I’m on the bus staring out of the window as we make our way to Tel Aviv from Haifa. We just rode up to the top of Mt. Giboa, where we did some cliff rappelling and extreme jeep driving. We wake up at 7 AM and have breakfast. The same […]
Stooped over, sweaty, and with a burning headache do I find myself sitting here on the stoop out front of my room. I’ve finally found my pen, hiding somewhere on the ground. Last night I wrote while smoking cigarettes with some people, and the pen must have slipped out of […]
Shabbat, that centerpiece of Jewish life. It marks the seventh day of the Jewish week and the period of rest. For observant Jews it also means a period of not using electronics or doing anything related to work. This goes as far as not ripping toilet paper squares–single square dispensers […]
0700. I’m woken up by my roommates Omri and Andrew. A nice Israeli breakfast spread is waiting for us in this multi purpose room on the kibbutz. “Eat a lot! You won’t get to eat again for a while!” shouts Mickey. I ate eggs and some Israeli assorted salad items, […]
It was 5 A.M. when we got in and I could smell the desert air as I walked off the plane. It’s always interesting how you can sense the different air. It smelt like sand. Deplaning complete. Getting across the border was a joke. We got our shit off the […]