Cats

On Wednesday, I was "toranit," meaning I cleaned the whole day. Usually, being "toran" is a non-desirable job in the first place, because there are lots of gross dishes and you get pretty tired. But I am pretty sure that nobody is going to be able to fight with me for the rest of the year about who got the worst day to be "toran." I definititely did.

I woke up at 6:30 to start preparing breakfast and the boy who was "toran" with me hadn't woken up yet, so I just started cutting up the salad. I didn't have a watch/the time with me, so I just assumed he would come  at like 6:45 or something, but at 7:15 (which is when breakfast starts), he came running in and we quickly set up the rest of breakfast. That wasn't too bad.

Then I walk out and see two people sweeping up a few broken plates in the corner of the cafeteria. I thought it was weird because I hadn't broken any plates and I hadn't even noticed that there were shards when I walked in that morning. Then somebody points out to me a broken window that we have with blood all over. Our eyes went down a little, and we see bloody paw prints all over the wall, and then all over the floor, and then on the tables, and then on the serving utensils that were left out during the night, and then on the garbage cans. It was disgusting to say the least. It turned out that a cat had gotten in during the night, had broken the plates, freaked out and tried to run around the whole room and escape through the broken window. Now it is stuck in the ceiling and we cannot get it out. Ew.

We moved breakfast outside and spent the morning moving everything in the cafeteria outside and cleaning everything ver very well with some kind of special toilet cleaner. We ended up having lunch outside because it was a beautiful day and the tables and chairs were already outside!

So that was my horror story of the week.

Tomorrow, we are leaving for the rest of Campus Negev, our trip in the southern desert of Israel. We already had a day on Thursday, in which we met with many Bedhoins.

Merry Christmas, and Shabbat Shalom!