MESHUGGINA on MASADA

SHALOM FRIENDS,
We would like to apologize that we have not posted for a while as we are having the time of our lives. This post will briefly be covering our time at Masada.   The day started off with a real early wake up.  3 AM was the time we got up and it sucked.  If you know Adam Tarshish, then you know that it takes a lot more then just a nudge for him to awake.  We thought we had to pull out the ol bag of tricks.  But to our surprise, Adam woke up fine and was pretty alert.  After a "great" breakfast, we started our journey up the infamous Masada.  The hike up Masada, to our surprise, was not that grueling, however we did envy those who took the cable car up the mountain. Once we made it up the mountain we got to witness one of the most amazing sunrises we have ever seen. During a part of class we were instructed to go stand on this ledge and repeat some hebrew words our teacher said, and it would echo.  Even though our teacher said "after we say the last word you are not allowed to yell anything else", Adam thought it would be funny to get a group of guys, and yell the word penis. Of course it was loud and echoed but our teacher didn't find it to funny, but all he did was tell us not to yell anything more.   After the  gruling 4 hour on Masada we are delighted to run into our fellow Herzl friends on USY. In a nutshel  climbing Masada was a great expierence and all three of us loved it.  Anyways, Until Next Time.....
Love,
The Three Shmendricks

PENIS

Adam Has his first Magnum Bar 

AFO IMODIUM?????

Shalom Chaverim,
The time has finally arrived, for our first free weekend. We stayed at Avinoam's (Adam's cousin) house. We got out of class and Avi was waiting for us and we were excited to get the HELL out of the HSI campus. Avinoam's was honestly the best way rejuvenate our bodies from the constant boom of HSI. Right as we got to Avi's we ate a crap ton of Israeli Doritos (which are gross compared to USA's) and drank Eilat of the israeli water, Coca-Cola. After all of that we took the biggest nap and watched a bit of the tennis match. We were woken up to Avi's voice, telling us that we need to leave for a twins birthday party.  At the party there were so many different types of food.  On top of all the wonderful dinner, the desert was the best part.  Anat (Avinoam's wife) made some of the best cakes and pastry we have ever had.  As the night was winding down we were shmoosing up a storm with all of the cousins.  But then it hit us.  All three shmendricks came down with the runs.  We don't know what it was from but all we knew was that we all had to take huge shits.  Luckily there were two bathrooms for us to use.  All three of us needed some Imodium ASAP.  We headed back to Avi's at the end of the party exhausted.  It felt really nice to get back to his house with a clean bed, air conditioning, and a nice shower.  The Next day we were woken up around 12:30 by Avi letting us know that lunch was in 30min. Quickly we jumped in the shower trying to be on time to for our lunch. unfortunately Adam took his sweet ass time making us a little late, whatever, its adam and we love him. Lunch was absolutly delicious, at lunch Avi asked if we would like to go to the beach. Even though we just showered we decided to go. The beach was a lot of fun. The Waves were huge as you will see in the video posted. After the beach we headed back to Avi's where we met up with more of Adam's relatives. Then we chilled and headed back to campus. We enjoyed our stay and cannot wait to return on our next free weekend. Until next time.....

Love,
The Three Shmendricks

Is that Bacon or Foreskin?

