Tuesday is a beautiful day. I wake up, get on the bus to school, go to tefilah (prayers), and have two Judaics classes. The school day is over at noon. Yes, that's right-- 12:00 PM. Truthfully, I really do love school. Even the super long days. So it's not like it's that big of a deal that Tuesdays end at noon. But, regardless of my enjoyment of school it's always nice to have half a day off of classes.
I tried a new Judaics class today, since the other one just wasn't working out for me, and I really liked it. The Rabbi is, as perfectly described by Rabbi Bryks, a Tzadik (righteous man). His every word and breath leaks knowledge, care for others, and complete awareness of everything within and around him. It's pretty cool. We were assigned this project to spend three hours doing some kind of Chessed (kindness) project like visit people at a hospital, nursing home, old age home, soup kitchen, etc. After we spend the three hours we gotta give a ten-minute presentation about it in class. A.k.a. No biggy. I'm totally down with Chessed for the sake of school, so that's going to be good.
The second class is given by Rabbi Kahn, who is ridiculously knowledgeable and such, and I really like his class. Today it basically hurt my brain because I was a little bit confused and a lot bit processing the information. So before I go to bed tonight I think I'm going to take the liberty to actually review what we went over in class... Weird concept, I know. Haha.
At 12:15 we left on an optional trip to the IDF museum in Tel Aviv. I took a nice nap on the way there, and when we got there I stepped off the bus to a drop-dead gorgeous view of the Medit. Loved it. We had our classic sandwich lunches with a bag of chips, and just hung out as the very very hot sun blessed us all with unnecessary sweat. Despite the sweat, it was a really beautiful place to hang out and eat lunch. So there will be no complaints from me.
The museum was pretty cool. The whole tour aspect got a little discombobulated and all over the place, so I wouldn't say that it was perfect. One of the parts of the museum looked way too familiar to me, which made me think that we for sure went there on our eighth grade trip to Israel. I'm not 100% sure though, so no promises. Overall, it was a cool place and I kinda wish that the tour was a little more put-together/formal so that I could have learned more. It's not really anyone's fault, so whatever.
Afterwards we went to the Shuk Ha'Carmel, which is basically a really huge Pike Place Market with Arab vendors. Haha. I found foil pans at the price of twenty-four for ten shekel (about $2.50) and I basically freaked out. I bought SO many, because hello!!! I haven't seen anything anywhere near that price over here, and I love me some foil pans. I also bought some grapes.
When our Shuk excursion was over we went to the place where the bus was supposed to pick us up, and unfortunately only one bus was there. The majority of people piled into the first bus, while about ten of us stayed back to wait for the very spacious second bus. Annoyingly the second one didn't show up for like ten or fifteen minutes, but on the positive side we had more than enough room to stretch our legs. I napped a little on the bus, which was great. I love how I can pretty much sleep anywhere at any time... It's a great skill that I've acquired over the past couple of months.
Tonight I made another batch of quinoa salad but stupidly forgot that I was out of corn and beans, so it's a little more plain this time. Also, the corn and beans that I had kept for this batch of quinoa turned quite moldy in the fridge which was a very large disappointment.
I'm about to read an article for one of my classes tomorrow, and afterwards go directly to bed without passing go or collecting $200. Ha. That was lame. Anyways, I obviously have a couple of random things to share so here they are:
1) Shout out to Docta J who is helping me out in the best way possible by bringing back to Israel with him a bottle of mousse. Now I'm just trying to figure out what to do until he's back. But that's totally cool because I am so very thankful to him, and I can make it for a week or so. Also, I think it's funny that the mousse has turned into such a saga.
2) Let's talk about how last night I went to dinner at the Kiryat Ono mall, and another exciting bus adventure took place on the way back. I went with Nick and another friend, and as we were exiting the mall the topic of bus adventures was brought up. Of course that topic just had to be brought up. The way the street-crossing was going to work was that we had to cross three different parts of the road. In other words, there would be three different places where we'd have to wait for the little light sign thingy to "say" that we could cross. When we got to the second one and were waiting for cars to not almost hit us, I realized that our bus was rapidly approaching. Then I remembered that the stop is all the way up the street. Then I realized that Israeli bus drivers, unlike Seattle bus drivers, don't even think for half of a second about waiting for running pedestrians. In other words: it was time to run. Despite all those thoughts that happened in my head, I basically instantaneously just bolted. Let's remember that the shoes I was wearing were Adidas sliders which are in no way the best shoes to wear while running. Regardless, like Dori from Finding Nemo, I just kept on running. And we made it! What a relief. Really though, I got quite an adrenaline rush from it.
Okay, people. As it is already a time at which I'd like to be sleeping, I'm going to go ahead and bid you all a good night. Or a good day, for that matter.
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