Sun 21.06.

Meeting Sar-El people in the morning at Ben-Gurion airport. Interesting to sit and wait in arrivals hall and guess who else might come to Sar-El. Sign up and line up is such a chaos! Cant belive how people dont realize they have to have three sets of papers, ready and stapled together and wait in line. How hard can it be. Program coordinator Pamela Lazarus had her hands full with papers and disorganised crowd. If arriving groups continue to grow this method will not work for long. Hmm, maybe it is just me, like to keep things strictly in order.

This year my base was medical base near Tel Aviv. Accommodation, showers and tv-room was better than last year's communication base had, but food wasnt so great this time. They dont prepare food in the base anymore, they have catering. Lunch was good though!

Shared my room with four other ladies. Privacy? Dream on!

We arrived just in time for lunch. Then we got our fancy army uniforms. If you think you will find shirt or pants that would fit you perfectly, you are wrong. They are all wrong size! And have everlasting stains or repair patches on them. Pants will propably fall down if you dont find belt to go with them. One lady brought her own uniform, you can buy them online - I was so jealous, her uniform was new, clean and right size.

After that it was unclear what we should do. So we went to work. I had only sandals on me so I could not do anything. I thought I did not need workshoes last year, so why now. Eventually I was putting little string on paper labels. Oh how exciting. It was my bad, cause it says on the Sar-El packing list page: "you have to have closed shoes with you, workshoes, sneakers or whatever". Then it appears we were not suppose to work before safety instructions.

In the evening meeting we had introducings and time tables. After we finished more people arrived. After three hours of sleep and 20 hours long day I was ready for bed!