i all of a sudden want a glazed donut sooooooo bad.

anyways, today was one of those days where i don't actually talk to anybody (except to ask for directions, which i hate doing but is more than neccessary here).
i got myself to the jeruselum bus mall looking for a market that meytal told me about which im pretty sure is not the market i found since it was way too practical. just a bunch of vegtables and linens and kitchen things.
i was still really sleepy from the bus ride, and from getting more than enough sleep the night before, so i set out looking for a shaded bench to pass out on. i eventually found this really long park with lots of trees and i spent like two hours there doing alot of nothing. can't remeber the last time i had so much time to waste in a park. it was nice though
trying to decide if i should go back to tel aviv tomorrow (cause this place is kind of boring and awkward) or the next day (to save money on a hostle), but then the problem is i would be spending about 13 hours in the airport.
all of this is no consequence to all of you. this is just what happens when i have something on my mind and i start to right.

i'm sure you're biting your nails waiting to find out which i decide so i'll let you know as soon i know!

i made an oopsie

t'was my first major traveling error.
i was getting myself to Jeruselum from Jaffa. Took the bus to the Train station. Got a ticket to Jeruselum, got to the correct platform. A train pulls up and we all get on it, I turn to the woman next to me and say "Yarusheliem? is this going to Jeruselum?" She was smiling and nodding, but i should've realized that she was smiling and nodding even before i posed the question.
I sat down and think, 'ok if this train leaves at 1 then it's the right train'. a couple minutes later it starts pulling away from the platform and i ask the girl across from me who had just gotten off the phone "this train is going to Jeruselum yes?"
she looks up with wide eyes, smiling and shaking her head "lo"
"noOO? fuck!"
the couple across from us are very helpful and speak perfect english. They tell me to get off at the last stop in Modine and then take the bus to Jerusleum from there.
When I get off the train I can't get out of the station because it requires you to resubmit your ticket into the machine things and it keeps rejecting my ticket becuase it's for Jerulsum and not Modine. I pace back a forth a bit and finally get a coffee shop girl to let me out threw her store (really bad planning on the israeli train station). so i cross the street to the mall because the man on the train told me that the bus mall is on the other side. i'm approaching the security check and i step in gum (not even lying, this is just when i have to laugh). Security checks are a bitch with all of my luggage and this is just the first of 3 i had to go threw today.
get on the weird little bus to Jerulsem and try really hard not to fall asleep. Get off at the bus mall and get on a bus to the Malha mall which is right by the train station where my cousin Michael is meeting me.
I've stopped trying to be frugal, it's just not a possibility. I keep leaving things unzipped and dropping coins, probably lost at least 20 sheckle that way.

so now i'm in Michaels office, killing time until he gets off. it's airconditioned and the sweat is drying (TMI?). Michael is really nice and so are two of his sons that i've met so far. one is an architecture major here.

i'm suprisingly comfortable with them concidering i've never met any of them before.
now to finish my bagel and call delta (7th time today)

ToDay bea And I walked along the mediterranean. The water was sooo nice but it was infested with jellyfish so we couldn't really go in. Saw a couple jelly fish which was neat. We had falaffle and I finished mine on the roof of our hostle whilst reading eat pray love. That book is so whiney. It's like something I could write.
that gives me an idea
anyways then I noticed that was sun was setting and so I grabbed bea and sped walked to the edge off the old town looking over the sea. U know I'm a sucker for sunsets.
Tomorrow I'm getting myself back to jerusalem to stay with my cousins who I've never met. They seem nice and accomodating so I'm pretty sure I'm excited. I feel like I'm goin to meet my host family or something.
Now I'm going to go wander with my new friend Zoe, and bea most likely.
Laila tov!

