MONDAY:

Yesterday I had to wake up for volunteering. Ugh. I was the only one that went! I got a text from one of them saying they had a cold. I just worked with students. I either worked in the class with some of them, but one time I took students out. There were 4 of them and 3 of them didn't get along with 1 of them, so it was difficult to deal with. (note to self: mall) For the last class I went around checking if students did homework and helping them. There were more than 30 kids in the class. I am starting to learn English! For example, I have never learned Present Simple and Present Progressive, but now I know what the difference is! Haha. Also, sometimes I wouldn't know where Basima was, so I would ask students and then they would talk to me in Hebrew (I understood them), but then would stop and try and speak English to me. I want them to speak Hebrew to me, but I guess I am there for them to practice their English.

After volunteering I woke Boaz up and Julia made us grilled cheese. When she asked if he wanted one, he said sure, but had no clue what it was!!! Hahahaha. Then we played Taki and since it was just us 2 playing, we started off with 8 cards and when we ran out we would have to take 7 and do that until we got to 0. He won. Then I was exhausted, so we napped. I would have gone to the beach with him, but it was raining. It was cozy just to stay in the apartment. I was hoping we would wake up and then go out for ice cream, but we didn't have enough time when woke up. It was such a good nap, though-I dreamed! After making myself dinner I walked him to the bus stop. The bus came right when I had to go, so we said bye and then I left to meet up with everyone for the basketball game.

I thought we were taking a coach bus, but we took a public bus. Instead of being stuffed inside the crowded bus, I waited with some people for another bus. I thought the ride would take a long time-only about 10 minutes. I knew it wouldn't be like a Piston's game, but it was like a high school game! Before the game, I had a water bottle and they wouldn't let me in with it. I chugged it and then asked a security guy where a recycling bin was-then he took it from me and threw it on the ground! I was going to grab it, but then he told me not to worry-someone will pick it up. Oy! There were dancers, but they weren't cheerleaders. They came on during every single time-out and did their little dance. Katie and I would do our own dances to the music (a guy filmed us, we were unaware of that) and it was so sad that no one would clap for them...so Katie and I were basically their biggest fans. After the first quarter everyone just moved where everyone else was standing. Katie and I went in the middle of everyone. It was really fun. The game wasn't too fun to watch. It was Holon against Narharia. Naharia is purple and Holon is purple and yellow. Luckily I wore purple! Holon won, woo hoo. During half time when we went pee, the girl stall wasnt working. A dad took his daughter and lifted her up and she peed into a urinal! It was the funniest thing to watch. I peed in the urinal too...jk.

When the game was over, the bus was not coming, so after katie, rach, and i bought some junk food, we walked home. It is right by the 5 shek falafel place. When we were walking home it started to rain a little. Luckily I brought my umbrella. (I forgot to mention that earlier that night katie tried to jump over a puddle, but landed right in it. When she tried to imitate herself later that night, she ended up falling into the puddle. hahaha) Anyway, it was really windy and then it started to pour and with me walking against the rain, my umbrella didn't do anything. I was soaked. After getting stuff to bake from super douche, when we were leaving the security guard asked if we bought vodka (in Hebrew.) Since Katie and I love taking advantage of any oppurtunity we can speak Hebrew, we spoke to him for a little. After he said that Katie attempted to say it was raining. hahahaha. When he said he wanted to join us, that was when we left. Btws, we didn't buy any alcoholic drink. When we got back we hung out for a little and I didn't get to sleep until 2ish.