update

HI GUYS!!!!!!!

I just spent my last 2 months in training, cause you always have to do chazara. It was a bit different then when i went through basic training and advanced training. This was kinda more of the real thing. Anyways these last 2 weeks which extremely hard and draining and tiring, and my body is just dead. The first of the 2 weeks, is called Tarpal, which stands for Targil Pluga, meaning Platoon drill. Our platoon is about 60-70 guys divided into 3 groups (machlaka would be the word in hebrew). It was from Sunday to Thursday of living in the wilderness with basically no sleep and only eating tuna and on occasion watermelon. Every night we did a bit of hiking with our heavy equipment and then we did a drill in morning and drill at night, during the day it's too hot to train so didn't do anything, but it's also impossible to sleep b/c the sun is literally on top of you and your body is filled with sweat and when you lie down all the leaves and grass and everything sticks to your arms and finding shade wasn't easy. For shabbos we were off and I went to Uncle Mordechai and Aunt Tzipporah which was nice cause it really gave me a recharge for the next week, which they call Shavua Milchama, also called Targad, standing for Targil of the G'dud, our G'dud which is called Nachshon consists of about 250 soldiers divided into 3 groups, 1.Palchod (that's where i am and they're the best) 2. Masayyat 3. Mivtzait... the difference between the 3 is their jobs during War. This week started on Tuesday till Thursday much shorter but much harder cause it's 2 days of actual war conditions (that's why they call it shavua milchama). The first night we literally were hiking all night long for hours and hours with our equipment and then daylight when we arrived we did this 2 hour drill on mountainS I was so so so tired and had trouble giving it my all, the day was more relaxing we were giving some tuna and a lot of cold water and then Wed night we started the hike again which was shorter and easier than first night and then Thurday morning we did a drill taking over a village which we did take over but a lot of people got injured (not for real). Then it wsas over 2 months of training and we had a nice lil TEKes Kravi with good food and tonight I had a wedding of someone in my unit, i think he's a bit crazy for getting married while he's in army but he is a tzaddik. Anyways next week we have a week of being in a nice hotel specially for soldiers on the beach since we just had an insanely hard 2 months and then after that, we go to Gush Etzion to guard the area. There was a bit of Baal Hagan but baruch hashem it all worked out. They had told us that our week of hotel and swimming pool is cancelled and instead of Gush Etzion we are going to some base near Eilat for the next few months and e/o was so upset cause Etzion is one of the more fun places to be in. But baruch Hashem we are not going down there.