[Israel] Bits from a still-tired brain
Mar. 11th, 2007 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidThe short form: there were travel snafus (mostly not mine), but everyone arrived, and Shabbat was pretty good.
I'd forgotten how tiring walking on stone is. I've been walking a lot (today, from Talpiot to Hamelech Felafel, on the corner of King George and Agrippas, then back here, with plans to go see the kallah at the Kotel later, then to the wedding.), getting reacquainted with a city that is still a bit mine, though there are so many changes (mostly of the building more stuff variety). OK, and I still haven't checked how much a bus ride is.
I've run into a couple of people I know, a couple from Cambridge and a guy I thought lived in Cambridge, but apparently that's only 25% of the time; the rest of the time he lives here.
The keyboard here has three alphabets on the main keys: English (caps), Hebrew, and Russian. ("Here," in this case, being the computer room at Beit Shmuel, which is open 24/7, so there may be more posts anon.)
It's been very warm; I got a touch of sunburn yesterday (I can now be called a redneck), and it's very bright again today, definitely T-shirt weather. I would be cooler had I bought sandalim already, but that hasn't happened yet. Tomorrow, I hope (that being the one day that doesn't yet include familial obligations).
I was greatly complimented this morning, as I did a bit of translating for others, that the artisan we were buying stuff from said I sounded Israeli. I, of course, promptly managed to drop into more fragmented sentences. I'm finding myself thinking more in Hebrew, which I didn't expect at all.
I wish I were staying longer.
P.S. I'm not at all caught up reading everyone else's journal, and might not be until I get back. If there's something I need to know, please bring it to my attention.
I'd forgotten how tiring walking on stone is. I've been walking a lot (today, from Talpiot to Hamelech Felafel, on the corner of King George and Agrippas, then back here, with plans to go see the kallah at the Kotel later, then to the wedding.), getting reacquainted with a city that is still a bit mine, though there are so many changes (mostly of the building more stuff variety). OK, and I still haven't checked how much a bus ride is.
I've run into a couple of people I know, a couple from Cambridge and a guy I thought lived in Cambridge, but apparently that's only 25% of the time; the rest of the time he lives here.
The keyboard here has three alphabets on the main keys: English (caps), Hebrew, and Russian. ("Here," in this case, being the computer room at Beit Shmuel, which is open 24/7, so there may be more posts anon.)
It's been very warm; I got a touch of sunburn yesterday (I can now be called a redneck), and it's very bright again today, definitely T-shirt weather. I would be cooler had I bought sandalim already, but that hasn't happened yet. Tomorrow, I hope (that being the one day that doesn't yet include familial obligations).
I was greatly complimented this morning, as I did a bit of translating for others, that the artisan we were buying stuff from said I sounded Israeli. I, of course, promptly managed to drop into more fragmented sentences. I'm finding myself thinking more in Hebrew, which I didn't expect at all.
I wish I were staying longer.
P.S. I'm not at all caught up reading everyone else's journal, and might not be until I get back. If there's something I need to know, please bring it to my attention.