the excitment of two weeks

Hi to everyone,

The past two weeks have been pretty exciting. After I returned from my weekend off two weeks ago we had another attack where palestinians shot and injured two jews on sunday and on monday we had rocks thrown at a public bus near our base. We weren't allowed to leave the base and were going out to run more security throughout the jewish settlements around the area and more checkpoints to try and catch the terrorists. It was a week where we didn't sleep much and we on and off the base a lot for false alarms of running checkpoints.

Then this week we moved off of the border to one of our training bases. the whole gadsar unit have 3 months of training. Starting sunday we packed up all of the base. that includes all of the computers and desks and everything. It was a lot of work and took three days to pack everything up. at the same time we were still guarding checkpoints and arresting suspected terrorists at night. which meant not a lot of sleep. On wednesday we moved officially to the training base. we then spent wednesday night setting up the clinic and organizing our medications and medical supplies. I then had to organize my room which had nothing in it when i arrived. that meant searching for a bed mattress and a locker.

Thursday we had a fun day for the whole unit. so all of us soldiers went to a water park. it was pretty fun. they reserved the water park just for us. we had free range of all the slides and pools and it was a lot of fun to just hang out and relax after working so hard on the border guarding and not knowing what might come next.

These next three months are going to be tough even though we are not on the border. We are going to be in the wilderness a lot and there is going to be a lot of intense physical training. I am really excited to see what these next three months bring and to have a chance to bond even more with my friends and the boys that I work with in the clinic.

I hope that everyone is doing well. for those in school, i hope that it is going well. the weather here has been well, I hope that in the US it is nice as well. Keep in touch. I love hearing from you and it means a lot to read your comments.

Love,
Roxanne