well well well..... man has it been a jammed packed week. So here in Jerusalem, not only was Purim 3 days long but it seemed to last a full week. The parties started Tuesday, our study abroad program had a party for us, it was nice, that day I had not yet bought a costume so I to spend the weekend on the beach. We went to wore my overalls and a beater and said I was a farmer. Then the real fun started on Thursday, I went with some other reform-os to HUC for megillah reading which was reform-tastic and actually kind of boring. Then we were rudely told to leave by some woman at HUC when we tired to go to the meal afterwards eventhough we had been invited. So we took a walk and went to dinner at a pasta place that was not kosher and me and zack both got pasta with shrimp and calamari and mussels, it was deliciously satisfying. Then we just walked around center city for a while and watched the craziness that was going on, there were haredei men playing music and dancing in kikar zion and then there was this purim bus with lights all over it going down the street, it was very funny.But I was dressed as a devil with red fishnets, horns, a tail, and a bowtie, I looked very funny! Afterwards, me and zack went to get some waffles at Bebette's, yummy!!! Friday morning, a bunch of my friends and I got a bus and headed down to Tel-Avivnachlat binyamin, the artisan's shuk and we got really yummy israeli breakfast, then we headed down to the beach where we sat all afternoon, it was so beautiful and the water was nice and cold, and there were so many cute little babies to watch playing. Friday night, the Shenker's (my grandparents good friends who live in Tsahalah) came to pick me up and I had shabbat dinner with them and stayed over at their house. Saturday morning they took me for brunch at a place on the tayelet (boardwalk) and we had bacon!! It was a traiftastic meal! (traif means non-kosher). Then I meet up with my friends again on the beach and we sat all day again, just us 3 girls, we had so much fun. Saturday night we came to Jerusalem and I went out to dinner with my roommates and they introduced me to some of their friends, and they mostly spoke Hebrew the whole time so it was fun to try to follow what they were saying and participate in the conversation. Sunday was another fun day, we had no school because of the 3rd day of Purim, I went in the later morning to the Old city, it was easter and Purim, so we wanted to experience all the fanatics doing their thing, it was cool to see what was going on. Also, Aharon, one of Jason's friends invited me to come to his place for a Purim seudah (a festival meal, a big tradition on Purim), so I went. It was all of Aharon and his wife's friends who were 5-10 years older than me and had all made aliyah and been living in Israel for a few years now, I felt very out of place there, also on top of all they, everyone was orthodox, so that added to my discomfort level a little bit, but everyone was very nice and it was nice to be around some Americans that weren't the kids on my program. And now its back to school for a full week.
Check out all the ridiculous costume, Purim, and beach pictures on my web albums!
PS - the crazy colors and fonts are in honor of Purim funness
xoxoxo, Adra
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