Wednesday, March 4, 2009

brides in yaffo, ethiopian food feast, and bags of yellow peppers

Not much time to write because we are about to get ready to go to Landon for the night (an amazing club/bar) but I wanted to share a few things...

Yesterday we went to Jaffa/Yaffo on a tour of the city. The tour guide was a bit bland but it was great to see a different city. Heres a picture from Jaffo and the buildings you see are Tel Aviv.



SO one of the most entertaining parts of being here for the 2 hours were the brides that were EVERY WHERE taking photos. A few people thought they were models, but I think they were real brides because they all had cars "dressed up" with bows around them...like our "Just Got Married" cars in America. Anyway, these dresses were very...hmm...fresh. All of the bodices were see-through. I am not sure if you can tell from the picture.

Last night a bunch of us went out for Ethiopian food. I have never had it before, and neither had the majority of us. I ended up splitting this vegetarian plate with Talia. Heres a picture of us with our amazing smushed veggies and pancake. I am so sensitive to spicy food so I tried to stay away from the "blop" on the upper right. I had a few bites just to clear out my head.


Today after Hebrew every one split up to do different volunteer projects. I went on the "packing food" volunteer trip, onlt because I ended up not signing up until the last minute (this morning) and that was all that available. We had to take a van to some city about 40 minutes outside of Tel Aviv, went down to this underground parking lot, and sorted through boxes of peppers, bannanas, and oranges then bagged them in groups of 6. Not my ideal volunteer situation, but it was still nice to help out nevertheless. My team was in charge of the peppers. As you can see our beautiful mound of peppers after we bagged them.

I also went to the gym today and ran 30 minutes straight which I havent done in a very long time. Tomorrow I have hebrew and then we are going to see a concert in Jerusalem...Idan Raichel. We have all been learning this one song of his in class, so I am not sure if the song "boi" will ever leave my head for at least another week...or maybe ever. 

OH and also today, I learned how to say "I would like a large latte with soy milk please" in Hebrew. Even that line sounds a bit superficial to me in a weird way, but I love my lattes and this is going to be one of my go to sentences while I am here...this I am 100% sure.


2 comments:

  1. I think that is somthing I would want to know to. Minus the soy part

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  2. I officially named my Fridays "Starbucks Fridays", because its the one day where I hike up to get a Soy Latte with Peppermint and I make all the interns go with me haha. Yummmm lattes are the bestest ever

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