Shabbat Shalom!!!!
I just came back from a wedding. It was my best friend's mother's wedding and it was really nice. This whole week off for shavout could not have come at a better time. I spent the chag with Ayelet and her family in Jtown. While i had a great holiday I can not explain enough my lack of love for Jerusalem.
While I know it is a very holy city and it has a huge history with various people, I truly would like to exam my lack of love for the annoying young Taglit and Jewish Americans who come and drown the city with alcohol and gawk at every person in uniform. I also cant stand the charidi jews who throw rocks at you for driving on shabbat or spit on you for not being in a skirt. I do not mean to make asumptions because that is not my nature. In my nature I do love everyone and I am sure that there are people that do not fit into that criteria. However the overwhelming sense of yuck i get when there outweighs this. I am sorry for sounding ignorant but I could never possibly live there or would want to visit there for long extended periods of time. end of rant.
On another note Ayelet;s family hosted us so nicely. I love that Israelis are very warm and gracious people. Strangers often go out of their way to help. An example of this is when we were eating in a cafe and woman in the near by table offered us a place to come eat meals and meet her family. Just because we were lone soldiers. That stuff never happens in america.
I love Israel,
Soon I will be going into the job market and finding my own place and that is truly scary. But I know I can do it,
Lots of Love,
Michali
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