The past couple of days have been sort of hectic with a lot of different stuff going on and I will tell you all about it now. When I stopped writing last time I said that we might be heading to Tel Aviv for the night, this was in one way right we where going out only that Tel Aviv was not the goal of the journey. Me and Adi drove to a city in between Haifa and Tel Aviv where Adi's friend from the army lives to have a nice evening. Some of Adi's other friends from the army was there plus some other random people. It was fun to meet the people Adi talks about when she comes home and finally get a face on most them. The morning after we drove to Haifa and rested for the rest of the day. On sunday Adi again went to the army by train, the train station in Haifa is right on the beach so me and Maya took the chance to exercise, me running my usual track and Maya walking with a friend. Later we went to do some shopping and visiting Adi's grandma in the hospital and she was doing fine. When we got back I studied some hebrew and finished the first level in the program that I've been using for the past 2 months.
On sunday it was Memorial Day here in Israel, where they remember the soliders and civillians that has lost their lives fighting and living in the state of Israel. In the evening me and Maya went to Adi old school where they had a military memorial service for the soliders who had died that went to that school. Family members told their stories, some songs were sung and the over the PA came all the names of the soldiers that had died. All in all a pretty sad and "interesting" evening. I say its "interesting" cause as far as I know we have nothing that compares to this in Sweden, which might have something to do with the fact that we haven't seen a war on our soil for more then the past 200 years.
On monday morning I returned to the same school for another memorial service, this time it was made by the students of the school. There was a lot of people there and almost the same things transpired this time as the night before. Now you might wonder why I went to almost the same thing twice. I went to the first one with not knowing what was going to happend and was sort of impressed, so when Adi told me that there was another one, and that this was the one she had been participating in for the past 4 years so I went to see that one to. One difference between them was also that the first one was during a cool nice evening and the second one was during a warm summer morning. A result of this was that some students that had not been drinking enough water beforehand passed out or where close to as result of dehydration as they where standing at attention on a football field without any shadow for like an hour. But this was well organized as there where medics standing by on the field to take care of the people that seemed in need.
Later when I was back at the house I heard a familiar sound, a sounds that can be heard on the first monday of every month in Sweden, the air alarm. No worries tho here this noise is not to warn people of incoming missiles of planes, this noise is sort of a silent minute. As soon as its sounds everybody drops what they are doing and stand in silence, even cars and trains stop in the middle of the road or tracks and drivers etc get out in remembrance.
In the evening some friends dropped by to celebrate the evening of the Independence Day here, the 62nd one. We had a nice evening talking and drinking and later we went down to the beach to take a look around. On tuesday morning we woke up late and got prepared to go to BBQ-lunch at Adi's cousins house some 5 mins walking distance from here. At the house the BBQ was burning and a big part of that part of the family was there eating and having great time to celebrate the Independence Day. We ate a lot of good meat of the BBQ and different salads and hummus. After gaining some 2 kilos in one sitting we went to visit Adi's grandma at the hospital again and she doing better, we stayed for some time and talked about many different things in both hebrew, german and english. Last night some other friends dropped by and we sat outside talking and finishing of the Independence Day in a calm and nice manner.
On another note as there is no ash clouds from volcanos over here Maya and Moti had no problem making their trip to China as planned and they left on monday night. I find it sort of interesting that as far as technology has come that a cloud of dust basically can keep most of the planes grounded and many airports closed. I've also been told that there was a football match last sunday but I choose not to recognize it as it didn't happen =)
Til you all read again,
Carl
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