Friday as in 2/8, we had Ulpan! which sucked but we had to have a make-up day because of the snow, we had a test, which I got back already and didn't do too poorly on so that is really good. Friday night was the fun part of the day, my roommate Rachel invited me to her house for dinner, she lives in Gilo, which is the southern most part of the "suburbs" of Jerusalem, it was a very pretty little city on a hill overlooking all of Jerusalem. So before dinner, Rachel informed her parents not to speak to me in English, so the entire night was spoken in Hebrew, and they carried as if I were Israeli and knew exactly what they were saying, I think I missed about 50% of all the conversation but it was an interesting experience anyways.
The food was really good too, Rachel's dad was a great cook. Saturday was also an amazingly fun day, as are most days here in J'lem. I woke up really late and then Zack (yes Barr of brandeis fame) and I took a 2 hour walk all around french hill and then we ended up at this gorgeous park right on the hill of our campus that has all these beautiful winding paths all along the side of the hill and it over looks the Old City and most of J-town. [this is a photo of the view, it was a foggy day and still amazing] Then me and Zack stopped for coffee at Aroma on the way home, just because we love coffee so much, and it was like a children zoo there, and all these really adorable little girls were running around and speaking in Hebrew and it was just one the cutest moments. Later, Saturday evening, I went out with girlfriends to that same Israeli dance class that I went to last week, except this week there were tons more people and the guy taught alot less dances so we were sooooo confused but it was still fun. And this time the class was at the YMCA on King David so we were only a few blocks walk away from Yaffo so we started to walk that way, well we passed this one really sketchy store selling all those touristy goodies and one of my friends wanted to go in, so then we waited for a whole half hour while she bargained with these crazy Israeli guys and ended paying way too much anyways.
Once we got on Yaffo, I met up with some other friends and we went to a bar called Yankee's bar (haha) which surprisingly had no Americans in it and didn't play American music. From there we headed to the Underground which was a dance club and had a great time, all the single girls found these disgusting arsim (Hebrew word for Guido, kind of) to go dance with and then us attached girls just danced around with each other and were crazy, it was for sure a top night. [This is a picture of me and two of my friends at that crazy dance club.] Sunday began with Ulpan as usual, nothing new to report there, then after Ulpan we took a trip to this place called Eretz Bereshit or Genesis Land, where this cute Israeli guy wore a funny looking costume and told us that if we rode his camels we would get taken back in time to meet our forefather Abraham;
and so we did ride the magical gamalim (camels) of time travel and we did meet Abraham who happened to be Australian, did you know that Abraham was Australian? and we ate food in his tent. It was a cute trip and we all had alot of fun riding the gamalim. But there was one particular hilarious moment amongst the camel riding, so there was this one baby gamal that was walking alongside its mama gamal and we went down this one hill and the baby gamal was too scared to go down it so it got stuck at the top so one of the camel guides picked up the baby gamal and carried him down the hill, all the while the little gamal was screaming and it sounded just like E.T but it was so funny and yet also really sad. So now we have reached Monday, oh man, was it a fun Monday, so as all other Mondays begin I had Ulpan, blah, but then when I got home from Ulpan, Doron (from the mishlachat [Israeli group] at my camp this summer) called to say that he was coming to visit me, so then Doron came over and we spent a few hours just hanging out in my room talking like two little girls becuase that how we do. Then Doron went to meet some friends in the city and I went out to dinner with my friend Leah, we went to this really good Italian place called Luigi's (right off of Shamai, fyi Mom and Dad) and then proceeded to try and find this club called Constantine where this Bluegrass band made up of American who had made aliyah were playing. After much walking, we meet up with my roommates Rotem and Rachel and when to the club, it was a great club and the band was pretty awesome, bluegrass is actually really great music, and at the club I ran into two people who used to go to Brandeis so that was really nice too. After the bluegrass we went over to this bar called Layla Bar were they have something called Glory Mondays, where u only ave to play 25NIS to get in and for one drink, plus this bar has recruited like 4 Rothberg students to promote the bar, so EVERYONE was there, it was crazy crowded. Even, my friend Mark from camp and Brandeis who is Tel Aviv this semester was there, so I stayed for a while but it was too crowded to actually be fun so we came home. And here we are at today, I woke up today really tired and in no mood to go to Ulpan becuase one of my Ulpan teachers is a huge bitch, so I stayed home, I ended sleeping until noon so I guess it was a much needed break from Ulpan. I just made pancakes, which was fun, but they don;t taste as good as home here. Ok, i guess that is all for now, but check back soon, i'm sure there will be some more unexpected adventures and crazy times.
xoxo, harbah ahavah [much love]
Adra
PS - jbl, i miss you <3
No comments:
Post a Comment