Too Many Festivals= a whole ton of fun!

Now this past week, whoa, was it jam-packed with good ole' fun! The week began with a group movie outing with some of the fellows from the PresenTense Institute ( the creative Zionist institute Jason was involved with last summer). We met up with a few of the people from the house and went to go to Wall-E and it was the most amazing movie I have ever seen!! Now, this may have been because the entire first half hour of the movie centered around music from Hello Dolly being sung and danced to by a little garbage eating robot or becuase this movie so openly faces so many hot bed issues in the funniest way. Anyone reading this needs to get up from the computer and go the nearest movie theater this second to go see this movie, it was Fab-u-lous!
Then the week continued with Jason and I deciding that we needed as citizens of Jerusalem to attend at least one film of the Jerusalem film festival. The one that sounded most interesting to us was a film about transexuality and gender-change operation in Iran. This movie was actually really eye opening and very interesting. In Iran, homosexuality "doesn't exist" and is punishable by death, however, the Islamic law says that transexuality is a medical condtion that can be treated by gender change operation, so this entire movie ceneterd on a few boys who wanted to become women; but you have to remeber that these boys wanted to become women in a country where you become the scum of the earth and you have no rights. The movie was called Be Like Others, check out the website, very interesting.
Thhhhheeeen, the next day we went to the Israeli wine festival at the Israel museum. At this festival you pay 50 shek to get in and then they give you a wine glass and you get to run free and wild around the entire stature garden trying wines from over 50 Israeli winaries. We had some really really really great wine! They also had great chocolate and cheese. We ran into to a ton of people we knew, of course all the American would coem out for some really cheap wine tasting. We also had way too much wine to drink and were totally drunk by the time we got home. Which was funny becuase we had to be really really early the next morning becuase we were heading up north to go on a hiking trip with Doron.

More about the hiking trip next post! Keep reading