Sunday 1/2
Lots of quality Samara time, e-mail, blog update etc....
Ran into people (as always).
Egon with Brent at night...
Monday 1/3
Met Harry for lunch, bead store on Emek with Samara & Talia, then off to Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv was so incredibly...random is the best word, I think. Got to Tel Aviv in the afternoon, no idea where I was staying. Wandered around the bus station for literally half an hour, looking for the information booth, finally found it and no one was there. Right... Ended up asking this guy working in some store where a youth hostel was, and he told me to go to Ben Yehudah Street. So I took a
sherut there, got off when other people were getting off, saw a sign for the 'Sky Hostel' so I figured that was a sign and ended up staying there.
After I put my bag down, I walked around for awhile, went to the mall, Sbarro for dinner, checked movie times, headed back to the hostel. Real randomness began there, meeting people in the hostel.
So there were the guys from Reno (Mark &...someone else) who were biking through the Middle East. The kid from Amsterdam (Timo...I think...) whose a polis sci major so he took two weeks to come to Israel and check things out. Joshua the former army x-ray tech turned musician/Tarot card reader who came here over a month ago, was supposed to stay a few weeks, and still has no plan of leaving. Then Assaf, the Israeli who works at Momo's Hostel (a hostel down the street that's connected to Sky) when he's in the country, which isn't often, seeing as he's perpetually traveling. Awesome.
Went to see "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" with Timo & Joshua. Fantastic movie, hope you all saw it/will see it.
Tuesday 1/4
Assaf showed me around Yaffo & Tel Aviv. Went to the
shuk, bought some great skirts for practically nothing, lots and lots of walking...
Went to see "Cellular" at night. Entertaining, but not particularly good.
Wednesday 1/5
At an internet cafe right now, heading off for Tevariah (Tibereas) in a minute. And basically out of time here, so that's all for now!
