This one is entitled… people DO care.

OK, so it was with trepidation that I set off today.  My goal, an 11am meeting with Fourier Education.  They have the very cool probes that work with iPads,to use in science experiments.  The pedagogic manager of the company was nice enough to meet me in Tel Aviv last week, but today I went to HQ.  So google maps, we love google maps, but sometimes google maps do not love us!  My route was to take the bus to another bus to another bus.  I was not sure which direction to take the first bus? 

Remember the don’t talk to strangers thing?  Sarah always needs to talk to strangers here in Israel.  Unless they seem shady, anyhow… A lady waiting for the bus asked me about the bus, then asked where I am going? and said the train is better….just walk down the street a bit, take the 61 bus to the train station. 

I guess I am a muggle.  I did not even see a bus stop never mind bus 61!!  And all of this time I thought I was at least a half-blood!

So… worried that I was going to be late to this meeting ( although Israelis don’t seem to be often on time), I used my new app.  Gett taxi ( yes, I spelled it correctly.)  So I spent  a fortune and got there an hour early.  OK, time for tea?  So I went strolling down the street- in a high tech industrial park- and my taxi driver pulled over to ask if I was lost.  I explained I was early and Micha said traffic was too busy to drive back to TLV now, so let’s get a coffee.  OK then.

This town had a large population of Yemenites. So we stopped and he ordered a Yemenite snack.  I should have taken a picture Mrs. Pellerin, I’m sorry. It was a sliced hard-boiled egg,  two sauces in little bowls, and this rolled up pastry thing, like rolled up phyllo dough.  We also had a drink made of carrot and orange juices ( really good). So you dip the dough into the sauces.  Ok cool.  So I dipped and the cafe manager hollered something, and my taxi driver, now buddy Micha stopped me fro eating.  That red sauce is HOT.  I had generously dipped… oops scraped that off, and lived.

See People Care!

My meeting went well, then I had to go home.  I got a ride to the train station and asked the lady for a ticket to Tel Aviv.  16 shekels.  ok, got it.
How long does it take, I asked her.  She smiled gently and asked what station I was going to.  , ummm you know, Tel Aviv?  There are many stations she said.  oy!  I did my usual, well somewhere near central, ummm… so she said 25 minutes, central station. 

OK, this is getting long.  Finally, I got home- on a bus after the train, and nearly collapsed.  BUT we had to get to the local airport soon. Ya see, I’m getting really busy, and I want to be sure to do some touring before I have no time.  Last-minute deal to Eilat, on the RED SEA. 

So tired I couldn’t speak by this time… we got to Eilat, checked in, made the receptionist mad, made the waitress mad, then went to bed hungry.

But wait until you hear about breakfast…