Ants and Bracha

Shalom to all.
Been quite a busy week.
Last Sunday was a normal day and in the evening Jason and I went out to dinner with our friend Shira, who made aliyah a few years ago and goes to Hebrew U. (She also happens to be Jason's ex girlfriend, but I like her a lot so it doesn't bother me). Then on Monday, I can't remember what we did so it must not have been that important. I think we rented There Will Be Blood, it wasn't very good. Tuesday was fun because Jason came into the office in the morning because he had a meeting near by and wanted to meet everyone I work with and see my office. While in my office Jason met one of the people doing Career Israel right now who coincidently is going to Brandeis to be a NEJS (Judaic Studies) grad student next year, the boys got to talking and now they are going to try and find an apartment together for school next year. That night we went on a double date with my roommate Rachel and her boyfriend Yoni. It was fun, and kind of awkward but that made it even more funny. After dinner, our friend Eli came over and we baked challah, we baked challah until 2 in the morning because we started really late and didn't know how to use our oven properly, it was funny. Wednesday we went to go to a short film screening held by Nefesh B'Nefesh. On our way there, we stopped in a place to grab a bite to eat. As we were waiting for our food a man came up to us and said, "Are you a couple?" and awkwardly and confusedly we answered yes. Then the man continued on to say how nice it was to see us together and that we "should have a bracha" (we think he means sheva brachot, like a wedding) and told me what a nice guy Jason was, which is weird because he doesn't know Jason and then the man left. Just another example of the crazy Jews who live here. The film screening we went to was very interesting, it is the only religious film school in Israel, so the films were all very candid looking at religious life. Thursday, Career Israel had a field trip to the West Bank, so of course I went along too. We went to a bunch of different Jewish settlement cities, one was Haredi and one was Religious Zionist and we even went to go to look at an Arab town, but we only look ed at from a far and didn't go in. Thursday night we went to go see a production of the Sound of Music, in English of course, that was being done to give money to Sderot ( a southern city that constantly gets bombed by Gaza). The musical was not as good quality as something Stevenson would have put on but it was nice to just see a play and it was very cute. It was interesting though because sitting in that theater I didn't even feel like I was in Israel, everyone was speaking English and I just had this weird moment were I was like whoa, I am in Israel right now, it was weird. After the show, we met up with a friend of Jason and mine from Brandeis who was here on a program. Friday was a relaxing day, we did some chores, like cleaning and going grocery shopping and mostly just lazed around the house. In the afternoon we caught the bus to Bet Shemesh, on the way there however, our bus started to fill up with smoke and everyone started screaming at trhe driver to stop, and he took like 5 minutes to stop and then we all ran off of the bus. The engine had overheated, it was a very hot weekend this weekend, so then we had to wait for another bus to come pick us up. Eventually we made it to Bet Shemesh to our friend's house. They have 6 kids and still had room for us to stay. Jason and I had fun palyign with the kids and spending time having an Haredi Shabbat. While in Bet Shemesh, we also visited a co-worker of mine and Jason's 3rd cousins who all live there. There was a ton of playing with little kids and people saying things about how we should get married. Then on the way home from Bet Shemesh, I wasn't feeling very good and I got sick when we got off the bus and kind of ruined the rest of the night because I felt gross.

Now to the ants...............................
All of last week we kept finding ants in our kitchen, not some many but enough that it was getting annoying and unclean. While Jason and Eli were baking challah, we found ants in the sugar and that was the last straw. So we decided this week to fix our problem. We cleared and cleaned out the entire kitchen and then sprayed with ant sprayed all over. Then we let it sit for a day(so this is 2 days without a kitchen) and then we cleaned the kitchen again to get rid of all the ant poison and then we put everything back. We were ant free for about a day when we noticed, not ants on the counter but some ants in the sink. And now we have ants in the office. So, we have just given up. As long as it is only a few ants and they aren't on the kitchen counters and all of our food is properly put away in the fridge or in Tupperware then we should be good to go.

That was our crazy week and now we are going to start another.
Hugs and Kisses

J and A

PS - I put up all the pictures up until today on my Picture site, go check them out!