Today I woke up at 10:30ish and i had such a good sleep! I eventually got out of bed and then me and one of miki's roommates, anna, chilled. We then had breakfast, i had cut up fruit! Their apartment has such good food! I cant wait to buy food for our apartment and do that! We then were just on our computers and miki called nathan. After a little we decided to get ready to go to the beach. I realized that i brought 2 bottoms, rather than 1 top and 1 bottom. I borrowed one of miki's tops and it was a little big on me...oh well. We then met up with nathan and we walked to a place where they have falafel for 5 sheks! There were 2 places and we walked past the first one because nathan said the 2nd one was better. It was so good!!! omgggg. i am excited for those 5 shek falafel when i get to bat yam! The apartments are not as nice, but it is definitely more on your own living. I also like that you have stranger and actual neighbors all around you. I also am happy that i am going there during the winter because the apartments do not have air conditioning and it is HOT there. Unlike Jerusalem, it stays hot at night.

Anyways, after the 5 shek falafel, we headed to the bus stop for the beach. The mediterranean was so pretty!!! First we got ice cream from "victory." yes, I actually bought ice cream that wasnt packaged, but it was only 10 shekels! It filled me up. I got the one with cookies in it. so good! We then went by the water and we all hung out in the water (with some of nathan and miki's friends) for a good half hour. The water was so warm--so much warmer than the atlantic! We then got out and some people went to go get ice cream (because they didnt get before), but miki and i stayed and laid out to dry off. After about 20 minutes we packed our stuff and headed back towards miki's apartment. We get back to her apartment and i pack up to go. I wait for the bus to take me to the tel aviv train station with miki and nathan. I say bye to them and they tell me that they will come visit/stay with me for the weekend soon. I then take an HOUR bus ride to the station. I kept on dosing. On the bus, a black hatter was praying and he was shaking his lulav. It was really interesting to watch, especially how he kept on trying not to fall without holding onto anything.

Once i got to the train station, i bought my bus ticket (that will take me to jerusalem) and got on the bus. I got a window seat and just listened to my ipod and kept on dosing off. The bus ride to jerusalem was shorter than the bus ride from bat yam to the tel aviv train station..what the heck!! I then have to wait for another bus that will take me back to my apartment. I felt so independent and i was comfortable and knew what i was doing!

When i get back to my apartment i see that the girls from the other eating group went grocery shopping. No one from my group is back. I put my stuff down and shower. I then talk to some people from my eating group and we decide that we will make a list and go food shopping tomorrow. I then head off to emek refiem for shoshie's kind of surprise birthday dinner. We went to tal's bagels. It was okay..i got a salad that came with a bagel on the side. I didnt finish them so now i can eat something in the morning! After the dinner (which was kind of expensive? maybe not, im just not used to going out to eat), we see terri and rob roth..it was nice to see them! We then go back to kendall's apartment and we had some desert in her sukkah. There were a couple of sukkahs in her apartment area and it was so cool! I love it here during sukkot and seeing all of the restaurants and hotels having sukkahs. It was really fun hanging out with all of shoshie's friends. I also got to see some JAMDers which was really nice. Shoshie was sleeping over kendalls and since i didnt have a curfew (the seminary girls all had curfew), i helped clean up. Kendall's parents apartment is BEAUTIFUL. i cannot explain how clean and nice it is. It isnt too far from my apartment. Im sure there is a short cut though. It got a little late, so i decided to head back to my apartment. i was so independent today! I walked and travelled alone so many times!

When i got back to my apartment i cleaned it up and hung out and talked to the people i havent seen for a couple of days! i missed them! I feel like i left some funny stories out of this blog post...i might add them in if i can remember. All i can think about right now is that it is 2 am and i have to wake up at 7:45. Ill write in my next post if i added more to this one.