This morning we met at the Rayman’s at 9 to leave for a rafting trip on the Jordan River. Emily and Blaine started a game of spoons, which is much like the game “assassin”. Each fellow gets a plastic spoon and a person that they have to “spoon”. You can only “spoon” someone if they don’t have their “spoon” in plain sight. If you “spoon” someone, they are removed from the game. You are assigned their target and the circle of elimination continues. The group is having a lot of fun with the “spooning” concept.
At the Jordan we split into groups and paddled the lazy river. There was a vague sense of Deja Vu among the Americans who all recalled their epic voyages rafting at Ohiopyle in early September. After a lot of falling out and dunking each other, we put on dry clothes and took a ten minute bus ride to the Majraseh for a hike in the water, whose level was often up past our waists. The amount of bees and everyone splashing one another had the group’s panties in a bunch but we finished right on time. We hopped back on the bus for a few minutes to get to a beach for some community service and some very enthusiastic trash cleanup. We filled so many bags!!! It was really important, mostly to the Americans, to give back to a land that is giving something to us as well. Again we got on the bus, this time to our final destination of Dugit Beach, on the eastern side of the Kineret. Our plentiful dinner was kindly prepared and served for us by a committed dinner staff of Israeli chanichim. We had our separate ma’agalim and slept in an open campsite. The end of the day was quite memorable, with everyone piled on top of each other. Some slept well, some didn’t, but the day was fun and the togetherness of collective calm heightened our spirit.
Asher & Orly
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