i love love tel aviv!

this weekend, my friends sarah, alexis, mia and i took the train down to tel aviv after i got out of class on friday. we got there around 230 and checked into our hostel. it was a last minute trip, so they didnt have any rooms. we had to sleep on the roof. we shoved our stuff in a locker and hit the town before everything closed for shabat. i bought a pretty dress for 40 nis ( about 10$) and some presents for y'all. then we went back to the hostel to get ready for dinner. after dinner we walked around a bit, sarah's friend picked us up and took us to a really cool bar.

the bar was called the english pub, and we stayed for about an hour, but then the power went off for some reason, and i was tired and they wanted to party some more, so mia and i went back to the hostel, and sarah, alexis, and sarah's friend went to some other bars. mia and i had a long interesting conversation on the roof, we met some other people sleeping up there. everyone was really cool. then sarah and alexis came back and we hung out with them, a boy from toronto named mike, a boy from cali named ian, a kiwi named john and a spanish guy who was living in germany named andre (i think?). i liked talking to him. he lives in berlin and loves it. i talked to him for a while and told him i was going there for a few months after this. it was nice talking to them cause i realized that i knew soooo much more about this country and so much hebrew and so much more than they did. i can tell ive been here a while. and it was cool saying 'oh i live near haifa' when they ask if i knew anything about haifa. at about 3 am, alexis draged me from the hostel with a few of our new found friends, and we went swimming in the sea. it was GREAT. it was sooooo warm, and there were these planes that looked like big yellow stars from far away that kept flying in. then we went back to the hostel, showered, and fell asleep. at 7am, the lovely sun woke us up cause we were soooo hot and there were all these flies (the flies in this country are the most obnoxious flies and the most plentiful thing here. i HATE them) that were landing and crawling all over my face and legs and it was awful. so we got up and went downstairs to get some breakfast, which was just a piece of bread and butter. i fell asleep on the couch watching planet earth. at around 10, we went to get real breakfast, i got a lovely salad with egg, tomatoes, cream cheese, and other salady stuff. it was really good. after that we went to the beach. we got there at 1130 and left around 715. it was the most beautiful beach i have ever been to. the water was warm, the sand was soft. there were these jetty things, a bunch of rocks in a line in the ocean to block the waves and make them less intense. we swam out to them, and walked on them for a bit, then just floated in the ocean, and slept on the beach. we saw the sun set over the ocean. there were some pretty kites flying all day, and there were so many people were playing beach tennis type game, where they have wooden paddles and a ball and they hit it to eachother. it sounded like drums playing music. it was really pretty.

we took the 1st train home, at 9pm and hung out and went to bed early. today i had to work, which i really didnt want to do so i took a nap in the middle of cleaning.