It's been a couple of days since I've updated the blog, and it's because three friends of mine and I did a little road trip to Ein Gedi! Ein Gedi is basically in the middle of nowhere next to the dead sea. There is one hospital, one gas station, one tiny cafe, but it was a lot of fun. We left Friday at around 3pm and arrived at 5:30pm. Then we just hung out until 9pm and then went straight to bed. I couldn't keep my eyes open because of the previous night.
And here is the previous night: Thursday night was called "White Night", basically an all night and all morning street party where EVERYONE from Tel Aviv goes out, parties, and all the shops are open. I experience White Night last year and it was such an incredible experience because everyone felt like "one". Anyways, the Ramat Gan station volunteers were instructed to report to the station to help with White Night at 8pm. So, because we are all awesome, arrived at 7:50 eager to be apart of White Night from a different perspective. Unfortunately, it wasn't as glamorous as we had expected. We ended up waiting outside for 2 hours with people running around the station, but no one knew what we were supposed to be doing. I would ask someone "Am I going to be working at tel Aviv?" and then everyone would say "Wait". I think I heard wait probably 100 times within those two hours.
Finally at 10pm we were told what to do. There were two ambulances leaving the station, and there were four of us waiting to go. The three girls went first, and I went with the second ambulance. I thought I was going to Tel Aviv, I was wrong. The first ambulance did go to Tel Aviv and they said it was fun, but my "rig" ended up going to a wedding for an extremely rich Israeli's daughter. Little did I know that we were going to be there from 10:30pm until 5am. It wasn't the most exciting thing at the beginning, but around 2am we were able to go inside the building where the party was taking place. They thought that if we came in with our uniforms earlier, then it would scare the guests. When we came in, I thought we were in a concert. It was the biggest wedding, or even private event, that I have EVER scene. There were five different live famous Israeli pop artists, probably 1,000 guests, bars with so much alcohol it was ridiculous, and a huge dance floor. A very impressive sight. So it ended up being a lot of fun.
Our shift ended at 5am and they almost dropped me off when the driver asked if I could stay on until 7am with a different ambulance to help with the morning shift. Since I was already up, I decided to because I wasn't going to go out to Tel Aviv at 6am. My driver dropped me off at a random street corner and said to wait for the other ambulance here. About 5 minutes later I saw one come and picked me up. There was only a driver in the ambulance and he spoke 0 english. Let me reemphasize, ZERO English. Also, I didn't find this out until later, he didn't know this was my first real shift. We had two calls, both were "lame". One patient felt sick so we went to the house and told the patient that it was probably just a cold and left. The other call, a patient was coughing very hard (pretty nasty) and we transported to the hospital. I finished my shift at 8am. I left for Ein Gedi at 3pm.
No comments:
Post a Comment