Overshop

Now that Workshop has nearly come to an end, it's time to reflect on the past and look to the future. We are asking ourselves questions like: What did we learn? What did we actually do? Why are there so few picture of Kvutsah 3? Why was such a large portion of our Kupah (cash) spent on Menchies?

As for the future, of course madrichim (parents) and chanichim (children) will inevitably ask us if we would recommend Workshop as a gap year program. So we preemptively made a pro and con table so people can conveniently and objectively weigh the advantages and disadvantages of going on Workshop. (Special thanks to Benjy Friedman for his contributions.)

 As you can see, there is one more pro than con, and since the table was painstakingly designed to apply generally to all kinds of chanichim, clearly going on Workshop is the more advantageous choice. 

Well, we still have the celebratory feast before we each head home with tears in our eyes and five pounds of pork in our stomachs. Then it's back to our families, schools, jobs, and local froyo establishments. But I'll always have a special place in my heart for Kvutsah 3.

THE END


Afterword:
Workshop may be over, but the stories will live forever through the power of internet journalism! Be sure to reread this blog, and share it with your friends, family, and children. On each rereading, you just might learn something about the strength of the Jewish people, and yourself.
- Maxwell Allman    

Workshop gets jobs

That's right folks, our time on the Workshop program is almost out and so is the money in our bank account! To be more precise, our bank account emptied last week, so that's why the Kibbutz elders kindly arranged a job for us at a nearby warehouse, sorting goods into different boxes. Hopefully the money from the warehouse will pull us through till the end, and we won't have to fire our yoga instructor and cancel our deliveries of imported Italian meats. Of course, I snapped a picture of all the hard work and fun! Tevye was complaining about this work not agreeing with our "values", so the Kibbutz elders made him stay back alone to think about his mistake. I guess he doesn't see the "value" in cold hard cash!