late night fever

not much new to report, but the night before last alli and i, accompanied by two of our new roomates, jodi and jade, went out to tel aviv to meet inbal and idan. we finally found them and after a bit of walking, we ended up at freeland's pub (where we went the other night). it was pretty cool. i met a cocktail waitress named cher who apparently plays music like the yeah yeah yeahs. she introduced me to the owner/manager and i gave him my number in hopes of playing there. we had a pretty fun time hanging with idan, his girlfriend, inbal, and ricky even came by! all the girls paired off until it was time to leave, as i was falling asleep in the bar. bunch of sleazy guys, i think i was just tired but they were really aggravating. i passed the eff out in the cab on the way home and slept until 5PM the next day. no joke. how ridiculous.

anyway, we woke up and all us girls made dinner. jade (from new york), jodi (from new jersey), reina (from seattle), and alli of course. considering the fact that we don't have a functioning oven we didn't do too badly. i'm really excited to cook dinner all the time. i made some mac and cheese with noodles and grated mozarella and goat cheese with tomatoes, jade made grilled chicken and sliced potatoes, and i bought chocolate pop rocks:



after we ate dinner, all us girls dragged ourselves out of the house to jerusalem to a club with a birthright group led by inon. we were running really late and there was terrible traffic on the bus, but we met some cool people (israeli grad student in poli sci and english named asaf and some british dude). i love just talking to people on the bus. you just start on your journey feeling very isolated to the people you know, but by the time you get to your destination everyone warms up to each other and it feels like home. ANYWAY, we finally got to jerusalem and RANNNNNN (alli's idea) down jaffa street so we could get to the club before inon and his group left. we ended up just getting in a taxi and after the driver talked to inon on the phone, we finally got there and DAAAAAAAANCED. we met some pretty cool guys (one in particular), so we left with them to another pub which i really liked a lot. can't remember the name, but i'd like to go back there. it got too late to take a cab back to ramla, so we all walked to this (safe) flat and slept for an hour before waking up and catching the bus back home.

after a brief stop at the market, we really dragged ourselves home and passed directly out. waking up at 4PM, one of our other roomates arrived, alon. he seems really cool, from San Fran and plays guitar and piano. also flight of the conchords. buddy, you'd love it. stephanie and michael (other 2 roomates) just arrived and now we are all just sitting around getting to know each other. michael brought a housewarming gift in the form of cognac, so we'll probably sip a bit around the house and then pass back out until tomorrow, which is when we start our program officially, as well as ulpan (hebrew school) which i'm SOOOOOO excited about.

more later. still editing photos, but i posted some:

www.flickr.com/photos/blackmarketfunnelcakes

love,

sally