Out and About

Well, it's been a while since my last post. Instead of blaming me for a lack of devotion to the blog, you should be asking yourself, "It's Justin's fault, isn't it?" Yes. It is mostly his fault. But, as you might guess, there are other possible reasons for a bit of slacking on my part. Allow me to list what some of them may or may not be:

1) Our internet access has been shoddy at best.

2) We have been performing illicit, highly illegal acts and to blog of these acts could alert the Israeli government, thus jeopardizing our visas.

3) We don't even have said visas, and do not want to risk the Israeli government discovering this.

But the main reason is fairly simple. We don't spend as much time in the computer room of the absorption center as we did when we first arrived. Why? Because we made some friends!

Allow me to explain: Last Thursday, our program had a get together in Tel Aviv. Having no prior commitments, Justin and I decided to attend. When we arrived at the Mona Lisa Cafe, we met about 20 other Stagerim participants. Apparently, Stagerim was (more on that in a future post) an international program. By my count, there were about 13 different countries represented at the gathering, including France, Switzerland, Germany, Mexico, Canada, Boston, Hungary, and Australia. Some of these people, it turned out, live in the very same absorption center that we do!

Dirty little secret: I hate Justin. Can't stand the guy. Never could. So I was pretty happy to meet some other young folk such as myself, and have been hanging out with them quite a bit the last few days. Unfortunately, Justin's always there too. Will someone tell him to back off?

Back to the night in Tel Aviv. Some of us enjoyed an adult beverage or two as we got to know one another. After a few hours, we decided to hit the bar scene. The whole night reminded me a lot of Freshman year in college. There were awkward introductions, obligitory getting to know you questions, and then a large group of people trying to agree on a place to go out. A lot standing around, indeciveness, and backtracking. But guess what? I loved Freshman year. Had a great time. Met most of my good friends. So I ain't complaining.

Outside La Chouffe, one of the bars we went to in Tel Aviv, with 1.5 new friends.

I promise to contribute at least 3 more posts this week.

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee