This week was so fun! Highlights: Becca and I went to Old Jaffo this week...we just took a bus there, and had no idea where we were going. but we just followed a map, and came to it! it was so beautiful! There were lots of old shops, with Judaica and Jewelery, the clock tower, and this restaurant called Dr. Shakshuka, which is a pan with tomato sauce, vegetables, and in it an egg is cooked. When we got there, I noticed the restaurant, and a guy on the street brought us in the back and started asking us to help us cook in the kitchen! it was so funny! We walked all around the town and we found the observatory. Over it you could see the entire veiw of the city and the shore, just like on a postcard. (Which we bought too). te We went into St. Peter's Monastery, which beautiful, walked by the condemned 'Wishing Bridge', and just walked around all the town. Then we ate at Dr. Shakshuka! Sooo good!!
Thursday night we wanted to go out, but the bus never came, so we ended up making omeletes! it was awesome. Then we had to wake up at 4:45 a.m to catch the bus to the shabbaton to the Golan heights. our alarms didn't go off, so we had to run to the bus, which came a half hour late!
On the bus ride we all slept, but when we woke up we arrived at the ATVing place. We couldn't ride the ATV's because it was pouringgg, but we rode the jeeps instead. We were told to follow a guide on the jeep, but we missed the tour, and when he told us to go right at the end of the road, and then the fork in the road came, our friend jonas just drove the jeep straight the the streets of the golan! Then we decided to find the caravan. we drove through mud and rocks, which was awesome (i got to drive), but soo freezing! My clothes were literally drenched.
On the bus we were given goldstar, red label, Johnny Walker, to start celebrating for shabbos!
We arrived at the 'ziplining' place after, which turned out not to be ziplining at all. It was cliff repelling in the golan! At first i was so scared to do it and too uncomfortable from being soaked, but i saw everyone doing it and I knew I had too. Since I decided to do it last, i was the last one to go. We literalyl repelled from a cliff straight down into a valley. The rocks were really wet and I was so terrified of slipping in the mud straight off the cliff, but I didn't. I thought I wouldn't be scared too, and when it was my turn to go, I was acting so casual. Then when I had to jump off the cliff, I was so afraid, but i did it! I reached the bottom, which turned out to be a huge land filled with goat shit. We had to hike down this mountain (really difficult) through goat shit, and all the way back up the top of another mountain. It was beautiful, overlooking the whole golan, but it was hard to pay attention because I was practically dying from the hike, and also freaking out I was going to fall off the mountain. I made it to the end though, covered in mud and shit. I was rewarded with a shot of johnny walker, and a pita! Yay israel! We made it to the hostel which was two hours away for the shabbaton!
The hostel was really nice, and the shabbaton was wiht hebrew u students and ben gurion students. We sang, ate, prayed, drank wine, and had an amazing time. I had friends at Hebrew U which was nice too. We learned about the Golan, and how there are 0
It was a great weekend! Now we're back in Ulpan! I saw my friend Amit Today, who lives in Or Yehuda and was taking a test at the University-which is why my ulpan class was in another building today (we got so lost getting there) because there were exams at the university today.
Ohh I tried Sabich at Cafe Greg the other day! It's eggplant, hardboiled egg, lettuce, onions, tomatoes, whatever...on pita. It's awesome! But My friend in my class said I have to go to this frischman sabich place to try it there because it's the best in Tel Aviv!
That's all!
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