mall. yes the mall. i was on the bus to the mall, and an elderly gentleman sat down next to me. i made friends :) we chatted for a little while, nothing all that special for a while. he asked me where i come from, what i was doing in israel, things like that. i had to ask him to repeat quite a few times (it was all in hebrew) but he was quite willing and patient with me. i thought that his accent was much like other eastern europeans that i have met. yet, when i asked when he came here (thinking he was a new immigrant), he answered 1948. for those of you who don't know, that is the year of founding of the state of israel. he's been here since the beginning. wow. so i asked where he was from before israel, but not really thinking. he answered that he came from aushwitz. well...it was very amazing. i really enjoyed his company. he got off the bus before i did to go to emek rafaim to buy something for shabbat. i got off at the mall, and met up with a bunch of friends. unfortunately, i did not feel that they were worthy of my telling this story...so there it is.
that was last thursday. i have wanted to write about it since then, but i have had very little computer time since then. at the mall, i saw the transformers movie. amazing! pretty cool. the love interest was a little corny, but it was transformers! my whole childhood of collecting toys culminated in this film, and it was live-action. pretty cool. i went home after that (it being almost one in the morning). The next day (or same day depending on how you look at it..) i was going to tel aviv and leaving at 8:30 in the morning. so we (my cooking group and i) went to tel aviv. we were on a harry potter mission...the whole time in tel aviv was dedicated to HP. we went to three malls in order to see the new harry potter movie. it came out the night before, but because i was transforming, we saw it the next day. we hung out for the rest of the day at stav's house. stav is an israeli who lives in tel aviv and is a friend of dana (in the cooking group). stav offered for us to stay at her house during our escapades. our real reason for being in tel aviv was a harry potter book party. the last book was coming out that night! we were going to this party (with stav and some of her friends) to be among the first in the country to get the book. the book came out at two AM here, but we didnt get it until about 3:30...but then again, so did most of the other people at the party. because it was shabbat, most of the book stores of the country were closed. so we still got the book very quickly. we got back to stav's place and read until perhaps 6 am. we all started dropping like flies so we went to bed. two of us were up at like 10:30 (me included) and we read again. we read pretty much the whole day. poor stav is such a slower reader in english. when the three of the rest of us were already past page 300, stav was only around 90. we came back to jerusalem eventually, and the other two had already finished, and i had about 75 pages left. i went to dinner with my parents and said my goodbyes (the last time i would see them for the next two weeks), then got back to the dorm and got back to reading. i finished around 12 am. the culmination of this series! this series grew up with me. i was in fourth grade when i got the first two from my grandmom (before they were popular, mind you) and now it's over! it was not the best literature that i've read, but she does know how to weave a story.
sunday we had a field trip...masada, qumran, ein gedi, and the dead sea. i was considering asking if i could skip it because i'd done everything except qumran and it was gonna be a blazing hot day. i decided against it. it was blazing hot. lot of fun though. more people-wise than anything else. qumran was not all that special. we got back and the cooking group made some dinner. dont remember what it was though...maybe sweet-chili chicken and pita but that may have been another meal.
nothing all to special recently. i had my first college final today. that was fun. not difficult at all. it was about the ancient near east. took about an hour and a quarter to do. 95 or higher? i have done two papers in the other class and have gotten both back. the first was 20/20 and the second 18/20. i am quite fine with those. the final exam for that class is tomorrow.
afterwards, i will move out of my dorm (plenty of bureaucracy there, i'll let you know how it goes), and move into my parents' vacated apartment in center-city. very exciting. i will have dependable internet there. i'll keep ya posted!
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