Woke up really early friday morning to go meet Jodi in Tel Aviv and stay with her until saturday. We made this whole plan of all the things we wanted to do together! Jodi, suprisingly, had never been to the artist market on friday mornings in Tel Aviv, the one I went to a few weeks ago, so I really wanted to take her and show her. SHe loveeeeeeeeeed it!! SHe couldnt beleive she had never been there before. SO many stands with art work, jewelery, gadgets, judaica stuff, such cool stuff. I took her to all the stands where I bought things last time! We stopped at this really pretty jeweler who had all these chamsas and necklaces wiht shiny beads and colors. We spent an hour there and had a field day! i was torn between so much stuff and ended up buying a really pretty necklace with a jewish star. Jodie bought a ton of gifts there and some necklaces for herself. Then I showed her where I got my chamsa last time and I ended up buying a bunch of gifts from my friends there! It was so much fun, and the weather was sooo hot!!
Then, I've alwaysss wanted to go to Yafo which is a small area right outsidish tel aviv. The weather reports always give the weather for Tel Aviv-Yafo so I really wanted to see what the Yafo part was alll about. So we took the bus there. It was literally a giant shuk/flea marketish filled with shit. It was like people took things from their houses and sold it on the side of the road, completeeee garbageee! pots, pan,s jewelery, what they consider antiques, you name it-- garbageee!! Its run by all Perisan jews and arabs! The area was reallly really reallly pretty. It was kind of a cross between Jerusalems old sone buildings and streets in europe- really nice- but such crap there. I was s happy I finally got to go--crossing that off the list!!
Then we went to this amazinggg sandwhich place for lunch. Tell aviv has all these like kioosks and bar restaurants set up in the middle of the street, its literally outdoor bars and restaurants in the middle of the street. So one of them is this famous sandwhich place thats always written in newspapers and magazines of places to go. You get this giant roll and youload it up with veggies, cheeses, spreads, meats, sauces, etc... Its amazinggg or they have omlette platters where you choose an omlette you want and then like 8 sides and veggies on the side on this giant glass platterr!! We got sandwhiches and they were amazingggggggggg!! Then we walked over to Jodis favorite smoothie place, called Tamara, where they make all these amazing smoothies with any fruit you can possibly want. Im a huge fan of fresh squezed orange juice here so I got a giant cup of that....
Then we walked to the beach and hung out there for a while
Friday night we went out with 2 of jodis friends, Hannah and ALexa, to this bar called Kibbutz. Ive heard about it before and have always wanted to go there so we went. They actually check ids in tel aviv, I was shockekd! And since a lot of the bars are 24 and over, like in Jerusalem, people actually dont get let in. In Jerusalem, you just show them your hberew U ID which means your old (because israelis go in the army until 23) and your fine. But here you have to show your licence and they turn people away! COuldnt believe it. Luckily one of Jodis friends knew the bouncer. We also had to pay a 40 shekel cover!!! (which is like 12 dollars) that neverrrrrrrrrrrrr happens in Jerusalem. ANd this cover didnts even include a drink! Couldnt believe it! So we got inside and it was a really cool place, PACKEDDDDDDDDD with ISraelis. There were picnic bench tables set up outside and a giant inside with more picnic tables, like a kibbutz, and bars. We got a hookah, 20 shekels which we neverrrrrrrr have to pay for in Jerusalem (it just comes with it0, and drinks. It was fun, we chilled. Met alllll of their Israeli friends. THe big difference I saw between Hebrew U and Tel Aviv is they have wayyy more interaction with Israelis. Israelis are actually their friends, they go out together at night, do things during the day together, etc... In Jerusalem, Israelis are very serious here and dont really want much to do with us. SO it was fun hanging out with their friends. We litrally stayed out until 4 am! It was really fun... Much different then night life in Jerusalem
Saturday morning woke up exhaustedddd obviously. Jodi went on birthright right before she came to tel aviv so she kept in touch with her israeli staff members and we decided to go to the beach in Hertzillya with her Israeli staff member and all his friends. Hertziylla is this beautiful beach city that is right outside of Tel Aviv. Theres not a whole lot there other then the nicest beaches in Israel and IDC which is a college in iSrael, lots of americans go there. So we took a very expensive taxi there because its far, me, jodi and 2 of her friends. It was so hard to find her friend on the beach, finally after an hour we found him and he brought us to what we thought would be his group of a few friends. It was literally a group of 35 wild wild israelis, both boys and girls. They brought all this alcohol, food, barbeques, to the beach. There were soooo many of them and they were soooo routyyy!!! Didnt speak tooo much english but we tried. It was far from a relaxing beach day, because they were sooo loud and wild! The guys are all warriors in the army which means they are the ones that actually do the fightng and are stationed aorund lebanon and syria. This was their weekend off so they were going crazyyyyyyy before they had to return back to their base the next day. They drank sooo much and just kept running arounf with eachother.It was crazyyy!! These israelis bring so much stuff with them to go to the beach- tables, chairs, bar b ques, alchol, coolers, radios, sprots squipment, everythinggggg!!
After the beach went back t Jodis, showered, and went back to Jerusalem at night.
Tel Aviv is a really really really really fun city- much more fun then Jerusalem most definitly. But theres just no culture there. I asked Jodi what she did for lag ba'omer last week, she was like when was lag ba'omer? they like have no idea when holidyas are or anything. They dont eeven realize its shabbat on fridays because everything stays open. Those are the things I like about Jerusalem. Yea the nightlife in Jerusalem sucks, but theres so much culture there.
But I do like the fact that they are actually friends with israelis in tel aviv, I think thats really cool- they are all sooo good at hebrew because they actually use it to speak to their friends, in Jerusalem everyone speaks english! Also, their dorm arrangmeent is sooo much better!! They alllllllll live together in the same building, its so easy for them to meet people grrrrr
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