Megillah Daniel
Trip Start
Jan 15, 2006
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Trip End
Jun 2006
Jerusalem,
Israel
Monday, January 30, 2006
Sunday night at Hebrew University is football night and we play with a whole load of other international students at the Learner Sports Centre. The facilities there are brand spanking new and are pretty amazing. We play from eight until ten in the evening and it is absolutely freezing. This however, does not stop us wearing shorts and sporting our various England football shirts. Anyway, the way it works is that we play an all England team (with a German or Argentinian guy thrown in)against teams from other countries. First game first week, we beat the Russians...then got thumped by everyone else (mostly really hard guys from Eastern Europe). The same happened last night. The games are extremely physical and I am still aching all over today. Great fun though.
The intensive Hebrew lessons are going pretty well. We had our first big test on everything we have done so far. I rinsed it. 96%. Get in! The lessons do get a bit boring however when we have six hours of it a day. I stop concentrating and that is always when the teacher asks me a question! Very Frustrating.
Last weekend was pretty boring. Most of the friends I had made went to the Kinneret on a trip that I put my name down too late for. I spent Friday afternoon watching "The Office" on DVD. Then the Wing Commander and I had Friday night dinner with some American friends of ours which was very fun - it was an evening of sophisticated chat. During the day on Shabbat I sat bored senseless. Although most of the weekend was dull, Saturday night was brilliant. It started off with the Wing Commander and I having coffee and cakes in a huge coffee shop in town. Then I met Uncle Yehuda (yeah he's only six months older than me and not related but I call him unlce becuase I think it's funny)in town for dinner. We did a bit of a running hug which would have been very funny except that it resulted in me smashing Yehuda's nose with my shoulder. He thought it was painful, I thought it was hilarious. Then Yehuda, Wing Commander McQuity, Avi Grayeff and I had a great dinner (halumi salads) in a brilliant dairy place. After that I saw Elise in town which was very cool indeed. The rest of the night was spent in various bars with live music and beer.
The bars here are great and we have a couple of regular haunts, but one of my favourute eateries is a Mexican place called Bocadillo which does a great spicey chicken breast in Ciabatta sandwich. Speaking of food, the Shwarma count is quite low - only eaten three, but on the bright side, the student union shop sells Dr. Pepper!! Yay!!! I also forgot to mention another great food serving establishment - Burger's Bar. Does amazing burgers and chips that are crisps. Wow!
I shall leave you with a quote from an American chum of mine (keep in mind that there are no lessons on Friday and that Thursday is students' night).
"You know what Thursday night rhymes with???? Shots!!" (pronounced "shaaaartz")
- He was very drunk that night.
Pictures coming soon....
Until next time,
Daniel
