“Ani lo metaber ivrit” or in anglit (English), I don’t speak Hebrew. Hopefully that will change soon since yesterday we started Ullpan. Ullpan is learning the Hebrew language, which I’m sure will be very tough for me. I never paid attention in Spanish class in 9th or 10th grade so I never learned anything, but I also didn’t care to learn. I’m excited to start to learn Hebrew and I hope by the end of 5 months I will be able to have a conversation with a stranger in Hebrew. I don’t start teaching for another 2 weeks so the next 2 weeks is Ullpan at 12:30 for 3 hours and then free time other than that.
I spent last Shabbat the way Shabbat should be celebrated in Israel and that is at the beach in Tel Aviv. Busses don’t run on Shabbat and taxis are very expensive so we took the Sherut to the beach. The Sherut is a great concept, one that I think would work back in Bmore. It’s basically a van that picks you up, they run every 3-4 minutes and you flag it down as you would a taxi. The van holds about 12 people and they run on a route like a bus would and you get off anywhere you want. The Sherut is a little more expensive than a bus but more convenient, it is also significantly cheaper than a taxi. It takes me about 25 minutes to go from my house to the central bus station in Tel Aviv. Sherut’s run from every major city and so far I’ve taken a lot of them to get to where I need to go. I spent the afternoon with friends lying on the beach in TA followed by a couple drinks at the bars on the promenade as the sun went down, no complaints from me.
Yesterday I met an Israeli girl named Daya and we made plans to go out to dinner. She picked me up and told me that before dinner we were going to her cousin’s house to pick mangos. Daya’s uncle whose real job is at an IT company, also had a red pepper and mango farm, insisted on showing me every detail of how his farm worked. It was actually pretty interesting and high tech, the red pepper farm was about 1/3 of an acre and the mango farm was a little less than an acre, the entire farm was computerized in terms of how much, when and where the water was distributed. I left the house with a grocery bag full of mangos and red peppers and was told they are taking me with them on the next family trip in Israel. Anyway, sushi after that, had a great time, met some of her friends, all very nice and cute…Kaufman/Sharrow/Stander/JWeitz if you’re interested on making the trip.
I know the video sound didn’t work last time, I will fix that. The first picture is of the sherut and the second one is of me, Daya her cousin and uncle.
I spent last Shabbat the way Shabbat should be celebrated in Israel and that is at the beach in Tel Aviv. Busses don’t run on Shabbat and taxis are very expensive so we took the Sherut to the beach. The Sherut is a great concept, one that I think would work back in Bmore. It’s basically a van that picks you up, they run every 3-4 minutes and you flag it down as you would a taxi. The van holds about 12 people and they run on a route like a bus would and you get off anywhere you want. The Sherut is a little more expensive than a bus but more convenient, it is also significantly cheaper than a taxi. It takes me about 25 minutes to go from my house to the central bus station in Tel Aviv. Sherut’s run from every major city and so far I’ve taken a lot of them to get to where I need to go. I spent the afternoon with friends lying on the beach in TA followed by a couple drinks at the bars on the promenade as the sun went down, no complaints from me.
Yesterday I met an Israeli girl named Daya and we made plans to go out to dinner. She picked me up and told me that before dinner we were going to her cousin’s house to pick mangos. Daya’s uncle whose real job is at an IT company, also had a red pepper and mango farm, insisted on showing me every detail of how his farm worked. It was actually pretty interesting and high tech, the red pepper farm was about 1/3 of an acre and the mango farm was a little less than an acre, the entire farm was computerized in terms of how much, when and where the water was distributed. I left the house with a grocery bag full of mangos and red peppers and was told they are taking me with them on the next family trip in Israel. Anyway, sushi after that, had a great time, met some of her friends, all very nice and cute…Kaufman/Sharrow/Stander/JWeitz if you’re interested on making the trip.
I know the video sound didn’t work last time, I will fix that. The first picture is of the sherut and the second one is of me, Daya her cousin and uncle.
Sounds like your having a great time dude!! Keep posting!!
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