Bass.

So tonight is/was my last real night in Israel. My last night is tomorrow, which will be spent at the kibbutz not doing anything. Jesus Christ, this past week has been excruciating. If I thought folding towels was horrible, being a Zionist saying bye to some of my favorite places in Israel is like torture.

Tonight I hung out on Ben Yehuda Street for what will likely be the last time until maybe two years from now. I watched a group of religious boys yell/sing/jump around. It was awesome. I got it on tape, but I need a cable from home before I can upload it from my American phone. I also managed to catch on tape an Asian Christian group singing and a bunch of Jews were just standing around staring at them. Hahahahah, it was great.

I also got shwarma from my favorite place. Yes, I have a favorite shwarma place in Israel, how cool is that? Between eating and watching the guys jump around, I walked down to the Old City for a bit. I thought I’d go down to the wall again, but I ended up just staying up near a balcony near the left entrance (the more hidden one) and staring at it from a distance.

At this point, being in Israel has just become unbearably sad for me because I know I’m going home for a long time, and so I just want to go home already and get it over with. Yeah, I’m excited about seeing my friends, my family and my dogs,* but still….

*Actually, I think I’m most excited about seeing my dogs. This is not meant to be insulting to friends or family, but think of it this way: when I left, I was able to explain to my family exactly why I was leaving, when I was thinking of coming back, and how to contact me. With the dogs, you just leave, and they don’t understand where their human friend went, and it’s just so fucking sad for them and it makes me sad to think about it.


Hey though. Almost two full years after I decided I had to make aliyah, I came to Israel for the first time. So I guess two full years after trying to make aliyah I can successfully make aliyah? There was no logic in that, but oh well.


GOAAAAAALLLLLLL FOR ISRAEL!!!! (Sorry, I’m watching the Swiss/Israeli World Cup Qualifier and Switzerland was up by two until now.)



Good news? I may have gotten a job tutoring a 10th grader back in the Midwest. Awesome? Pretty much.

Also, today I caught a bit of a football game involving Ohio State (who is in my school’s football league), and I gotta admit: I got kind of excited about going back to school and football games and school colors and shit like that.

More good news? So I’m taking a car to school, and I thought it was going to have to be my grandpa’s old one….but my parents have decided to spoil me and let me take the nice one I shared with my brothers during high school. Which has quite possibly the bitchinest sound system. Bass is extremely important to me, and Jesus Christ, with the bass in that car your ass shakes. Like, you could be parked with the music on, drinking a glass of water, and the water would do that rumbling thing like in Jurassic Park. When your driving you could have the music on pretty low, but the bass is so strong that you feel like your heart is malfunctioning, like the bass is overriding your heartbeat. I’m exaggerating only slightly. But the best part of all of this? I’ve tested it, because I hate those people who put the bass on so loud in their cars that you can feel it from your car, and for some reason the bass in my car is contained to my car! How bitchin’ is that???

I really wanted to take my stereo to college because the bass on my computer is total shit, but my mom doesn’t want me to for some reason. But Jesus Christ, if I have this car…….I…..I……there are no words.

Fuck, have I really become so shallow that I’m talking about a car?

Within seconds of posting this, we got a TIED SCORE, BABY!!! 2-2!