Jerusalem if I forget you...

Sorry I haven't been as on top of this as I want... been so busy!! Let's see...Sunsay night we went to a dollars for learning thing at the student center led by the Rabbi's wife. It's a pretty cool program. You go twice a week for an hour, and there are speakers some nights, discussions some nights about Judaism, one night we learn to make challah, and if you commit you get an $100 stipend! It's interesting and fun, and most of the time you get free food! Also, A lot of the OSP students go, so it's a nice community...reminds me a lot of chabad at school (pizza and parsha!)

Becca and I went to the shuk again one day to get our baby mr. pomegranites, they are so tasty and yummy! Our friend picked us up three big ones for 25 sheckels! Becca and I devour a pomegranite every day! MMMM!! we got some more fruit and vegetables..yummm!

Ohh for Shabbas we went to these people's house that the Rabbi hooked us up with. They were lovely peoploe, Esther and Moshe, with three beautiful children. It was a long walk, about three miles, and it was worth it for some tasty shabbos food. However...the husband and wife were...first cousins! Culture shock! But, that's life!

On shabbat, we walked to the becah and the port one day. it was suchhh a long walk along the beach, and we actually walked behind some airport, and behind the fences there were planes taking off, and guard dogs. It was kind of scary, but cool to watch. We walked so far we ended up at the port, which was so alive on shabbat...there were people everywhere!! We met up with some friends, and hung out a little bit.

Other stuff...I got a new ulpan teacher! A male, really cute!...haha, but he and my other ulpan teacher are switching every week, which will be frusturating but I'll get used to it.

So yesterday we went to Jerusalem! It was so much fun, but really cold and rainy! We went to Mt. Olives, ammuntion hill, the kotel of course, the excavation sites, the holy sepulcher..we got to see where jesus was buried and crucified! it was interesting to see because I've seen a lot of the other sites before, and this was really new to me. (or old...rather.) We got to walk through a part of the old city I haven't been to before, and they had awesome shops that I definitely want to go back too. We ate lunch in the new city and it made me sick because there was a nine west there. I mean, why is there a Nine West in the middle of Jerusalem? At times i feel like im still in america.

That's about it. Other than that I've been kind of stressed about classes and stuff. At TAU they require to take five additional classes after ulpan, which is 21 credits, and Hartford only allows 18, so I'm trying to contact so many people. I just want everything to be cleared up and also get Ulpan overwith and start the real semester! The classes seem so exciting, but it's scary because the finals are about 90% of your total grade. Looks like I'll have a lot of reading and studying to do!


Jaffo tomorrow!