Loose in the homeland

Ok so birthright is officially over now. I managed to extend my ticket until the 3rd of July and will be calling delta like mad to try and get a latter ticket. (I'm sooooo sry meytal!!!!)
so last night I stayed over at the staffers inlaws house with six other girls who were extending. Today we took the train and a cab to get to old Jaffa to arrive here in our beautiful hostel! I was pretty uneasy about the situation until we opened the doors to the hostel. It's so cool, old and European. Right now bea and I are sitting out on the balcony I wish I could show u a picture.
So the only downfall to this sitution is the girls we're with. I've never felt such high school bitchyness is all my life. The leader of the pack is Becky and she has frizzy red hair which is always in a bun and she's very high strung. She's developed a twitch in both her eyes. Also there's Kayla who is a tan valley girl (actually from the valley) who works at american apperal. The other two are nice enough and I'm sure everything will be fine. It's just a funny situation.
K well I'm happy to be away from birthright and seeing things on my own. We're gonna go get dinner now. But free wi fi! So I'll be back

So I have a ticket out of Israel on July 3rd. I'll hang around with bea and then stay with family for a couple of days. I'm just doing wahtever I can at this point to be here when meytal comes. If anyone knows someone who works for delta I need all the help I can get! But I'm trying to make lemonaide out of lemons over here. I've never been so good at that as u know.
Today we in tiberias again, went on a hike in an orchard went rafting on the Jordan river and then had a dancing hookah party outside with a couple other groups. It was pretty sweet, it was very oregony today. Rafting was a comedy of errors I was paddling in the back and we kept running into trees and were the last people to finish by like 15 minutes. Got a nice shoulder and thigh tan going, so I got that going for me. Erica and I saw a ghost inthe hotel (maybe probably) it's to hard to explain. Remind me to tell u later.

The dead sea

Today we woke up in the bedouin camps at 3 35 and hiked up Masada . Then we went to the dead sea, kindof a horrible expirience. Not so much the sea itself (although it did burn like he'll) but the reosrt was hot and smelled of sulfur and was filled with big old Israeli ladies who harrased us for not eatig kosher. So now were in tiberius not really sure what's going on especially with be extended travel plans but yea. We are sitting Around in the lobby of our hotel watching MTV and talking with some of our Israeli soldier friends.Typing on the itouch is hard

oh vey!

i'm in israel!!

sorry, i know travel blogs are only fun when people actually update them, but internet here is soooo expensive. 18 sheckles a minute! ($3.50)
i wanted to come write with new of plans but now i'm in a tizzy because i still dont know when i'm returning and i'm just really trying to fight the urge not to complain.
so anywaaaaayyyys,
tomorrow i ride a camel! we're going into the dessert and then hiking and lying in the dead sea, it's gettin pretty exciting.
my miserly ways are not working out so well here, with the expensive internet and the food is not very cheap (getting pretty sick of fallafel) and i had to barter for a necklace that i can't quite figure out if it was a good buy or not...
but today we went to the holocaust museum, it was beautiful, your architects should look it up (the one in jeruselum)
yea i know lots of spelling mistakes, i'm too anxious to figure out the right click on this this so you'll all just have to deal,

well i must away!

So I'm writing this on my itouch so please excuse the (more than usual) spelling and grammar mistakes.
Today we had plans to go to grenich village, china town and little Italy. We unfortunatley only made it as far as the village cause we met leahs boyfriend and his friend at a bar to have a drink and watch the soccer game. They had had quite a few and when we got back to the friends appatment the bf was too drunk to move so we basically sat around for a while while he slept it off. No harm done though. We walked around soho, I drank some burbon when no one was watching so I wasn't hard to please.
This morning we went to that really huge cathedral (the one u told me about mom...and also mom, while I've got u here, disregard the burbon part)
typing on this thing is making my forearms hurt. I leave for Israel at 7 pm tomorrow so this may ne the last of Internet for a while
love u all!!!!!

Ok so...

I am starting a travel blog so I can be super cool.

No really it's so that I can update you about my experiences and not have to share it with everyone on facebook who may or may not be interested.

I'm sort of in a hurry now though. Bea just got out of the shower and I don't know how long she's gonna take getting ready. I harassed her to get up so it wouldn't be fair of me to keep her waiting.

Yesterday we went to Times Square and from there we were trying to get to Central Park. We wandered into Toy r Us to escape the beggars and hustlers and we tried to ask an employee which way to Central Park. The first guy didn't know, which seemed really strange since we knew it was only about a 1/4 mile away. So then we simply asked him which way was north. He didn't know that either! So then we asked another employee, a 40 year old blonde woman. "You know.. i've lived here all my life and I can't tell ya" She didn't know which way was north either! She then asked her manager and he pointed us in the right direction.

So yea. I'm gonna try and keep this as honest as possible, as if it were my my journal. I just don't want to offend anyone.

Namely my travel partner.

: )