Hi all!!! Hope you're enjoying shabbos and yomtov 😊
I'll give a little recap of everything I've done this week so far.
Sunday and Monday morning I spent with MTA, officially concluding our pesach seminar that lasted 2 weeks. Over that 2 weeks we did lots of hiking in the north, seeing cool archeology sites ceasarea, going to aqua-cef on the water in tiveria (so much fun omg- it was an inflatable water park over the kinneret), and of course the seder. Overall I had a really great time with everyone from the 4 places (harova, gush, eretz) and made lots of new friends.
From Monday evening to thursday night I was in amirim with the fam, and they really took care of me bh. It was nice to be around fam again. It was also rlly fun hanging out with all the cousins my age (heidi, alma, nahar) and meeting their boyfriends/friends lol. One of the days i went to krayot (near haifa) to a cute coffee shop with heidi and her friends, and another day went to Haifa. t There, we went to the shuk which was full of old and cool artifacts, and a hugeee thrift shop that literally did not end. I didn't even buy anything it was way too overwhelming.
There was a whole huge meshugas on Thursday night trying to get on my bus from amirim to jeru. They decided to take me to meron to catch a bus, because the first one didnt stop for me when i waited on the side of the highway (outside amirim) for it. Ended up pushing my way through all the chareidis to get a spot on the bus to jeru. was even better finding a seat next to a normal American girl in her 20s. Then the chaos started. This נהג guy wouldn't drive off because there were more people than seats on the bus. nobody was budging or doing anything about it and the driver was just getting angrier, and everyone was getting stressed. so, the American and i got up and started explaining to these chareidis what was happening (in broken hebrew) because I dont think they were getting it. after over 20 mins of waiting finally we left, because a nice person got off, and there were enough seats. I'm not happy with the chareidi's. If they claim to be so jewish then where's the hakarat hatov and middot?
After arriving to kims at 12am, I slept a good 9 hours and had my daily brek of matzah and cheese. I then went out to yaffo/ben yehuda/the shuk to get some things. Daniella (their daughter) joined me a bit after, and we went shopping for flowers, wine, and we each found pretty yomtov clothes. Then met up with my seminary friends down yaffo, and planned to meet up with Mia, but didn't end up happening. Seeing her on Sunday though :) shabbos comes in less than an hour, so going to get ready now. I rate israel 11/10 I love this place. Can I move here?
Love and miss you all a lot xxxx
Love Hannah
First pic is me, heidi, and her friends Dariyah waiting with me in meron for the bus with all the chareidis. What an experience.
Second pic is Daniella's and i lunch today- which was suprisngly yummy for KLP and no kitniyot. it's so hard to find food here thats kitniyot free! my go to snack food has been dates (I found such good ones)
