Work

Kibbutz Tzuba owns and operates a hotel on the premises called Hotel Tzuba.  I clean rooms there.  I work with one of my best friends from the ulpan named Chloe.  She's 18 and French.  Two more girls from our group work with us as well.  Jessie is 28 and from the Caribbean, and Natasha is 25 and from Belarus.  

A typical work day begins at 8. We arrive at the office/storage room for all the linens.  We then sit around on plastic chairs for the next 45 minutes to hour and a half waiting for instructions.  During this period we watch 5 Arab guys and 3 ladies drink coffee and chat.  We chat amongst ourselves and place bets on how many minutes it will be until we're put to work.  At some point a couple of the guys will throw some huge bins of linens through the door and proceed to stand there and watch us fold them.  They usually have some more coffee and a cigarette at this point.  When the boss leaves, the music comes on and the ladies start dancing very seductively.  Eventually they split us into two teams and we clean anywhere from 10 to 15 rooms.  I make about 25 to 35 beds a day and do a lot of sweeping and dusting.  Sometimes I get to clean the bathroom. Woot. It's really exciting when people leave things in the fridge and we get to claim them.  So far we have gotten things like melon, ketchup, sweet and sour sauce, juice, turkey and yogurt.  One problem with our job is that the people we work with are paid by the hour, so the longer they're there, the more they make.  This results in us returning to the office for pointless cigarette and coffee breaks periodically.  Luckily, we get out early every day. So we can't complain.  We laugh a lot at work.  

Pictures:

1st: Kamar (one of our bosses) and me doin' what we do.

2nd: Typical office scene

3rd: Jessie, Me, Chloe

4rd: Playing pinata with a suspended bag of linens and a mop. One of many ways to entertain ourselves while we wait.

5th: Resting