Friday april 23

Not much of a week this week because we had off monday and tuesday. Just had class on wednesday and thats about it. Thursday had a meeting at the Rape Crises Center. I dont remember if I talked about this before but we're hosting an EVent on May 13. Part of our intrnship was planning and hosting an event to bring in money to the center. So we decided that in honor of the womans rape crises center, we'd keep the theme of womans empowerment going and host a "Sadie Hawkens" semi formal for the end of the Rothberg semester. Its always a ladys choice--- is our logo. So we rented out this special club on campus that hosts fundraising events for free and we asked 2 of the students who are djs to volunteer to do dj. Its going to be at 9:00 on Thursday May 13th. Its a semi formal. We're going o have champaigne and hopefully some desserts. We're not allowed to spend any money whatosever so its a little frustrating because we have to rely on donations and we dont speak hebrew so its a pain but we;re trying. We're starting to sell tickets this week. So at this meeting we discussed some more things and worked on the decorations. Again- they wont let us spend any money, which we're all mad about, so we have to use the few resources they have at the center for decorations. They have all these old pairs of ugly ugly ugly bright colored cloth pants that they sell at their events sometimes. No one buys them because they are ugly so they ar eours to make decorations. We literally sat there for an hour cutting up these pairs of pants and trying to make flowers--- they came out so ugly, we're all so mad! Then tonight we had to go to this womens empowerment art show put on by the rape crises center in Jerusalem. So all of us interns went to that. It was a bunch of young girls that go to art school, they made womens art using phoography, paper machey, paint, clay etcx... So we all went....


The twins are gone with their parents this weekend and most people are away. Lauren and her boyfriend, who just finished his semester up in London, went to Italy for a week. They left yesterday, thursday, and then will be back next thursday. He is fllying back to Israel with her and is staying for 10 days. Im very very jealous! Most other people went away this weekend. My friend, Rachel Fogel, from USY and my meor trip is coming on Monday. She is staying with me for 2 weeks and we have a lot of adventures we want to go on so I am trying to get as much work as I can this weekend so I dont have to worry about it when shes here...!! Rosie has a lot of work too so instead of going away for the weekend, we decided to do a day trip to Tel Aviv today- friday. Since the weather wasnt super warm today, we decided to make it a shopping day. We leave here at around 930, took the bus to the central bus station and took the bus to Jerusalem. It was so easy-- the whole thing took like an hour. On tuesdays and thursday they have an artists market in tel aviv where all these artists come that make jewelery, judaica stuff, clocks, and a nbunch of other things and set up a huge fair of all their stuff. SO we went, it was really really cool. We saw very unique, cool stuff. I bought a chamsa necklace that is very very different from anything ive seen. We spent a lot of time there. it was a realllllllllllly nice day out-- nice and sunny, not too hot but warm. THen we walked to Shankin street which is known for its clothing stores. We went in and out of almost eveyr store on the street. I wasnt impressed. The clothes were soooo weird. Israelis dress very weird but especially in tel aviv because its so trendy. Its a lot of 80's things like flowers and colored jeans. Not really my style. I tried some funky things on but it was just too weird for me. Then we went for lunch at a cafe and I found my yogurt place that i was obsessed withhhhhhhhh in Eilat!! Its plain yogurt, like ice cream, and they put alll this fruit on top-its deliciousssssssssssss.... Then we walked through the shuk in tel aviv--- so different then ours in jerusalem. Our shuk is soooo much better. This shuk was pure crap-- lots of shirts, crappy jewelery and judaica stuff junk store, and a few fruit stands but the fruits and veggies looked gross. There is no comparison- ours is better. Then we took the last bus back at 5:00 before shabbat back to Jerusalem. It was a really fun day, we had a lot of fun. I really really like tel aviv-- its a fun hip city with tons to do.

Shabbat was quiet, no ones really around. Me and rosie stayed in to do workk