slighty less hurried...

but - should i be? i'm "on my way to bed", but i still have plenty of KoLing to do, and i still have to pack for the next two weeks - incl. a trip to eilat.
where do i begin?

i slept a lot today. in the evening we went out to a restaurant, where the food was great, and the coffee was really hot.
how hot was the coffee? you may well ask.
it was so hot, that when i spilled it on my slightly-older-cousin's-husband-who-i've-met-for-the-first-time, he actually JUMPED back and FELL onto his wife, with the most surreal fright i have ever seen. go me.

so that was the heart-stopping scene, everything else was quite bland. good night.

*hurried blog*

right. the week started off unpleasantly - the army hostel didn't have any sheets or blankets, and it was COLD. although i borrowed a sheet from a neighbour, i shivered and froze the entire night. the following two days i was absolutely exhausted, and didn't get much studying done - plus i had to read a lot in hebrew, and that's difficult enough for me as it is.

i finally caught up on tuesday night, with 11 hours of sleep.
damn.

wednesday night was fun - we went to our dba's apartment, and watched the football match between israel and cyprus - and it was fun. and we won: bonus.

one of the guys in our department also needs to move out of the hostels, so we've begun searching for an apartment together. hopefully it won't take too much longer.

i had a job interview yesterday, which went kind-of-okay, and afterwards met up with the dog in tel aviv. we had coffee with a friend of his, and he convinced me to go along to mike's place, a really crappy bar.

where i ran into a friend of mine (my first crush (mfc)) that i haven't seen in years, who i was meant to meet up with when i was in london, and we talked for ages.

this morning i woke up early (in spite of playing rummy-kub at 3am on my way home), around 8.30, showered, packed up, and got on my way. i had coffee with an old friend in the mall, and met a guy who used to be friends with her father, in one of those jewish-geography/it's-a-small-world things.

i met up with mfc, and we went to tel aviv, to get the bus to afula.
don't ask.
we went separate ways, and met up again in afula, where we chilled for a bit before i came back to the kibbutz.

oh, and i did some organizing during the week, and i'm now officially living in tel aviv. yeah :)

*flit*

wow - another week. zoomed passed, without collecting 200.

DAMN.

on sunday they moved me to the beachfront in tel aviv. now, compared to petach tikva, anything's alright, but this is seriously nice.

two new guys in our unit - it's weird, but i've only been there a week and i feel the same about these two as the other guys do. one of them's a bit of a problem, we'll see how that pans out. but generally, it's been an interesting (learned a lot of oracle stuff) and fun (played serious soccer and had a barbeque) week.

i've received a detailed report on this beit abir martial arts school from the wolf, and it's keeps sounding better and better. i gotta try this, hopefully sunday evening i'll get a chance.

i'm still on the lookout for a nice girl... *juts out lower lip*

*deep breath*

one week later...

i've now been a real, working soldier for a week. and it's been one of those weeks that just flew past.

not yet a dull moment. the guys i'm working with are great, and the work so far, and for the foreseeable next two months, is interesting and not too difficult.

i'm still in shock over how much hebrew i've learned in a single week.

the living conditions have been a bit of a bitch, as the hostel i've finally ended up at is over half an hour away from the base, which wouldn't be too much of a problem if they had a laundry service, and maybe food somewhere.

the firing range was, umm, embarrassing. it's the first time i've used an uzi, and i misunderstood how the safety works, and had mine set to automatic.

WHOOPS.

never mind. there are less good-looking girls on the base than i thought, but there's not much i can do about that. i'm still stuck on this girl i met last thursday, but it's a different base :(
*SIGH*

and these are the big issues in life. i can't say that i'm unhappy. i'm fscking ECSTATIC! i can't believe i've been this lucky

^_^


right, now to continue enjoying my weekend.