Karmi'el station

I did a shift in the Karmi'el station today. After a quick phone call to Emily for a reminder of the code to get in. I head in and find the previous shift was still sleeping. I found Simon and hung out until it looked like the last shift had gotten up and were out of the volunteers' room. Akko has a volunteers room but usually there is no one sleeping when I get there in the morning.

Simon gave me the low down of the Karmi'el station and he put it this way, there usually isn't a call until the commute starts and then they receive many car accidents throughout the day because of the geographical area that the station covers.

I settled in for a long day of waiting for a call but the good news was there was working tv and one of the Israeli channels, channel 8, is in English with Hebrew and Russian subtitles. Most of the shows were BBC shows. So I got to watch secret millionaire but was confused by them using English pounds, I'm not really sure how much a pound is so I couldn't really gather the magnitude of the millionaires giving. I also watched Brainiac, a "science" show, which was pretty much a show about blowing stuff up and doing other silly things and call it science. I know, I know, this sounds like other "science" shows as well but this one seemed even less serious than the others.

The one call I went on was for a "car accident", when me got to the place we couldn't find the accident. Finally we found the car. It was a finder binder but the one lady wanted to be transported to the hospital and so we did. It is much longer drive to the hospital from Karmi'el than Akko. So it was a lot of time on the road. When I got back to the station I had some time to watch Mexico win the under 17 World Cup in soccer (hopefully that is a spoiler to any soccer fans that haven't watched it yet) and some other show about the FBi taking down the mob in Las Vegas years ago.

Tonight we have meet and greet with a group from Boston at our stations. Sounds like a nice social occasion for the evening and then tomorrow is the first day of the dance festival.

On the bus now from the meet and greet. It was nice to share with others the program I'm enjoying. Hope some of them decide to come back for the program.