Walking around TLV find us new themes each day.
So here are some lovely outfits I'm trying to choose between for the first day of school next year.
Sabbath begins at sundown. Shabbat Shalom.
Friday, March 6, 2015
March 6, a doggy day and high fashion.
Gym and studies- they are a part of every day so I'll stop posting about them...
Walking around TLV find us new themes each day.
So here are some lovely outfits I'm trying to choose between for the first day of school next year.
On another note- cats and dogs have status here in TLV. Dogs are allowed in the malls, stores everywhere. A cat helped prepare my cup of tea yesterday.
All of these dogs come to the sidewalk Friday mornings looking for homes. :( They come from a high kill animal shelter I believe :(.
Sabbath begins at sundown. Shabbat Shalom.
Walking around TLV find us new themes each day.
So here are some lovely outfits I'm trying to choose between for the first day of school next year.
Sabbath begins at sundown. Shabbat Shalom.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Well.... WOW March 4, 2015
The only reason I know what day it is is because of the calendar on the bottom of my computer.
E and I made a huge attempt to reboot our sleep systems so we got up in the am Israeli time. Now it is closing in to sleep time, but for most of you, you are psyched for lunch. Lexi, sorry I can't walk you to lunch :( and Alyssa, sorry I didn't say "bye". No one was home when I went by. ( No, That's not weird, we live on the same road...)
SOOOOOOooooo.... today was cool, literally. A few drops of rain even hit us!! E and I took a city tour- basically a bus that drives around highlighting all of the major sights. I took many pictures, but am not sure what all of them are from. The bus moved fast :)
So my WJHS peeps, the pics of you as " Flat Stanleys" will be posted back on our class blog. What? You deleted it already? Sigh... I am going to post them there because the rest of the world reading my blog doesn't need to see pictures of Super Jared diving head first into a pile of sand. I'm on a Fulbright here... have to be respectable. Each day I select a handful of you to come with me. Look for the pics on our class blog...
Here are pics from today- OH and I got invited to a Purim party tonight, but not realizing what Purim really was before I arrived, I do not have the correct full costume, just a mask. oh well.
E and I made a huge attempt to reboot our sleep systems so we got up in the am Israeli time. Now it is closing in to sleep time, but for most of you, you are psyched for lunch. Lexi, sorry I can't walk you to lunch :( and Alyssa, sorry I didn't say "bye". No one was home when I went by. ( No, That's not weird, we live on the same road...)
SOOOOOOooooo.... today was cool, literally. A few drops of rain even hit us!! E and I took a city tour- basically a bus that drives around highlighting all of the major sights. I took many pictures, but am not sure what all of them are from. The bus moved fast :)
So my WJHS peeps, the pics of you as " Flat Stanleys" will be posted back on our class blog. What? You deleted it already? Sigh... I am going to post them there because the rest of the world reading my blog doesn't need to see pictures of Super Jared diving head first into a pile of sand. I'm on a Fulbright here... have to be respectable. Each day I select a handful of you to come with me. Look for the pics on our class blog...
Here are pics from today- OH and I got invited to a Purim party tonight, but not realizing what Purim really was before I arrived, I do not have the correct full costume, just a mask. oh well.
You do not climb poles here...
Skyline of Tel Aviv from Jaffa
JONAH and the whale... began in Yafo.
ummm.... wings and Mexico. That's all I could figure out...
OK so this is cute. This is the love bridge... You put a lock on the bridge with the person you love. Initials are on the lock. Interesting...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
March 3, 2015
1. We are not going to get over jetlag by sleeping until noon.
2. Let's talk about Purim.
First google
The festival of Purim is celebrated every year on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar (late winter/early spring). It commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from Haman's plot “to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews, young and old, infants and women, in a single day.”
What happens? Something between Halloween and Mardi Gras.
"The result is a mad-cap party of non-stop craziness, which takes over pretty much the whole country for two days (Jerusalem and other walled cities celebrate a day later, meaning with some traveling you can double your Purim fun.) The streets are filled with kids and grown-ups wearing insane outfits, and there’s so much going on, one literally cannot avoid bumping into a party. Grab a bottle of bubbly, fill up your pockets with hamantaschen, and let your head go!"
www.chabad.org/holidays/purim/article_cdo/aid/.../What-Is-Purim.htm
This is a little taste of Purim.. It's getting loud outside! uh oh!
We live in a very "happening" area...
ok moving on-
3. Pictures of our "hood"
Can you see the bubbles? They just blow into the street 24/7. Well, I actually did not stay up and watch, so I am not sure it is actually 24/7.
Well, sometimes a bird is just a bird!
4. To round out the day, we did get some Vitamin D. Now I have hours of homework to do. I hope you do too :)
2. Let's talk about Purim.
First google
The festival of Purim is celebrated every year on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar (late winter/early spring). It commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from Haman's plot “to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews, young and old, infants and women, in a single day.”
What happens? Something between Halloween and Mardi Gras.
"The result is a mad-cap party of non-stop craziness, which takes over pretty much the whole country for two days (Jerusalem and other walled cities celebrate a day later, meaning with some traveling you can double your Purim fun.) The streets are filled with kids and grown-ups wearing insane outfits, and there’s so much going on, one literally cannot avoid bumping into a party. Grab a bottle of bubbly, fill up your pockets with hamantaschen, and let your head go!"
www.chabad.org/holidays/purim/article_cdo/aid/.../What-Is-Purim.htm
This is a little taste of Purim.. It's getting loud outside! uh oh!
We live in a very "happening" area...
ok moving on-
3. Pictures of our "hood"
4. To round out the day, we did get some Vitamin D. Now I have hours of homework to do. I hope you do too :)
Monday, March 2, 2015
Can this still be March 2?
