Rest and Jerusalem

Again sorry this week has been crazy- I'll try to get better for my last weekish

Saturday: The day of rest! I basically didn't leave the apartment until Saturday night. I slept, hand-washed some clothes, slept more and just relaxed. That night I went out with two of my apartment mates into Tel Aviv.

Sunday: Sunday was a short day at work because our group was going to Jerusalem for the afternoon/evening. Sally was in Tel Aviv for the day and I wanted to see her but it got really complicated with her group and everything. So after work I headed back to Bat Yam to meet the group to go to Jerusalem. Our first stop there was the Bazlel Art School. While it was very interesting, I wasn't feeling the best so I left the group and headed to Baka where there Jerusalem Amirim group was and my whole group would be later to take a nap. After I woke up the Bat Yam and Jerusalem group had a little get to know you thing. The 4 weekers from J-lem had just arrived but I still knew all the 8 weekers. After the get to know you games we went to Ben Yehuda for dinner; I got my ring fixed while I was there. When we were leaving I ran into Netta, my staff from my last Israel trip. He was there with his current group. We then went to this modern dance thing- which personally I wasn't a huge fan of. I thought that it was a little too out there, but then again modern dance isn't really my thing.

Monday: Monday I went to work and also had to leave a little early because I was meeting Emily in Jerusalem for a USAID meeting. It was a goodbye party for the head of the USAID- West Bank/Gaza branch. It was very interesting as it was my first meeting of those sorts. After the meeting Emily and her boyfriend took me around Jerusalem a little to some overlooks to see the differences between how to Israelis and Palestinians live in relation to East and West Jerusalem. It was pretty awful to see it all- the Israeli government and making the Palestinians pay but they have no water, no trash collection, and the roads aren't kept up.

Tuesday: Tuesday at work was pretty crazy. We have a lot of reports for USAID due extremely soon. Emily showed me how to fill out a PMP form and we went through all the objectives and what not. I still haven't gone over my grant but that's because there is no due date for that. After work I went to Jaffa to meet Cassandra, Rachel H, and Toby to go to the shuk there. It was about to close but I still managed to spent a little too much money. I bought some presents for people and of course some stuff for me. Earlier I had bought myself a new pair of Naots, they are super comfy and will be great for going out. After the shuk we went to Dr. Shokshuka which is a really good shokshuka restaurant in Jaffa. We then went back to Bat Yam to get ready to go out- Gal's friend does PR for this club and he got us all in for the night. It was a good time.

I'm going to post the rest of the week later when I have more time because it's more interesting then the day-to-day normal stuff.