Today was one of the greatest days of my life. About half of us took busses out to Tel Aviv, and it was amazing. We laid on the beach, swam in the Mediterranean Ocean, explored the city, ate pitas and hummus in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant, shared some of the biggest pizzas I've ever seen, and finished the day with some delectable Italian gelato. It was warm with a breeze, the water wasn't too cold... it was just a great day with great people. We met some cool people on the beach... There were some Jewish kids from Ohio that were here for a "religious year abroad", where they come out to Jerusalem to learn more about their heritage and go to every bar in the city and get drunk every night. But they were nice. Then we met a couple of Israeli guys and these 2 guys from Rwanda during a pretty intense soccer game. A lot of the other people we tried to avoid, since a large percentage of them were old men in speedos. Ew. But I did have my first full conversation in Hebrew. Amazingly it included only phrases that we've actually learned in class, and it went like this:
Man(in creeper voice): Shalom
Me: Shalom
Man(in creeper voice): Ma Nishma? what's up?
Me: Be seder everything's cool
Man(in creeper voice): Yofi wonderful
Sadly, I forgot my camera so I will have to post pics later when I can get them from friends. We all came back tired and a little sunburned, but it was well worth it.
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