The past few days were very stressful.  Though our trips have been great, we all had to study for our first unit test.  There is a work hard-party hard philosophy at HSI.  We took the unit test early thursday morning, and everyone was dog tired (from the massive study sesh from the night before).  Finally when the exam was over we headed to the beach.  It was a great way to spend the afternoon after a big test.   At the beach we played a little pick up ultimate Frisbee game.  We hustled the miami kids and got them to play Minnesota verse.  They had a rude awakening to see that we were quite skilled in that area.  After the game we finally got a girl named Talia ( Matt's new girlfriend) to come out into the sea past her belly button. It was a great time at the beach and we were ready to get out of there.  Our next stop was non other then Tel Aviv.  We went there to attend a big party called "White night" which was a big dance party where everyone used headphones. We got to Tel Aviv and we all raced to get our favorite ice coffee from Aroma. After we ate at a burger joint. As we were ordering Adam jokingly asked for a cheeseburger, but to our surprise the guy responded and asked if we wanted bacon with it. We enjoyed our non kosher bacon cheeseburgers in the middle of the holy land.   Following this, we headed to the book store to find cool hebrew books.  Adam went crazy!  I am pretty sure we came out of that store with ten books.  I guess he is turing into his brother Gabe.  When Adam was looking for "The Hunger Games" brett and I were on a mission.  We went straight to the hebrew magazines to find some (interesting reading material).  We got a great magazine about how to save the environment.  The ladies in the mag were very inspirational and we all liked them a lot.  Our night turned out great!  The party was crazy and we got some good pictures of us "getting down".  Alrighty we have to fly, till next time.  We give you love in our best posts.  From our computer to yers.

Love,
The Three Shemendricks

"Yes, I'm a pure blood Jew!"

Today, we arose early at the youth hostel to see the great surprise of some of our USY friends just getting into the great land of Moshe. Shortly after we quickly loaded the busses and were off to study in the land of david and go through the outstanding caves. These caves were very interesting but a little claustrophobic. While in the tunnel our dorm decided to sing a variety of different tunes to pass the time, because the cave took us like one hour to go through due to some traffic of the 100 orthodox girls in front of us who had some issues because they were wearing those gosh darn skirts. Anyways, some kids in particular got a little annoyed with Adams "Cantor like" voice and asked him nicely to refrane from singing, Which just made Adam sing more and more and more and more.... After the long exausting walk though the dark tunnels we got on the bus and were off to the Kotel. We absolutely loved the Kotel, but we are not going to lie it was a little overwhelming, with all the orthodox Alter cockers begging for money while some guy with a beard is putting t'fillin on me and asking me if both of my parents are jewish. After the Kotel we hopped on the bus and headed towards Ben Yehuda street for our first "D.O.T.S (Dinner. On. The. Streets). We ate some delicious shwarma and did a little shopping but then it was time to go. Not to really to much more to say, so until next time......

Love,
The Three Shmendricks

P.S We forgot to mention that in the middle of this mishegoss are madrichim went to the market and made us Market Lunch, which was absolutely delicious.

"Guitos" and Gilboa

As the week came to an end, we went on our first two day trip.  The first activity was hiking up Mt. Gliboa.  It was easy for all the florida kids, especially the "Guitos", to hike up the mountain due to all the mountains in florida, NOT.  The highest they have ever climbed is to the second story of their local mall.  There is really nothing better then the stench of our Israeli staff half way up the mountain.  We finally made it up the mountain and we were happy to rest. We stopped at the peak of the mountain to take some photos.  I hope you like the picture of us taking a leak off the cliff.  That one was our favorite.  After the long trek of climbing the mountain we needed to cool off.  We jumped on the bus and headed to the natural springs to get a swim.  It was great let me tell you, admiring all the israeli women basically wearing a extra small dish rag on their boobs.  There was many different water falls to explore.  It seemed to be a great hang out spot for the arabs.  The mom, grandma, sister, brother, father, uncle, yup, they were all there.  The water was crystal clear and full of small fish.  The Israeli's say "it real good for you, the fish eat all da dead skin from you feet".  Since Adam is scared of fish we heard a few girls cries here and there. Right after the incredible natural water springs it was time for us to pack up and continue our journey to the youth hostile for the night in Jerusalem. Adam and Brett were in one Hostile and Matt was in the other one. In the Hostile, we had the most amazing view from our balcony's, but by the time we realized how beautiful it was we were about to pass out from our long journey that day. Stay tuned for our next great adventure!


Shalom,
The Three Shmendricks

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Hiking in Tel Gazer. 

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