Purim and Hebrew

Every day is almost turning into a blur. Hebrew class, then something for the program, then the gym (on a good day), hanging out with people at night. This week was Purim week, which is INTENSE here. People have been dressing up almost every day even though actual Purim was today. The roomies and I decided to dress up as...drum roll please...the teenage mutant ninja turtles. 

Zo and I went to the shuk yesterday on a hunt for costumes. It was kind of a stressful task walking around in the crowded shuk, trying to picture how we can look like turtles, and attempting to bargain for our green tank tops and scarves. Overall the costumes came out pretty well...

As you can see from these pictures I am doing my "turtle face" which for some reason, I decided to make in every single picture taken of me last night. Everyone went to Flourintine Street which is in South Tel Aviv. This street was PACKED with people, to the point you could barely move. Most of the night was us just trying to get to one end of the street, not finding the people we wanted to, and then pushing through the crowd again to get back where we started. The pre party at Beit Leni (the building we live in) was VERY fun, and all of us drank a little too much so most of the day we just tried to recover.

After we woke up we went to this little restaurant on a side street and had Shashuka for breakfast. It was amazing. Sitting outside in this little cafe with the girls, having an amazing breakfast in Israel, I felt so relaxed. It was one of those moments where you feel all of your muscles relax, your mind go on auto pilot, and you just "be" where you are. I realized that I hadn't felt that relaxed in a very long time. Every thing I do here I just become speechless because I feel so lucky. 

We go back to Ulpan tomorrow and then this weekend we take a trip to the Negev desert to go hiking and see the bedouins. THEN, finally we begin our internships. I am still trying to get my work visa which has been a bit stressful because I need it before my first day of work. Its a two step process and the people I need to make an appt with are impossible to get in touch with. Seems to be the Israeli way.

Thats it for now. Nothing too exciting to report except life is good.