rape me my friend

so the other night after writing, we spent our evening making blueberry pancakes for buffy's birthday breakfast-for-dinner dinner and preparing our moustaches and beards for the party. we didn't really have much to work with because we had slacked off considerably in the moustache purchasing department. so we used yarn, at rayna's brlliant suggestion. after taing some cues from her, i impressed myself with yarn-work, creating a pretty sweet moustache/beard combo that i could tie behind my head. after dinner, we all showered and got bearded up. alice and i decided to go as men, giving each other alter-personas. i was morty. she was sheldon. that's how it went. now as you can imagine, ramla isn't used to a whole group of women walking down the street wearing yarn facial hair. we got some interested looks and questions walking to the sheruit, especially carrying all of rayna's luggage. we even walked by a sandwich shop in which one of the kids we volunteer with, worked. he looked just the most confused i've ever seen someone. while waiting in the sheruit, there were three spots and all of a sudden, jade, jen, and buffy happen to jump on. it was really sweet, all of us on the same one. we finally got to the sub kuch, while jen, lade, and buff went to a movie. we got millions of weird looks, but i wore my bear-stache proudly. we had a few beers, saw some friends, inbal showed up looking great, met some new people that play music, took some photos, and drew some moustaches on people who were lacking them. it was a good night. i got the hiccups, went for a walk with roni. walked to ben-el's place with al and david for a while and discussed some weird drug that i've never heard of: hagigat. went back to the sub kuch. al and i split up for the evening and i stayed at the sub kuch hanging with eran, daniel, jono, and david, finally falling asleep on the couch.

i woke up the next morning refreshed. read the newspaper with david and jono and ate some yummy buffet before walking with david over to his and nufar's place on levinsky. man, their place is beautiful and HUGE. they have this little enclosed balcony room with sliding window shades. we watched fashion tv because david is obsessed with it. jono stopped by and we all just watched tv before nufar came home. she dropped in with an actor friend of hers. i'll just refer to him as 'the most beautiful man i've ever seen'. i've never seen nufar act, so she put on a short film she's in, in which she plays a religious girl who's a lesbian, and in love with a married religious woman. it was really good, kinda funny. i finally talked to alli and she was hanging out with lior and roni at our house so i said my goodbyes to david, jono, and nufar before heading out the door. 'most beautiful man i have ever seen' offered me a ride to the central bus station on his motorcycle thingy. yes i said motorcycle thingy. i've never really ridden on a motorcycle save for the instance with my neighbor's friend who didn't know how to ride the thing and we almost just tumped over in this field. but that's neither here nor there. he passed me a helment and i climbed on. i asked him if i could hold on. he said yes. so i lived out my grease 2 fantasy on this guy. he drove fast. i pretended not to be scared. it was really fun. i held on tighter and he dropped me off. i gave him a hug and nearly knocked his bike over, then almost ran off with his helmet. man i am smooth.

finally got back home after almost suffering a clostrophobia attack in the sheruit, sitting stuck in a corner next to this HUGE guy. spent some fun time hanging out with lior and roni, talking about and looking up photos of s'mores. also, lior told me that their studio is almost done being built so i can come and record one of my songs there. i'm excited as shit about that. we played some music and laughed about stuff. after roni and lior left, sort of short notice, orna picked alice and i up for dinner at the house with eran. she told us about her trip to romania for a screening. once we got there, we ate her amazing tomato soup and broccoli. we spent the rest of the evening hanging out with yarden and eran, checking out their facebooks, and orna showed us photos of her and elan's halloween costume. i've never seen a funnier man in a wedding dress and red lipstick. also, yarden showed us photos of when she dressed eran up as a girl. priceless stuff. for dessert, orna melted chocolate and cut up fruit. we ate that. chocolate fondue. just sayin. well we said goodbye to elan and yarden so orna and eran could take us home. said goodbye to orna and eran at home, then we went inside to get ready for the nature party that lior and roni were supposed to pick us up for at 11PM. we had about 10 minutes to get ready. or so we thought. we thought carefully about what to bring and packed everything up. well after a few phone calls, and a nap on my part, 2:30Am rolls around and the boys finally show up. nature parties start around 2 or 3 in the morning apparently, so it was not out of the ordinary that they picked us up at this time. plus, the party wasn't far away, so we got there in no time. the theme was a jungle party, so if we brought an animal, we got in for reduced price. we forgot, but brought the DJ, so we still got in for less. we parked the car, grabbed our backpacks and walked down a dirt road following the trance beats. the music was playing for a couple of hours when the cops came. apparently you can't play loud trance music in the desert until 7AM, so we had to wait until sunrise. no complaints here. we just took a walk and watched the sun come up. the colors were insane. we found a kind of shelter/grape growing cage and stood there until the music came back on. we walked back and danced and played guitar and danced some more. met some nice people.

