So we have exercise classes here usually 3 times a week, which is good because we eat SO MUCH and then sit in class all day, so without these classes we would gain a lot more weight than we are already gaining. Which I guess would be not-so-great in a program that is preparing people for the army.
Anyway, a few interesting things about these classes. A few weeks ago, we had a class where we had to run around in zig-zags (we don't have any exercise facilities, so we have to be creative) and then our counselor would yell things and we had to stop and do them. It started with pretending to shoot a basketball, hit a tennis ball, do a kickboxing kick, and things like that. It moved on to doing push-ups, sit-ups, etc. Finally, we had to crouch and pretend to shoot a gun, and then crawl on the floor and shoot a gun, and then hide behind a bush and shoot a gun. I just remember thinking to myself-if somebody who didn't live here had a movie of us doing this, they would think it was the weirdest and most terrible thing ever. It's really something that could be used against Israel-the whole idea that society thinks about the army so much. There are soldiers everywhere you go in Israel-it's a normal occurence to see them everywhere (very unlike how it is in America).
Today we had a really hard class, composed of basically sprinting for 40 minutes. Another thing that would never have happened in my gym class at home (we wouldn't have done sprinting anyway, but in case we did...)-people started to get really tired and their heads and chests were hurting, and our counselor was just like, "don't worry, a little headache is fine, don't drink any water, work through it, you can all do it!" It just seems like everyone is usually obssessed with hydration (which is a good thing) and it was weird to feel like they already think of us as people who can deal with the pain and work through it, just like these Israelis are going to have to do in the army.
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