North Trip

April 23 - 25 was OSP's North trip. On the first day, we did some silly ropes course activities. We split into groups and had to climb things and pick up balls and run the fastest in order to gather the most keys to open a treasure chest, which turned out to have a bottle of champagne in it. In the end, they pulled out 6 more bottles of champagne and everyone had some. This would never fly on Ramah seminar. We then went to the Kibbutz where we were staying for the weekend near Nahariya...it was nice, but is mostly a moshav (less of a socialist community, more just an Israeli village) today. I roomed with Sara and Elli, and we had a beautiful sea view from our window! I went on a nice run with Elli along the sea and read on the beach before we had dinner at the hotel/kibbutz and had free time at the local pub, woohoo.

The next morning we explored the natural caves at Rosh Hanikra. We had to take a cable car (the steepest in the world!) down to the caves. The best part of the visit was the video where a British dude narrated the erotic relationship the sea has with the caves and then we were spritzed with water. After the caves, we went on a hike along one of the upper Galilee streams. Later that night, we boarded the buses headed to a small town called Rosh Pina. After driving for an hour, they realized there wouldn't be anything open there on Saturday night after Shabbat, so we turned around.




On Sunday, we did a pretty hike along the Amud stream that I remembered doing on Seminar. It was really nice out, and not too hot. Along the hike, we played a game where each of us had to tell an embarrassing story if someone put a clothes pin on us. I know you all want to know mine: one time at a party, my friend was tickling me. As soon as it was silent when the music was changing songs I farted really loudly. So....after the hike, we went rafting on the Jordan river! My dad reminded me it was like rafting in a bathtub, but the water was actually much higher than I remembered it being on Seminar. Israel got a lot more rain than usual this year, and there is always more water in the spring than in summer. We had a double date in my raft: Elli and Ben, and me and Moshe. Moshe and I were the rowers while Elli and Ben enjoyed a pleasant ride along the river.