ok, so after stopping by the house where i will be living for the next half a year (it's so tight, pics ASAP), i was driven to the train station to catch 2 trains to the airport to pick up alli. well, i took one train, got off in tel aviv, caught another train, got off at the wrong stop, realized it would take me 40 minutes of waiting for the next train which would take 20 minutes to get to the airport. i just said fuck it, and paid 100 sheckels for a cab, which allowed me to meet (in my very broken, but quickly developing hebrew vocabulary) avi, the coolest cab driver ever. at one point we established that we both love music and i sing, and he turned down the radio so i could dazzle him. i didn't. but after a very anticipatory walk through ben gurion airport i found alli and we very excitedly hugged one another for about 3 hours. not really. but we got to catch up in the taxi on the way back to the house. we dropped off our stuff, claimed our room, and met naama, waiting for a while and finally catching a sherut taxi to tel aviv to meet naama's friend from boston. once in tel aviv, we walked to a pub called 'evita', which was pretty convincingly a gay bar (LOVED), to see her friend's band play. we walk in and it's two israeli guys singing simon and garfunkel. i died and went to heaven. i found the manager, arnon, to find out how i could play there, but i have to 1) have good songs and 2) be able to pull a crowd. he told me that i could come on monday for their... wait for it... KARAOKE night to compete once every 2 months for their first prize ticket to europe. i'm so down you don't even know. we also met these two crazy dudes, one from switzerland and the other from LA (i think they met by hooking up in a hostile that night, but that's just a hasty assumption). ANYWAY, we grabbed some pizza from 'evita', groceries for the house, and some coffee at a cute little place down the street before catching a taxi (and a nap) home where we promptly passed the fuck out.
alli and i woke up about 2 hours ago and are about to head into jerusalem to meet up with an israeli solider from our birthright trip (itzi) and possibly another girl from our ISC group that i met staffing another birthright group at the same time as mine.
i like run-on sentences.
the end.
love sally
pictures tomorrow. promise. lots of them.
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super jealous about them playing S&G....ahhhh i would have cried.
have fun with your lover ;)
So are ya gonna compete in the karaoke nite for a trip to europe?
of course dad! parks, you need to hear some things...
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