6 Weeks In

Sunday, July-11-10

Today I had the day off which meant an extra day to my weekend. Sounds pretty sweet, and it was, but it does mean that now I will be doing my 5 shifts/week in four days as oppose to five. Anyways, the weekend was really chill and fun. Went out, spent some time on the beach, slept in, did laundry, bought groceries, and of course watched the soccer. I’m really enjoying the non-tourist side of being in Israel and not trying to think of the next epic adventure. Everyday life has been just as fun, if not more and I couldn’t have asked for a better weekend. Today I also made use of something that I’m not sure we have at home (I could be wrong). I went grocery shopping and while paying I asked for a mishloach. Basically they loaded up my groceries into bins and said they would deliver them within the hour, and they did! For no extra charge. It was awesome and I will definitely be doing that again. Tonight I also ran to the beach entrance nearest to me to watch the sun set and there are some pictures below. I was amazed at the amount of people out biking, running, and walking on the טיילת-tayelet (translates to promenage?). There were so many! Especially for it being a weekday (Sunday is the first day of the week here). Israel may not have gotten the message on smoking just yet, but when it comes to exercising I am impressed.

I think I’ll be heading to bed early tonight since tomorrow morning I have the first of my 3 shifts in two days and 2 of them are night shifts. The מד''א-MDA employees may be used to doing 2 shifts with only 1 shift break in between but me, not so much. I still don’t know how I’m going to manage to get home from the morning shift, eat, maybe sleep, and shower, and be back for 11pm and ready to work the night. Should be interesting and hopefully I’ll get a lot of calls. Tomorrow will also mark 6 weeks into my trip which means I’m just over half way through. It still seems unreal that I’m actually here and I smile every time I think of just exactly where I am in the world.

p.s. Not the clearest day in Tel Aviv but gorgeous none the less.