My Trip To Israel Part Two (Continuation)

After baggage claim I could not find or identify anyone from out trip so I went to fill up my water and went to the bathroom which was on the side and secluded from the rest of the airport. After a few minutes I decided just to leave and hoping there would be someone with a sign with our group name on it and indeed there were two people. I was the first one out of there to meet up with them. A short time later more and more people began to come out and find us. In total we were about 40 people give or take (People met us there). As we reunited we exited to a special place for the buses to get our Israeli cell phones and to unpack our suitcases into the bus. After we let all of out stuff go we were greeted by one of the staff there. We had some lunch and got our name tags at orientation. We got back on the bus and traveled up north. On the bus I met Yakir, our safety and first aid person.
I thought we would start out at the hotel and rest but I was wrong. We went directly from the airport to some place in the woods where we sat around and stared off of a mountain, in a circle again. I forget what this place was called and it is not listed on the itinerary card that I am currently looking at. Either way, we were in the woods traveling to new places inside. We started in a circle as usual and had some alcohol to drink. The place we went to had many flies and a whole lotta mud. The whole group was forced to step into the mud and all of our shoes became brown and dirty, which sucked. We tried very hard to clean the mud off but it was like a hard clay in layers at the bottoms of our shows. All I remember is moving rocks and planting trees. As we left everyone was in the bathrooms clearing off the mud with water and paper towels. It took me a while to get mine clean and we left the floor a brown and muddy mess. I was nasty and smelled really bad. Some of the mud was carried on to the bus and it stayed there for most of the trip.
I usually sat in the front of the bus with Yakir and then a very cute girl named Marissa sat next to me (;. I opened up to her a little more every time and eventually we became best friends (From my point of view). I liked her more and more. I'll probably go on about that later. Later she moved over one seat, or to the back and a guy named Gary sat next to me despite all my stuff and Chelsea's stuff were taking up space on the seat leaving almost none for anyone. Also two girls named Claudia and Chelsea sat next to me because the back was no longer a good place for them.
After we left that place we went further north to "Arbel lookout" which was a big mountainous area. After we got done we were finally going to the hotel and we got to see what it looks like. We stayed at "Ohalo Manor" which was in the middle of nowhere and not very fancy (At least the rooms we were in)... I got to room with Gordy and Ryan who always were cool and brought the drinks and the girls over to our room [-=. The room wasn't too clean but it was liveable, at least temporarily. The only good part of the hotel were the food and cafeteria. We were there for a few days listening to series of lectures and activities from the Rabbi and staff. I didn't like that place very much at all. At night time we went out to "Big Ben" a bar in Tiberas. People smoked and got "Shitfaced" / hammered/ drunk.etc. One person got very drunk, pissed of some people and eventually got kicked off of the trip (on the first day) I left early to get to bed. The keys at this place were unusual, we only had one key and had to keep asking each other for it. There was also a card on it to control the power of the room which I have never seen before.
The next day we traveled to Tzfat, then we got ready for shabbat. We had some prayer services then and not a lot of free time. They would not let me opt out even though I was falling a sleep and not feeling well at the time. On Saturday night after Shabbat, We went out to Tzfat again for dinner and fun. Sunday we went out jeeping and visited the borders of Lebanon and Jordan. Jeeping was very exciting and fun for everyone. Sunday night we went out to Tel Aviv at Rabin square to go to another bar which I didn't even make it into for more than two minutes. The music was loud, people were drunk, high and very smelly so I got out of there and took a cab with Erica (one of the staff) as soon as I could. We went back to the hotel and I explored and went on to the internet kiosk to see what was going online. We only stayed there for one night but it was the best, more luxurious hotel I have been into. A nice view, edible food, very nice people, clean and in a very good location. It was in walkable distance from the beach.

Part Three Is In The Next Blog