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There are so many things to write about...I don't think I want to write about my experiences right now...I need pictures to go along with them. Plus you need to give an amazing weekend some time to settle before you blog, otherwise your weekend becomes more about the blogging than the experience.

Anyway, currently very disturbed over Hebrew University student being stabbed in the face today, by three palestinians. For the record...number of stone throwers the other night...three...In any case I was so glad to hear Aria speak his mind on Shabbos about the war in Gaza. Being a soldier in several wars...man the dude has some stories to tell. He looks like such a teddy bear though. Then you remember he is a soldier, when you see a pistol on his belt. And you are like...hmmm...teddy bear well armed with Oozi. Fumoffu.

Again...random tangent. Some images that really stuck in my head was the abnormality of the world they walk into when they go into Gaza. The children are sitting outside. Some were waving and smiling. Meanwhile, they write down how many soldiers, tanks, etc. are coming in. Man...anywho...I have tons of pictures that I want to post but it would take up my whole blog. Right now I am slightly frustrated with Hebrew....it takes me FOREVER to conjugate things in my head...to remember words...so I can't really speak at all...but when I listen...I understand a little, but like 5 minutes later. Every word has a million variations! How is a table female??? I don't know. I know English makes a lot less sense than Hebrew, but I wish I just knew the language anyway. ATVing, zipling, jeeping are all really cool, but I have discovered the more amazing the experience, the less you can talk about it. Somehow the stupid insignificant stuff make more interesting stories. Like the little play in Hebrew class today. It was so adorable...everyone in my class was like, "OMG it was like totally for 5 year olds!...It was so dumb!" I was thinking, seriously people get over yourselves, it was funny. LAUGH. And you wonder why people pander down to your intelligence level..hmm...maybe cuz you can't make an in depth play with a vocabulary bank of 200 words. Honestly. I wanted to bonk some people on the head. Do you really need Cirque de soleil to enjoy yourself? Maybe I am annoyed because I know that in another scenario I would be up on that stage trying to make people enjoy themselves against their will. I miss my theatre =P. Again, seriously off topic. So another shabbos in Jerusalem and I went to the western wall and a sephardic shul. The sephardic shul was sooooo beautiful. The man's voice seriously made me melt. It was the most beautiful crying, singing, ancient like voice I have ever heard. Something in my heart went 'Moshadlfkav." Need to hear that again. On another note, I am actually feeding myself with real food. Speaking of real food, I am about to go shopping with my roomate. (who is seriously awesome)...when I think of Israeli woman..she is exactly what I pictured. All my roomies are amazingly sweet. I really have someone upstairs to thank for my permanent roommate goodluck. =)

Tammy Weekly. Edition 1

Ok. So I figure instead of barraging people with facebook posts about Israel....so if people want to find out how I am doing, they can just check this thing. Anywho, so I went to Arad this weekend and went hiking in the Judean desert. First thing we get there and its pretty bright sun so sunglasses have become my new permenant facial attachment in Israel. The whole place is so blindingly beautiful...you have to wear sunglasses everywhere...even inside. We went up so high into the mountains that we ended up climbing down ropes and ladders to get to the bottom. It was pretty cool, since we were repelling off the wall using nothing but rope and strangely enough it wasn't so scary. Granted I didn't look out...but that was rather hard anyway. Anyway so it was a really long hike...pretty incredible, so I decided to go for a tiny walk, as a breather almost absorbing the rolling desert mountains surrounding me...until I see a sign in all three languages english,hebrew, and arabic...DANGER LAND MINES!!...I am like...ok. Turning around...now. I wish I had this blog earlier so I could post stuff about Sderot, but I guess I will later. When we went to the youth hostel in Arad I was so tired, after the shabbot meal and activity, I passed out for a good 13 hours. It was lovely. The next day we went walking to different places in Arad, of course avoiding all the spectacular views and desert. So me and andy went for a walk on our own. This time, I am happy to say, we were not pelted with rocks by Palestinians, unlike a couple days ago when were were walking around our university, and three palestinians guys about our age, threw a rock at us, hitting andy in the shoulder. Yeah...just got here. So anyway, we walk out into the desert in Arad, and it felt like the sound of music, except without the rolling green hills, but dunes of sand. Absolutely breath taking. I couldn't stay away from there, so after having a stuffing, delicious meal at the hostel, and playing an unreasonable amount of taboo (which I happen to stink at but really like), and israeli jeopardy, I went out to the desert again on my own. I walked on a bit farther into it, and being the only person for a ways, was pretty thrilling. I sang out there for like 20 minutes until I had to go back with the sunset in time for havdalah. And on the hill in front of me I saw antelope, like 5 or 6 or them running about on the hill. Truly incredible. I picked up shells on the desert floor, which was littered with them and took them back to show to people. I will have to show people when I come back. I guess that's it for now.