then, we took another walk. we found this amazing field. walked around the gate to get to the field. it was an orchard. i've never seen anything like this. it was just rows and rows and rows of perfectly line trees with green and yellow leave as far as the eye could see. i just remember this feeling of being completely overwhelmed with beauty being among these trees. we just kept walking and walking and more trees and more trees. perfectly lined. each way you turned. it was just gorgeous. anyway we walked to the end of the orchard, to this lookout point that spanned the entire agricultural development ahead. really amazing view. so naturally, i climbed the rock on the overlook point to take a photo. once i was done i felt myself slipping backwards but luckily grabbed onto some branches to keep from falling over. i yelled to alli that she just missed me narrowly avoiding eating shit. i reenacted my daring escape from death. i had just finished and was climbing down, chuckling to myself, while sitting on the lower rock, when i felt myself start to slide backwards. i'm sure all i could do was make a noise as i fell off the rock backwards, my legs flailing in the air as i slid into a thornbush. all i could do was piss myself laughing as i laid there for a second and struggled to get up. when i finally raised my body covered with thorns and all in my hair, lior was laying on the ground laughing and alli had run off somewhere because she couldn't take it anymore and peed her pants. she couldn't even hold it. hadar just took a photo of me laying helpless on the ground. i got a bruise.

we walked back through a field to sit somewhere. we all laid down and passed out, warmed by the sun. we woke up a few hours later and got ready to go. alli and i looked for our backpacks, which we had stowed by a tree near the party. they were nowhere to be found. we asked around, but to no avail. our backpacks got stolen. in mine were my blanket that i'd bought from the jerusalem shook, my man man shirt, my socks that i'd bought at the flea market. my retainer, the charger to the video camera, and a couple of CF cards for my camera. also my phone. total fucking bummer. the pizza guy gave us a mini for free. then we walked down the road to see if the thieves had realized there was nothing of value in the bags and ditched them. no luck. roni picked us up on the road and took us home. the guys felt really upset that our shit got jacked. mainly because no one steals at nature parties apparently. well, they did this time. it was our own fault, but it just really feels like i got raped. alli just laughed about it. we'll probably see our shit at a flea market somewhere.

we got home and almost immediately passed out until about 8PM. i woke up and called my dad to see if i could get a new retainer sent to me. i have to call my orthodontist, but he reckons it won't do any good. i need a new toothbrush and toothpaste too. too bad i'm broke. fuck. called naama to see about getting a new phone. she just laughed. we need to get a new camera charger too. buffy and jen walked in as i was making some macaroni and cheese for al and i. we hung out and watched lucky number slevin. or the end of it. not a bad movie. rayna made a video of all the ISC people and it made me realize how special everything is that we're donig here. sometimes i forget. we retreated back to our room to watch darjeeling limited. i really could watch that movie over and over. we passed out once it was over after i made some significant progress on this here blog. art conspiracy was last night. i hope it went well. it makes me remember last year and how cold and beautiful it was. how everyone i knew at that time was wonderful and creative and amazing and how thankful i am that i still know them. man. if i could be home. i was asked by a very talented photographer to do the photo booth this year. i had to regretfully turn her down. next year.

this morning we woke up and felt bad so we didn't go to ulpan. i don't think we'll have it much longer. it's become more of a hassle than a privelage and that's a shame. it's my own fault. i'm an asshole. kinda. made some toast and jono came to surprise us. i took a walk with him and my coffee cup. came back and hung out with al and jen, watching the end of point break. that's my favorite part. and the only part i've ever seen. that wave man. righteous. just kidding. anyway, i teach more photography today and i'll play soccer with al and the kids. too bad i can't brush my teeth. ha. talk soon.

love,

sally