BBQ

It's raining here right now.  It rained some last night too. This is a very big deal around here.  Even though it doesn't look like a desert where I live, it's still really really dry. The entire state of Israel has serious water shortage problems.  The only naturally fresh water is a few some rivers, which are more like streams, and the sea of galilee, all of which are drying up.  So, great! It's raining!

We had that barbecue last week that I mentioned in the last post.  It was a lot of fun. There was the usual big fire, a grill, food, but then we also has some planned activities/entertainment.  (I think that this whole event was planned to be most entertaining for the staff.) All the boys were given a girl that they either don't always get along with or don't know very well and vise-versa for the girls.  We were told to prepare something to read to them in front of everyone. Something about them, something nice, whatever you wanted really.  Some people's were letters, some poems, some song lyrics, a rap, an original song. Some were funny, some were serious.  So then we also had little group performances. The Brazilian boys, plus one American guy, sang Brazilian songs. A group of boys did a dance and a group of girls did a dance. The dances were very funny.  I posted some videos I took on youtube: Ulpan BBQ Videos

But the most impressive thing, I thought, was that everyone took it seriously. Everyone played along, wrote something or sang and danced.  No one was too cool to just be a little goofy and have fun. It was nice.

(I don't have any pictures without people in them to post with this)