Its been a month...

It has been a month since we first arrived in Israel and began our journey with OTZMA.  I can't believe how quickly this month has gone by!  This week has not been too exciting, but its a nice change of pace.  It was a short week this week because our Sukkot break began yesterday and we will not be back until next Sunday.  I'm excited, although I am not sure for what.  I haven't really made any plans to do anything and I am thinking I will just take it day by day.  I would love to go to Tel-Aviv for a day or two and I am thinking that I will visit my family in Ofakim as well.  I really need to study my Hebrew more often so I think I should be spending my time focusing on that.

Shauna, Madeleine, Lauren and I :)

Yesterday and today were pretty relaxing.  We went out Tuesday night and partied (maybe a little too much...) and I slept in so late on Wednesday. I'll throw up a few pictures from Tuesday night because they are classic.  Don't judge.

Alex and Vanessa's GIGANTIC sushi boat

 I think I didn't wake up until after 12 on Wednesday.  Then we just hung out most of the day, played on the internet, relaxed and eventually Alex, Rachel, Vanessa and I went out to dinner.  We had a really nice meal at the Yoko sushi place nearby which we all thoroughly enjoyed.  I got Chicken Bangkok and it was really good!  Alex and Vanessa split the most gigantic thing of sushi I have ever seen.  I even tried some Sushi.  Not my favorite thing in the world... but not nearly as bad as the caviar I tried!!

My being fed caviar face

My Bangkok boat

Today was a good day too.  I spent the morning (or afternoon... whatever) cleaning the apartment that I share with Tracy, Rebecca and Arielle.  It was finally to my satisfaction around 4 and I headed down to the beach.  By the time I was ready to go to the beach, the group that had gone earlier in the day was on their way back.  I hung out with Jason and Austen for a while and when they left relaxed and watched the sunset while listening to some chill music.

I was in peace for a while when some random dude approached me and gave me a rock (not the good kind - just a plain old rock).  This led to some story in broken English that I didn't understand which led to him trying to date me.  He didn't seem to understand why I thought 43 is a bit too old for me... so he explained that his last girlfriend was a 23 year old Japanese girl, as if this was supposed to encourage me to take him up on his offer.  The conversation was interesting though and I made it very clear that he had no shot.  The sunset was beautiful and even though I didn't get to enjoy it the way I wanted, I still enjoyed it.