yesterday, al and i woke up and took a shruit with jen to the beach in tel aviv to meet abram. we're definitely getting better at navigating around that city. now we know exactly which bus to get on and where to tell the sheruit to drop us. we hooked up with abram near the end of the beach near allenby and chilled out in the water for a bit, then taking a snooze in the sand. i played a little guitar, then abram played some amazing classical pieces while we slept. jade and izy met up with us as we packed up to grab some grub. izy showed us where to get the best breca (turkish cheese pastry i would kill someone for right now) in tel aviv. after fully satiated, we walked a bit for a pint of murphy's and some photos at sundown. abram had to go to a concert with his family so he split and those of us remaining went back down to the beach to watch the sunset.
it was really beautiful and (for all you hopeless romantics) some guy even proposed to his girlfriend near where we were sitting in the sand! jade started to feel really sick so jen and izy took her back to ramla. al and i just hung on the beach and drank a beer before deicing to get all spiffied up in the back-up clothes we brought. some guy handed us a card for this pub on allenby, so we stopped there first. the place itself was pretty terrible, actually. think: TGIFridays as a dive bar, except with middle-aged, lecherous, creepy men. anyway, it was pretty lame except we ended up meeting an american guy who knows our birthright friend harper from staying in a hostile in tel aviv with her, so that was completely nuts. danced a little and then met back up with abram, who took al and i to this little place called cosa nostra which i absolutely loved. it was this small, quaint place off allenby with a nice patio. there were no tables available when we got there, but abram had made friends with the owner the night before so they let us in anyway. we stayed there for a while, and one of the israeli soldiers from our birthright trip, omri, met us.
after a while, we started talking to these really cool guys, who happened to be going to this nature party that izy told us about. basically it's a party deep in the woods with trance music and lots of people. sounds fun to me, so al took one of their numbers. we parted with abram and omri, and we walked to the bus station to catch the sheruit back to ramla.
now, i had been exhausted several times all day. i think i'm PMS'ing, which is a rare occurrance for me. i don't know if coupled with me being sensitive or homesick or something made me irritable or tense. but i definitely haven't felt like myself the last couple of days. i realized how different i actually felt on the way home at 6AM in the sheruit. all i could think about was how tired i was, how much i wanted to sleep in my own bed at the house, and how annoyed drunk boys made me. but then i stopped myself for a second. i was sitting in a 11 sheckel cab watching the sun rise in israel. normally, i would relish in this moment, appreciating every beauty in it. but i hadn't been. so i stopped myself in my thoughts, took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and relaxed. i took it all in, feeling very much cleansed just we pulled up to our stop. we opened the door, handled our business, and crashed.
this morning, al and i walked to our favorite falafel place for lunch. apparently on shabbat (today is friday), they throw out all the unused fixings for pita. friendly and resourceful as we are, al and i asked the owner if he would let us take the stuff he was going to throw away anyway. since we go there so often, he told us to come net friday at 2:30pm and take whatever is left before they close for shabbat. SWEET.
after lunch, al and i went grocery shopping because we desperately needed it. the plan was to get ready and head to jerusalem to have shabbat dinner with abram, itzy, tali (just back from chicago), and avi. so al and i got ready and booked it to the bus station in ramla. we got there just in time to realize that the buses had stopped running an hour before. so we just walked back to the house and made couscous with vegetables while the rest of our roommates prepared steak to be broiled in the newly functional oven. it was delicious until the power decided to fuck off. everyone grabbed flashlights and tried to get the breaker box to knock the power back on (especially since we have a fridge full of new groceries) and turned up the jams so we could have a little disco party (al and i have an amazing disco ball hanging from our ceiling---see? resourceful...). the power finally came back on, so al, alon, and i watched superbad for the 50 bagillionth time since we've been here.
now i'm going to bed. tomorrow, orna (host mom) is going to pick al and i up to go to the beach in tel aviv and then we'll stay out there to hang with jen at her friend's brithday party or something. i'm sure it'll be fun. and fun to write about. photos for sure. oh, and i should write a song too.
love,
sally
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