another day at school

Sunday (12/18)

Limor and I left early at 10am for school. It was a regular school day for Limor. I still haven't gotten used to the idea that for Limor (and the rest of Israel), the weekend lasts from Friday to Saturday, with Sunday beginning the week anew. It feels right though, because at home everybody is ready to drop by Friday morning, and we're all ready for the weekend anyway, so why not start it then? Of course, if our week began on Sunday, we'd probably feel ready for the weekend on Thursday, so it wouldn't really make any dfference.

Anyway, so it was a regular day at school...oh wait, I already wrote about this. NEXT!


Monday (12/19)

Limor had to go to Dimona for field work, and I couldn't tag along, so I planned on getting up with her to get some work accomplished. Again, I was powerless to resist the sweet temptation of bed, and so I didn't get up until 11am. You see a theme here?

I woke up and turned on some music. I didn't realize Limor's stereo is broken, so I hope I didn't deafen anyone when I tried to turn down the volume, only to raise it to the max level. Once that was fixed, I spent about 30 minutes exercising (I'd like to do this regularly), and then I probably puttered about for a bit, eating breakfast (PILLOWS!) and cleaning up dishes.

I should mention that there is this breakfast cereal called "Kariot", which translates to "Pillows". I believe it has to do with the fact that each bit of cereal is a chocolate wafer surrounding a creamy chocolate center - in the shape of a bed pillow. For me, this is heavenly, because I love cereal and sugar and chocolate, and this is all three (for breakfast!).

Actually, I think I worked on the webpage instead, or maybe played around online, for a couple hours before eating breakfast, because I think I was just finishing my bowl when Limor came home, and she didn't come back until 3pm'ish.

Soon after Limor came back, she had a tutoring session for her work-study program (called "Perach", which means "flower"). That lasted for two hours, during which time I read (still haven't finished with my second book, I'm pacing myself well). After walking her student to the bus stop, we showered and met Limor's friends Hadas, Re'ut, and another social worker Hila, for dinner.

Hadas drove us all over to Arigato, a sushi / Asian bistro. It is a small place, and we sat in the outside section, which is a small room enclosed by a clear plastic hanging. After putting out the gas heating lamp while trying to move it closer to our table (it was chilly) we had a good time ordering food. Limor and I split some California rolls (with salmon instead of fake crab), and I had a too-spicy Chang Mai Pad-thai. I'm going to stop eating Thai food in the future. Other than that, dinner was fun.

After dinner, we dropped Re'ut off because she was still getting over a cold, and headed to Ben-Gurion U. to see a Pink Floyd cover-band. I'm not going to pretend that I'm a Pink Floyd fan (dammit I keep spelling it "Floyed", like the past-tense of "floy" whatever that is) but I'm up for new things, and it was free. Good thing I went, because the most random thing happened - I saw Jenny P, one of my friends from Raleigh. She actually spotted Limor and I in the middle of the dark and crowded student center, although I don't know how. I knew she was going to be in Israel same time as me, but how cool is it that she would cross paths like that?

*sidenote: ugh I'm trying to type this up while riding to Tel-Aviv on the very crowded Egged, the major inter-city busline, and it's so bouncy and jouncy that I'm starting to feel ill. ughhhhh....we just passed something which smells like old poo, which isn't helping matters at all. be back in a minute...*

So the concert was alright; the band did a very good job with the songs, I just wasn't in the mood for that genre. Also some gigantic dude had to stand in front of us during the concert and jam out, and he also had to cop an attitude when Adi politely asked him to stand somewhere else so the shorter people could see. We went home around 12am, and when we got back Aviad was stil having his "Erev Poker" (Poker Night) with some buddies, even though when I asked him he said he was already broke.