Kibbutz

So I'm living now on Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu. The kibbutz is about 5 km away from Beit She'an, a city with Roman runis. My day basically goes like this:
I wake up at 5:00. It's awful and I hate it, but I haven't a choice. I go to work which has so far only been in the kitchen. While in the kitchen I do a lot of work that will never ever help me in any professional field outside of janitorial work. I do a lot of cleaning and moving of vegetables. I sometimes cut vegetables. They like to give me cucumbers or eggplant, but never tomatoes because they're too tricky. I spend a few hours in the kitchen cutting or moving food around and then I go to breakfast. I eat a sizely breakfast here because I'm away for about three hours before I get to eat. After breakfast is more work till around 1 when I get to go to lunch and have the rest of the day to myself. The women who I work with aren't from the kibbutz. Working in the kitchen
isn't highly regarded because it isn't a money making venture so they have to bring in outside help to run the kitchens. So I've met a lot of non-kibbutz people.
With my free time I work out, learn with a guy named Sarel, read, listen to music, and hangout with the other kids on my program. I've developed a whole workout regiment that utilizes my body weight mostly.
I learning about ten new words of Hebrew a day and it's very exciting and challenging for me.
Here as some pictures of the kibbutz.

This the horizon at about 6:20 AM. That mountain in the distance is Jordan.

This is a really cool tree.

This is a playground and not a junkyard.

This is a a cat in a man made pond at the entrance of the Kibbutz.
Marc is in Israel and I will be spending Shabbas with him.