All I can say is that most people are nice. Today's challenge was money. OK, shekels... check. Paper money and coins. Ok. But then there are these other coins... hmmm... the vendor at the Carmel Market (pic below) was unimpressed when I handed him these other, apparently worthless coins.
There's more-
Hungry at 10 pm, because our attempt to cook dinner was weak, we ventured out for falafel. One funky eating place looked promising. No English in sight. I asked for falafel. No falafel, but pita bread with steak and yummy additions. Ok, I said price? 88 shekels. Oops. We had heard about the 6 shekel falafel and left wallets at home. No problem she said, 2 for 1 for Sarah. So that was good. We ordered takeout but when she yelled, " Sarah why aren't you sitting down? sit down! enjoy!" We sat down. And enjoyed.
E and I walked all around Tel Aviv-Yafo today. I won't post any pics of the lovely Med. No, we did not swim. We put on a lot of miles and learned a whole lot about our temporary 3 month home.
The port of Jaffa has been a port for almost 4000 years. It's mentioned in the bible a few times.
Awesome to have all of this in one place!
This evening we met our already helpful au pairs/tutors. Amazing, talented, educated ladies. I will try to get some skyping time with them and my classes.
So here I sit with three pounds of olives. In Israel you say what you mean. No wishy-washy "just a few please", or else you end up with three pounds of olives!! (That you tried to pay for with agorot. Those are the "worthless" coins I mentioned above.) oy!
There's more-
Hungry at 10 pm, because our attempt to cook dinner was weak, we ventured out for falafel. One funky eating place looked promising. No English in sight. I asked for falafel. No falafel, but pita bread with steak and yummy additions. Ok, I said price? 88 shekels. Oops. We had heard about the 6 shekel falafel and left wallets at home. No problem she said, 2 for 1 for Sarah. So that was good. We ordered takeout but when she yelled, " Sarah why aren't you sitting down? sit down! enjoy!" We sat down. And enjoyed.
E and I walked all around Tel Aviv-Yafo today. I won't post any pics of the lovely Med. No, we did not swim. We put on a lot of miles and learned a whole lot about our temporary 3 month home.
The port of Jaffa has been a port for almost 4000 years. It's mentioned in the bible a few times.
Awesome to have all of this in one place!
This evening we met our already helpful au pairs/tutors. Amazing, talented, educated ladies. I will try to get some skyping time with them and my classes.
So here I sit with three pounds of olives. In Israel you say what you mean. No wishy-washy "just a few please", or else you end up with three pounds of olives!! (That you tried to pay for with agorot. Those are the "worthless" coins I mentioned above.) oy!
Monday morning, March 2, 2015
Sunday, March 1, 2015
So WOW, we are here!
2/28- 3/1
OK, leaving the Bangor airport was pretty straightforward. You know, it's Bangor... Philly was pretty normal as well... a meal at Legal Seafood ( what does that mean exactly? versus illegal?). E and I meander towards our gate 1 1/4 hours before departure and what do we see? this-
What is this you might ask? Well, we already had gone through security, TSA screening etc, but the flight to Tel Aviv had extra security measures. My carry-on had to go through the machine three times before they declared me safe. Phew.
Our flight turned out to be 9 1/2 hours instead of 11. Fine by us. I'm not sure what E did but I slept. I woke up for breakfast, then slept until landing.
We had LOTS of luggage- over 200lbs ? Our taxi brought us to our apartment where we met Ofra. She let us in and gave us the lowdown.
Tons of feral cats in TLV.
HOME for now!
Next, it was out to find food.
OK, as we all know, in spite of Rosetta Stone, my Hebrew is just pathetic :(
Grocery shopping was an adventure. Here is what we saw.
Yeah, me too. But we did our best to buy some essentials... milk, pita bread, hummus and yogurt. .. or so we thought.
So at this time- 9:35 pm, we are 7 hours ahead of Maine, our apartment is kind of unpacked. The milk we bought is NOT milk. We do not know what it is? and the cream cheese for the bagel is not cream cheese. However, caffeine awaits in the morning, and tomorrow is another day.
OK, leaving the Bangor airport was pretty straightforward. You know, it's Bangor... Philly was pretty normal as well... a meal at Legal Seafood ( what does that mean exactly? versus illegal?). E and I meander towards our gate 1 1/4 hours before departure and what do we see? this-
Our flight turned out to be 9 1/2 hours instead of 11. Fine by us. I'm not sure what E did but I slept. I woke up for breakfast, then slept until landing.
We had LOTS of luggage- over 200lbs ? Our taxi brought us to our apartment where we met Ofra. She let us in and gave us the lowdown.
Tons of feral cats in TLV.
HOME for now!
Next, it was out to find food.
OK, as we all know, in spite of Rosetta Stone, my Hebrew is just pathetic :(
Grocery shopping was an adventure. Here is what we saw.
Yeah, me too. But we did our best to buy some essentials... milk, pita bread, hummus and yogurt. .. or so we thought.
See one should always learn the language- I have no idea what is in this but I'm sure it is fun and babyish??????? or diapers? or???
SCIENCE LESSON- OK students, read the graph. What has happened to the value of the US dollar vs. the Israeli New Sheqel? So our pita bread cost 6.90 sheqels. How many dollars is that?
So at this time- 9:35 pm, we are 7 hours ahead of Maine, our apartment is kind of unpacked. The milk we bought is NOT milk. We do not know what it is? and the cream cheese for the bagel is not cream cheese. However, caffeine awaits in the morning, and tomorrow is another day.
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