Obscure things I miss about Eretz Yisrael...
Kippas
Magnum bars
Thinking, "I wonder if those are the Palestinians over in the West Bank"
Having Todd get side-tracked with fun stuff before Archaeology
"This is the Mossad..bye-bye!"
Getting lots of e-mails every week
Going on Masternet and seeing that it was "So-and-so's" birthday on Friday...and on Saturday
Trying to translate shekels into dollars and vice versa
Wearing shorts to class
Wearing rubber flip-flops to class
Riding through Telshe Stone on the way to Jeru
Seeing Elvis Inn and Gimel Gimel
Seeing all the profs' kids
Daniel and Ayelet and their cool family
Shabbat brunch
Visiting four different seas: Red, Dead, Galilee, Mediterranean
Climbing things
Ugiot
Camping out
Hiking
Oily tuna
Grainy hummus
Shaaban
All the different processions in Jeru: Greek Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Coptic
The prayers stuffed into every crack in the Western Wall
Hearing Meno get all excited in his sermons
The Foremans
Seeing machine guns everywhere
Yotvata chocolate milk...from a bag, of course
Pottery and rocks
Shimon Gibson
Roommates
The Miklat
Fiddler on the Roof with everybody
All the weird specimens hanging in the Muslim Quarter
Half-shekel Pita at Damascus Gate
The bullet holes in Zion Gate
Singing in the churches
Finding a good bus buddy
Finding a good bus buddy with good snacks...and notes
Violent rain storms at the moshav
Lightning over the Judean Hill Country
Watching people kiss camels
Sheket!!
Climbing in holes, tombs, tunnels, caves, etc.
Digging in Warren's Shaft
Hezekiah's Tunnel
Dishes
Weird boiled-egg lasagne
Chicken balls
Jackals (?)
Travel/Study Break
Work days
2 comments:
ah, friend, you made me smile and sigh all at the same time. how can something so amazing keep feeling like it was so long ago? is it just me? i wish my brain didn't switch gears so easily...luv ya! how's work and fam and everything goin?
hey Jennica! I like your list... probably cuz I have a similar fondness for the same things! :) Hope you're having a good summer, just wanted to say hi to a fellow IBEXer.
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