Missing Post 2 - December Trip

Another missing post.

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Friday (12/30)

we're slow to get out of bed today, even though it's beautiful outside. it just felt very good to be in bed a little while longer. you know how it is.

(*Author's Note: I think we might have exercised at this point, my notes aren't very clear)

so we planned out our day, and then i sat down at my computer to work on the journal while limor did her weekly cleaning of the bathroom. i was interrupted by a call of "jeremy...the brush broke!" so i had to get up and find out what happened. luckily, i didn't have to fish a brush head out of the toilet, and i was able to just screw the handle back in without touching anything.

afterwards, since it was about lunch time and we were out of food, we walked downstairs and around the back of the apartment building to a little grocery store just outside. very convenient, even if they didn't sell pillows (grrr). we bought a weird grape/kiwi fruit drink, some milk, and a cereal labeled "energy flakes" (which turned out to be pretty good). there were some strange liquors there too, either with weird names or weird contents, neither of which i can remember a week later.

on the way back, i wanted to climb on the roof, but a rabid dog scared us away from the building.

back in the apartment, i helped limor prepare a brunch of avocado/egg salad. i sliced up probably the best avocado ever with surgical precision, not wasting a bit. seriously, that avocado was sooo good. i started with a bowl of the new cereal, but still hungry i ate some toast with chocolate spread, and then still a bit more hungry but more curious about the salad i spread some on more toast. ohh it was worth it.

so the past couple days i've been reading full swing - i could only pace myself for so long, and so i kept reading some more while limor continued to study for her quiz. after a while i stopped myself and cleaned up the sink full of dishes (limor loves it when i'm around). i tried to fix a loose pot handle, but it was too rusty so i gave up and sat down in limor's room to type up more journal. i was bored with typing up notes (since i was so far behind anyway) that i decided to work on the website instead. i made some more progress, which was good, but my feet were really cold, which was bad. for some reason limor's room was cold even though it was sill really nice outside.

dinner time rolled around, and so limor decided to make some sort of baked potato dish she hasn't tried before. it took a while to bake, but we ended up getting to re'ut's on time, where we met orly and mike, another israeli/american couple trying the long-distance thing. i heard that we were supposed to be some sort of model for them to emulate, although mike was canadian and had spent the last year studying in israel, so they've been having an easier time. mike was nice - he seemed like the typical friendly white guy who probably becomes a little bumbly when he drinks. orly was a bit more of an enigma - she seemed very friendly, but she also had the bossy qualities of an israeli with the disregard of consequences of an american.

later, some more of re'ut and nadav's friends came by. limor had assured me that i would hear nothing but english the entire night, as everyone there had participated in the same agency program that brought limor to the US. we were both a little shocked, and i was disappointed, when those fluent english-speakers instead spoke solely hebrew (with a bizarre spurt of spanish for absolutely no reason). even though there were two english speakers with little-to-nil knowledge of hebrew, the other people weren't considerate enough to switch languages, or even talk to us. nadav even spoke in english to them, and they responded in hebrew.

so dinner was kind of a bust. oh well. there was a very funny incident in the beginning, when after literally constructing an extra table nadav realized that it wouldn't fit through the kitchen door, and they almost had to take it back apart to get it to the living room. after some of the other people left, and it was just us and re'ut/nadav and orly/mike, i was able to have some complete conversations, but limor was getting tired so we went back home and went to sleep.