Well, they say that it's going to snow AGAIN!

SOOOooo...... it has been quite a busy and interesting week. so after last Monday nights absurdity it decided not to have such a crazy week. Tuesday was just a day, and Wednesday I joined the gym, which is such a nice gym, and some of the Rothberg girls who do this crazy work out invited me to work out with them, it was real intense but it was awesome! Then Thursday was Valentine's day, nothing exciting there during the day, but in the evening me and three friends went out to dinner. So we had chosen this restaurant out of a guide book we had but when we got there is was booked up, so our cab driven suggest we go to this really go place he knows so being as adventurous as we were we said sure. So this crazy cabbie drove us all the way to the Mount of Olives into this neighborhood where all the signs were only in Arabic and to this restaurant in the middle of a cave. We were the only people in the restaurant and it took the 4 guys working there like 20 minutes before they even gave up menus. However, the whole night didn't turn out bad, the food was pretty good and we had ourselves a crazy adventure with a crazy Israeli cab driver. Friday morning, i had to wake up at 5 am to get going for our weekend trip to Mitzpeh Ramon [ a very small city in the desert that sits on the edge of what they call a crater, which is really just an ancient collapsed mountain range, see the picture to understand better]. So we drove for many hours in a bus and stopped a couple of times on the way to do some small walks and to see some of the sights in the desert like Ben Gurion's grave at Sde Boker or the ruins at Ein Ovedat. We were supposed to have done a big hike but because of the rain a few days earlier there was a flash flood warning and we couldn't hike. So we spent Shabbat at the same hostel in Mitzpeh Ramon that I spent my first Shabbat on my birthright trip. All of the Rothberg kids bought cheap wine and alcohol from the store down the street and everyone was really tipsy, it was hilarious. The next morning a few of us woke up early to go watch the sunrise over the crater, it was beautiful!, Take a look at this panoramic photo of it!
Saturday we took a walk around the crater's edge and then got to go play archery golf in the desert [i was awful at it]. Then we drove home from our crazy desert weekend vacation. Yesterday was Ulpan like normal and afterwards, me and some friends went into the Old City to go buy scarves, tapestries, and skirts. We were mightily successful and then we walked from the Old City to Machne Yehuda [the shuk] and did some food shopping. It was really a fun afternoon! So now we have made it all the way to this moment, things are going great, I just recently got in contact with someone from NFTY to try to set up my internship for this semester and Ulpan is ending on Thursday! I'm really excited for classes to start up on Sunday and I am going to visit Doron this weekend, which should be amazing fun. Oh, btw, lots of pretty desert pictures, so just check out my photos website.

I hope everything is going well at home, please people, email me if you want to talk, i would love to stay in contact with the human race outside of this country!

kisses and hugs,
Adra

ps- i'm duck, bo bo bo bo, =)