I meant to post this the other day but the internet crapped out on me...

I climbed a mountain yesterday.....Well half a mountain. We wanted to see the sunset. It was really beautiful. The sun was bright red against the mountains and you could see everything. It was pretty amazing and surprisingly the colors were better with my sunglasses on than off. So we started our short hike under the impression that it would be a short easy hike. We practically climbed straight up the the mountain....it was really really steep. You're not really afraid of heights until you're on a practically vertical trail up a mountain and it's covered in rubble, and one side is a really really steep drop to the rocky, scary bottom.
Side note: There are a lot of rocks here in the Arava desert.....more rocks than you could possibly imagine. It is really unbelievable. There are rocks and nothing else. So the path on the mountain was covered in little rocks/rubble that made the path slippery cause the rocks were moving under us. Not good.
Side note 2: We are in the Arava desert. Negev means desert in Hebrew so when you say the Negev desert you are actually saying the desert desert. I'm learning Hebrew already.
So I climbed my first mountain of this trip. Yay.
Today we started talking about our volunteering opportunities. There are some really great places for us to work this year. I am really really excited.
In between the learning we've been bonding. Bonding 24/7 for a week in the middle of nowhere