We settled quickly back into the kibbutz routine on our return from Northern Israel and entered the final straight. With something like only three weeks left and two holidays eating up a few days there really wasn't much time left on kibbutz. Unfortunately the work had increased again and as much as we all loved it, finishing at 7pm was simply too much. There was unfortunately a period of tension in the house, mostly fall out from our frustration with our volunteer leader. We all felt that in working such long hours we should be entitled to far more priviliges and [View Full Entry]

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Right, so where to start. Many of you received my first and only email so far. I can't quite remember where there brought you to chronoligcally, but I'll basically just go from start to finish here anyway. I'll try and maintain this blog throughout the rest of my travels, fingers crossed. So like I said things were slow at first. It is clear that it takes some time to get used to such independence and an absolute NEED for maturity. However, its hard to dwell on that seeing as things have picked up so much. We are now blessed with a [View Full Entry]

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