So Thursday rolled around and my friends Eric and Emily and I were soooo ready to get out of Jerusalem!! We grabbed our stuff and hopped on a bus to Tel Aviv for the beautiful 75 degree day! It was wonderful we just relaxed on the beach and walked around and I did my first sudoku in like 5 years...
Later that night we arrived back in jerusalem and Geries invited Shauna and I to go out with some of his friends so we met up with them on Ben Yehuda Street. I have mentioned this before but I have to emphasis the unique nature of the people of Israel. For instance it is totally normal for them to stop in the middle of the street drive over the median and continue on the opposite way. Below is a picture of a man on a motorized cart driving on the street... typical Israeli-- not to mention super dangerous considering the drivers here...
Anyways, here is Shauna Geries and I and below is another one of me and Geries's friend Dimitri who is around from time to time. It was a really fun night... one of the funniest things was Geries ordered Nachos which when they came out we realized are VERY different than what we thought they were going to be and he proceeded to argue with the waitress for a good ten minutes about how they were not in fact real nachos. If only I could capture his personality in this blog...
Today was a VERY low key day and by that I mean I was online playing around with Twitter and facebook for almost the entire day... the plan was to go walk around the old city but we were advised not to due to "heighted tension". For those of you who do not know (which seems to be most everyone) grad rockets fell on Beersheva (south of Jerusalem) two days ago. If you are interested to know more you can read about it on the Jerusalem post website. Grad rockets fall on Beersheba neighborhood
People have asked if I feel scared here but honestly I still feel safer here than in the US. If anything happens this entire country is trained in what to do... in America most people would have no clue. Most of the time the things that make it seem scary are just extra measure to be on the safe side... When I get home it will be weird to walk into stores/libraries/restaurants etc. without having my bag checked and going through a metal detector!
Anyways thats all the news I have for now... Next weekend is my Kibbutz trip so stay tuned to hear all about that! Also I revived my twitter from the dead today so you can follow me at bbeck0914
Safe and Sound in Jersualem,
B
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