KIBBUTZ-DRAMA!!

So, we had a fucked up weekend...
Totally insane and now the english guys been kicked out of the kibbutz. But we are fine, I love all of the voulonteers so much and you can see the strength in the group when things like this happens. It's a long story but we don't wont that kind of peapol here.

/Malin

Pictures from the weekend!

Sophie, Roberta & Maxime waiting for the bus to the volunteer party

Malin & Sophie at the party

Sophie & Maxime drinking fancy beer (Goldstar is expensive hello?!)

Maxime trying to get a ride to Haifa

Malin chillin at the bus stop

Sophie hitchhiking in a gorgeous velour dress

Malin, when we just arrived to the beach

Maxime & Sophie at the beach

Lechaim bitches!

The retarded car that we got a ride with on the way home

Maxime were to lazy to get out of bed, but she wanted a beer anyways

ok, this is the shirt: "I rather be in Amsterdam at Red light district."

Eagle 6.3% motherfucker!

Maxime & Malin (almost) ready for the Chetz

The Chetz - Kibbutz Hazorea

It must have been love but it's over now.

The weekend, without the nasty parts:

• Volunteer party at Ramat Hashofet. Hazorea was the only funny people there, pretty boring. But still... ye, party.
  


• Hitchhike to Haifa. All day on the beach with Maxime and Sophie ( the wife). A great day an we want to have it as a Friday-tradition.
  


• Back to Hazorea and fall asleep. Wake up 11.30 (23.30), start playing drinking games and end up on the Hetz. Our weird local "pub"/"club". The thing is that our computer room is 10 seconds away from the Hetz and I end up in front of the webbcam for.. 6-7 ours.
  


• So, around 9 in the morning i finally deside to sleep. Wake up six ours later and grab a bike with Maxime to go to the Gas Station. We just planed to buy cigarettes but instead we bought some beer and got stuck. A super nice day, just me and Maxime talking about everything and nothing until we got tired and spooned.

You can see, a great weekend! But something horrible happened at Ramat Hashofet. I lost my hat. If you know me you know that the hat is a part of my self. I wore it everyday sins like September last year. So, now I need too find a new hat...

Me and The Hat.

/Malin

Guest blogger: Mahivi!

Mahivi just started to write for a newspaper in Argentina (her home country) about the life in Israel and on kibbutz Hazorea. This is the first draft she sent them, this is the introduction;

"Hello everyone!

My name is Mahivi and I am from Venado, Argentina. Moved by a chronic desire to see the world, I studied right here the career of tourism and an intense curiosity carried me to leave home as soon as I finished studying. Two years already passed in which I collected an already countless number of incredible experiences that, among others things, they have brought me to the place in which I am today: ISRAEL.

Mahivi BaAretz means in Hebrew (official language of Israel), Mahivi in the country of Israel and I decided to start with these stories to share with you not only my experience, but also the mental process that involves in itself to travel, also known as "MIND OPENING".

In the two years that I worked between Buenos Aires and Bariloche, with a short but significant period in Bolivia, I knew people from the entire world.

The youths that assemble their backpacks to jump into to the world, are always interesting people, and though according to their origin the tourists have their resemblances and differences, the Israelis are definelly "thing of another world". So strong were the experiences that I lived with them, so incredible people they are, that this generated in me an "almost need" of visiting Israel.

Israel is a tiny country, smaller than the province of Tucumán and with a population of only seven million. It is found in the Middle East, point in which they converge Europe, Asia and Africa, almost in the middle of the world. Among everything that can be told of this place, Israel is simply unique, its people, its history, its traditions, its situation in general it's not repeated in no another country of the world. Along these stories you are going to understand why is said that Israel has a certain issue about "names", in this case, for example, names with hardly weight in the mind of the people.

Upon communicating my decision of travelling to this country, my friends and family were considerably alarmed, since when one thinks about Israel, or more well in its "media version", it's used to think about war, terrorism, about Hamas, Hezbollah, about the wrong applied term "Zionist", about the Gaza Strip… And yes, all that is real here, but in this small territory this chaos coexists with an infinity of things a thousand times more incredible than the grotesque images that present us in the television. The people forgets that is also here where we find other names with their own weight: Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, the Desert of Judea, Bethlehem, Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee and the Western Wall.Israel is that, a tight accumulation of wonderfull and terrible things, of spiritual and cultural contradictions, of intense past, unstable future and troubled present.

But most of all, is something very, very distant to what the media create in the minds of people that actually barely know something about this place. I invite you then, to discover with me that this country, as well as so many others, cannot be known through prejudices. The magic words are: Why not?, now open your minds and WELCOME TO ISRAEL!!!"

Mahivi Baaretz

To be continued...

Part two, the marriage!

The jewish gay marriage of Malin Cocktorp and Sophie Fletcher is actually getting better and better!

Yesterday evening the three of us gathered outside our room and had a romantic dinner with wine, candles, music and tuna salad. Not to forget the modeling clay that we made very artistic creations from. Malin made a blue heart and a pile of poo-poo, and I made a big black cock. We also wrote some amazing poems to each other. The mood was simply on top. Even though Malin got kinda jealous when she heard that Sophie and me were gonna sleep in the same bed, I think this marriage is gonna last forever (and ever and ever..)!

Let's be optimistic. To be continued!

Malin Kantorp, Sophie Flecther & Liam Cullen

/Maxime

The crazy girl from Mexico and the cigarettes.

Yesterday we had romantic time whit red wine and the candels, the famous candels that I got from Sarah in the middle of the night. I'm not gonna tell you the whole story...
Yes, so romantic night was really cozy! And finally Roberta show her face, she was like.. three ours late. But the funny thing was that she had a pack of cigarettes. It's funny because everybody think that she stoled them. I'm serious, It's the first time in 1,5 month that I seen her whit her OWN cigarettes. That girl is amazing... an artist from Mexico City, a big thinker. We had the best conversation yesterday about how you change here, totaly. And the fact that you newer ever will be able to explane it for someone at home. And it helped me alot beacase I just deside to extand my wistit hear.

Roberta Braun

/Malin

Drama of today!

"My fish Screwface died this morning. It's the third fish that dies on me. First it was Stifler. And then Shitface. I don't understand why I keep killing all my fish...
... But fuck man, I just never have the power to clean the fucking fishbowl." -Maxime

Maxime Halfar & Sophie Fletcher