Almost the weekend, In Israel!
Everything has been going well the last few days at work. The people are very nice and extremely helpful. I think that they are suprised by the amount of information that I know already. I think at this point that I have learned enough to be scared, because there is so much more information that I need to know. The one major thing that I have learned is that I will need to learn hebrew. There is no way in this company - that I will be able to understand the conversations that go on without it. While everyone speaks english, unless the conversation directly involves me they generally speak in hebrew.
I posted a few pictures on Picasa with stuff I took at the beach (which I can see from my hotel balcony) last Saturday.
I was planning on going to Jerusalem this weekend - but freaking President Bush is in the country to try to "make peace" or whatever; and he is in Jerusalem - and since there are many places that he will not be able to be transported to - he can only walk, and the fact that Al-Qaeda said that they should greet bush with bombs and booby-trapped cars instead of flowers and applause - doesn't make the situation any better. Basically it means that Jerusalem will be shut down until he leaves on Friday sometime. So I'm thinking that I'll go do something else on Friday - and then go to Jerusalem on Saturday. Tomorrow is the equivalent of Friday here in Israel - because the work week is Sun-Thurs due to Shabbott.
I tried a traditional Israel food today - shawarma. It was delicious. It's basically some chipped meat inside of a small pita, then you can put some toppings like hummus, vegetables, pickled cabbage (disgusting - don't try it in Korean, Japanese, or Middle Eastern food), and of course hot sauce. It was delicious. The only odd thing was that I also got a can of coke- but there was no tab that you could open it with. It was just tab-less. It kind of explains why you always get coke in the bottle when you order it from a restaurant. So strange.
Because of the kosher laws the restaurants are quite different here. Most will either serve meat or cheese - but not both. So there are many vegetarian restaurants, and restaurants that just serve cheese. There are also a lot of shops that cary things like drinks, chips, snacks etc - which always sell fresh fruit as well, like massive counters of fresh fruit - with a few other things lining the shelves. There are tons of these places - and they don't seem to sell that much - they are not busy.
There are just some things about this culture that I don't think I will ever understand.
I posted a few pictures on Picasa with stuff I took at the beach (which I can see from my hotel balcony) last Saturday.
I was planning on going to Jerusalem this weekend - but freaking President Bush is in the country to try to "make peace" or whatever; and he is in Jerusalem - and since there are many places that he will not be able to be transported to - he can only walk, and the fact that Al-Qaeda said that they should greet bush with bombs and booby-trapped cars instead of flowers and applause - doesn't make the situation any better. Basically it means that Jerusalem will be shut down until he leaves on Friday sometime. So I'm thinking that I'll go do something else on Friday - and then go to Jerusalem on Saturday. Tomorrow is the equivalent of Friday here in Israel - because the work week is Sun-Thurs due to Shabbott.
I tried a traditional Israel food today - shawarma. It was delicious. It's basically some chipped meat inside of a small pita, then you can put some toppings like hummus, vegetables, pickled cabbage (disgusting - don't try it in Korean, Japanese, or Middle Eastern food), and of course hot sauce. It was delicious. The only odd thing was that I also got a can of coke- but there was no tab that you could open it with. It was just tab-less. It kind of explains why you always get coke in the bottle when you order it from a restaurant. So strange.
Because of the kosher laws the restaurants are quite different here. Most will either serve meat or cheese - but not both. So there are many vegetarian restaurants, and restaurants that just serve cheese. There are also a lot of shops that cary things like drinks, chips, snacks etc - which always sell fresh fruit as well, like massive counters of fresh fruit - with a few other things lining the shelves. There are tons of these places - and they don't seem to sell that much - they are not busy.
There are just some things about this culture that I don't think I will ever understand.
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