Equatorial Expedience

So I only have 13 minutes to write, given that I payed 15 shekels to use the internet at this kiosk in the youth hostel i am currently stationed at in Eilat, the closest I have ever been to the equator. Oh yeah, and its supposed to be 10 shekels. Anyway, I have a lot to write about and not a lot of time to write it. If needed, I will write more later when I can use the internet for free. But this last week we went to Masada, which for those of you who dont know is a huge plateau where a bunch of Jews killed themselves instead of giving in to their Roman attackers. It seems like a failure and that there would be no positive significance to the site, but it was pointed out to me that it is the fact that they lived and died for their freedom, and refused to become slaves to others. So that was pretty inspirational in itself, as was the vast, gorgeous view of the south of Israel. The hike up was challenging, especially at 4 in the morning, but it was still very fun and enjoyable, depsite the harsh climb, which I will have to do again in the sweltering heat in the summer. Afterwards, we left the very nice Masada hostel and continued to our shitty Dead Sea hotel where you could open the doors through the window without needing a key. But the dead sea was fun, floating without effort, and having all my cuts sting like no other. And spreading mud all over my body, that was fun too. And very exfoliating.
After that, we continued to Gadna, which is basically five days of watered down Israeli army basic training. This experience was like no other I have ever had. The physical parts tore up my knees and made my body sore like no other, especially getting 5 hours of sleep and being woken up by the resident dogs on the desert army base. It was tough, but our mephaked (the commander) was amazingly chill and philosophical and our tzevet (our unit) was amazing, and we bonded really well, especially over our hard labors and over our obsession with pokemon, which turned out to be even more hilarious as our commander also like pokemon, as we discovered in the end, where he gave us a parting message and his email address, and his name and age. I only have 2 minutes to write, so I cant update you guys on Z or anything personal like that, but I assure you, theres a lot to talk about regarding that kind of stuff. So next time, in about two days or so, i will give you dear readers a good, complete update. farewell