MONDAY:

I woke up at 7, but didn’t get out of bed until 7:15ish I was just so cozy!! After getting ready and saying bye (which was so weird!) I walked to the bus stop. I got there and I was supposed to have about 40 minutes in between that bus and the bus from tel aviv to Arad. Because of so much traffic, I didn’t get to the tel aviv CBS about 30 minutes after the bus left. The next bus was about 2 and a half hours later. While I was on my computer, there was a bomb scare, so everyone was standing right where I was sitting. Someone had just left their bag. So many people kept on trying to walk through. It is funny how not many people are really concerned. After about 7 minutes, everything was taken care of, so everyone went back to where they were sitting. I probably could have caught a bus to Be’er Sheva and then to Arad and arrive in Arad way earlier. Oh well.

The bus wasn't until 12:50 and the bus was really empty, so I got my own seat. When I got back to Arad, I was on the phone and then a soldier asked me if I was American. He is from New York and is volunteering in the army for 2 years. Love speaking to American soldiers in the IDF (that's a lie...I just love speaking to ALL soldiers in the IDF!!!) After being in my apartment for a bit and putting a few pics on my flashdrive, I went with Michal to the camera place. I got 5 pictures developed (Boaz and me, Boaz's whole shabbat crew, the syblings, the family, and me with the family). I got 2 frames. Michal also got a frame and a picture developed of her and Guy. Michal's camera broke, so she asked the guy if he could fix it and he took out this cleaner stuff and her camera was fixed!! After paying a shek for each picture and for the frames, Michal and I went to Katie's apartment for bit. We showed everyone our pictures and told them that the guy fixed Michal's camera. Naomi's camera was also broken, so she walked with us back to the center of town and while she tried on pants, Michal and I went back to the apartment to get my camera. Then after helping Naomi, we took our cameras there, but neither Rach's, Naomi's, or my camera got fixed. Michal and I then got ice cream and then went to the mall to go buy some food for our apartment. The lines take forever in Israel, I am looking forward to the quick lines at home.

When we came home and Leah dressed Rach and I up. We went back to Katie's with a cake Leah made. We had stuffed peppers and veggies for dinner. It was so good and so fun. Then we all went to Musa's. It was my first time there. I was tired and not really in the mood to be there. Rach, Michal, and I left after being there for an hour or two. I came home and went to bed. I had weird dreams about going home, but not having to fly and laughing at how Rach has to pack well because she is going on an airplane, but I don't need to pack well because I am just going to be driving. In our house, we were living in Aunt Ronda's old house (but not her real old house.) At one point I pinched myself and I knew I was dreaming and wanted to do something since I was dreaming, but it ended up not working out...Michal told me the next morning that when she came into the room I was mumbling stuff and said "Boaz, I'm cold." hahaha.