorrow in Tel-Aviv that I signed up for, but now I need to bow out because I have to see a doctor and likely stay in the apartment all day.
Bummer

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