Here is a list of things that I might not have mentioned quite yet:
1. My roommate abbreviates Shalom to "sloms!" Taking into consideration that shalom is hello AND goodbye, I have already far exceeded my cute abbreviation quota for the year.
2. I can buy an artichoke for 1 NIS. For all you keeping score at home, that's twenty five cents.
3. Today in Hebrew my teacher asked what the family in the picture was doing at the picnic. I wanted to say drinking (shotim) but instead I said going the the bathroom (shirutim). And then I accidentally apologized in Spanish.
4. I have been proposed to at least five times since I have been here. One guy even gave me his card.
5. The pilates teacher stopped the entire class to tell me do to something different (in Hebrew). So i smiled and nodded and moved my legs a little. Then she said some more stuff to me and I smiled and moved my legs a little more. And then she came over to me and physically raised my arms up and rolled her eyes. All the middle aged women in pilates seem to think this was one of the funnier things they had ever seen (maybe it was- the people who go to these classes aren't exactly a barrel of laughs).
6. Somehow I am the "kid who matches his kippa to his tshirt every day" 's new best friend. (he even has pink and purple).
7. You can get a lot of peanut butter out of a jar that is "empty"
8. My class, the "you have never seen Hebrew before in your life" class is somehow passing the "I learned how to read Hebrew for my Barmitsva" class. It's causing a lot of tension (and confusion on my part)
9. One of the three showers on our floor doesn't have a shower head, so its basically like using a hose to shower. Admittedly, this is kinda a pain in the butt, but no enough to not use it. Especially when everyone else would rather wait for the other two showers than just deal with it. So I use it. And some one asked me how I could do such a thing. I said it was like taking a shower in a waterfall. And then everyone present stared at me like I was crazy and spent the next fifteen minutes telling me all the ways in which it was NOT AT ALL like a waterfall.... Yea. I know.
10. Jerusalem is awesome.
I'll write more soon, but I have a Hebrew test tomorrow and have to study. Love you all.
picture #2: You are the greatest.
ReplyDeletepicture # 3: He is the greatest.
1. she's tots the grtst, obvs.
2. i apologize for the awful joke i made about 1.
3. that is AFV in writing.
4. CARD GUY= KEEPER
5. we do pilates in our living room, but 1-all of us end up sitting and watching by the end/at various points.
6. JEALOUS...if you black out, will he bloody his shirt to make it match the kippas?
7. you were always the resourceful one
8. i was trying to think of some comeback about how you're so much cooler than them, but bar mitzvahs are sweet. to go to, maybe not to have (i wouldn't know...i didn't have one). they're a lot of work during a very tumultuous time (PUBERTY) so at least you only have to deal with learning hebrew and not the frightening and unexpected changes going on in your body too (maybe?)
9. i think that shower sounds really really fun. and i am proud of you for not being a wimp.
10. SO ARE YOU.
good luck on your test. i cleaned (...am cleaning) my room.