Adam and Even
Trip Start
Jan 15, 2006
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Trip End
Jun 2006
Jerusalem,
Israel
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Wow it's been a great few days. Thursday afternoon was spent doing nothing in particular, but Thursday night was amazing. It started with drinks at an empty pub for a bit of a FHU (that's Friends of Hebrew University) social. This was great becuase the first round of drinks was on them. This was a nice chance to meet the English people I hadn't met yet - Melissa, Michael and Wing Commander McQuity. We call McQuity (first name Jonathan) Wing Commander because he's so incredibly British and was in the RAF Cadets. After that bar we moved on to another and saw loads of people from Hebrew U and chatted to some random Australians and some blokes from London. The bars here are amazing because they play all the music I love. At one point they played some Metallica and I almost spilt my pint and made a right prat of myself by singing along.
Unfortunatelty, the next day we had to get up early for a tour around the old city. I really didn't want to miss this, but the after the night before I couldn't be bothered to get up. However, I forced myself from the comfiness of my bed and got myself ready. The tour was great. We went to the Kotel (I put on tefillin) , saw loads of amazing archeological sites (many from the Roman era) and walked through the underground shopping areas. It was all very Middle Eastern. The highlight of the tour I was obviously the Kotel, but coming in at a close second was the huge bagel that I shared with Eric from America. This was exactly the kind of Israel experience I was looking for (that's the cultural bit, not the food). When I arrived back at my dorm I did some Ulpan work, then just sat around until Friday night dinner at the Hiatt Hotel. I thought it would be great and it was. I sat next to the Wing Commander and some American girls for dinner. During dinner, for the millionth time we had the discussion about the ways America is different from the UK. Of course it ended with a girl asking "Daniel, can you teach me to speak Briddish this semester?" To which I replied "Sure, first thing is British has a T in the middle not two D's."
The best thing about Friday night was after dinner a whole load of people went back a someone's apartment and had nargilah and various drinks. It was like being at a US college gathering/party (all Americans and us couple of Brits). It was so much fun and I couldn't believe my luck for all the fun stuff that had been going on. It was a brilliant night.
Shabbat (that's Saturday usually, but everyone calls it Shabbat here so I'm going to aswell) was cool. I didn't go to Shul (I probably should have done) but I managed to get in a good twelve hours of sleep. The weather on Saturday (Shabbat!) was beautiful - the sun was shining - unlike the rest of the week. I wonder if it had anything to do with it being the Sabbath. Anyway, Eric, Nick (a Brit) and I went for a long walk around and about which was nice - mainly because I could wear my highly cool sunglasses - but it also got us up and about.
More to follow,
Daniel
Comments
oy vey
the whether was beautiful??
lol maybe you should be learning english and not hebrew!!!
lol glad to see you are having fun my lovely :-)