All Kinds of Wonderful

To sum up our weekend it was simply spectacular, so much so that the girls and I are craving the merriment Thursday night is sure to bring, aint no thang about December 25, in TA Christmas comes 365.

Following our dreaded 5 hours of ULPAN we hailed the first cab and headed toward Jaffa to meet up with some “OSPers” (as we are lamely called), Aviv and Funt (great kids!). They were on the market for a hookah and we were on the market for some entertainment, the two went hand in hand.

Although Jaffa is only a 10-minute cab ride from our Brodetsky Dorms, the old city, with its Arab influence, small filthy streets, and congested market areas is a worlds away from the vibrancy Tel Aviv embodies. There is one main road, tons of alleys aligned with shops, which are all full with a TON of shit; I’m talking lots and lots and lots of stolen garage sale leftovers. Mismatched jewelry, doorknobs, furniture, all kinds of goodies including a-create your own chandelier stands with all the chandelier crystal pieces anyone could ever want (check out the album on FB).

Either way the boys got their much-needed hookah, a Syrian since according to Aviv they are the best. Before heading out the boys got some schwarma and fruit juice. Upon arriving home we tested out the new smoke pipe, great piece of equipment, worked like a charm! After spending a fun filled day together exploring we all pre gamed together and headed out that night with tom to academia.

Now let me tell you a little about this sketchy character tom, he is an Israeli born and raised 20 year old whose only responsibility is to party, when I say party I mean party like a rock star. In an American sense the kid is rollin on 22s and flying first class. But consider this…who has ever heard of an Israeli named tom? Weird, I knooow. Either way we rolled up to academia, walked through the line and went to tom’s table where we were bombarded with vodka shots, I got my tights burned by some Israeli bitch I don’t know, and we danced the night away! It was tons-o-fun!!! Following we “a-bared” at this exclusive joint called the breakfast club, very cool place, but at this point I think we were all kinda tired and ready to go home. Next day I didn’t roll out of bed til around 2, Melissa and I went for a walk to the beach. That night we hit up 22 lilanbloom we called it an early night at around 2 am and all chilled at Aviv’s. the reason I mention this is because he gave mars 2 packs of Orbit gum from the states, haven’t seen the girl so blissfully happy in days. We took a photo shoot ☺.

Last bit I want to share is superbowllllll Sunday, and the experience we had in Tel Aviv. The game didn’t start here til 1:30am. There is an American bar on the beach call Mike’s Place, we knew it was going to be packed so we got there at 11, just in time to get a spot. At 1:30 as the American anthem was blasting over the speakers in the bar and the giants and pats were getting ready to play ballllll every single person in the bar stood up put their right hand over their chest and sang the American national anthem at the top of their lungs. It was an amazing this, absolutely incredible, and loads of fun. A perfect way to end a perfect weekend!