Hey all,
Some almost three months ago I left a Sweden that was covered in snow and still logging minus degrees in two numbers. Now three months later I'm on my way back after a wonderful time here in Israel. A lot of things has happend, some that I've told on this blog and some that at the time were forgotten and therefore didn't make the blog. I will be Sweden from the 24th of May to the 3rd of June and I hope to meet many of my old friends and of course my family. So what has happend here the past week you might wonder? I'll tell you all now.
This week was a little bit different as yet another Jewish holiday made its appearance, this one is called Shavuot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavuot). It is sort of a harvest celebration and a lot of dairy products are consumed. Anyway this meant that Adi had tuesday and wednesday of from the army. So on monday night we went to a restaurant to be just us two and having a good and nicley prepared meal. It was a really nice night. On tuesday Ella and Maya the two young girls that was with us in the Zimmer in the Golan came to stay with us as their parents took a short vacation. We played some different games during the day and in the evening we had some people over to celebrate the holiday, later in the evening Raz came to join us and we went out to bar for another calm and nice night. On wednesday Ella, Maya and Moti and Maya made a trip before their parents came to pick them up.
On thursday Adi went to the army and I took a nice run, running my usual track here close to the house, fun thing about it is that some of the streets here are named after countries so I run both on the Sweden, Finland and Liberia street. On friday me and Adi went to the beach for some tanning, swimming and chesbesh. The water was really nice and the shadow was good to me as well the sun and I are still not good friends after almost 25 years of knowing each other. Yesterday not a lot happend but me and Adi made a non-gluten Chocolate cake that was really tasty. Today I was running on the sidewalk on the beach again which was nice not so warm this time tho, later plans for the is to pack my bag with only the real necessities so that I can bring more things with me back here on the 3rd of June.
The next blog will most likely be written in Sweden...
til you read again,
Carl
Sunday 23 May 2010
Sunday 16 May 2010
Talking Swedish...
Hey all,
So another week has passed...time seems to fly over here and in like a week I'll be flying back to Sweden for visit =) This week Adi has been coming home everyday sense she has finally got her military-job. She will be working from a base in Tel Aviv and go back and forth everyday until we might find another solution.
Tonight I will listen in to another football game the one vs. GAIS. The last game I wrote about vs. Mjällby didn't go so well but the last one vs. AIK was a brilliant victory 4-0. Another good story comes from the other side of the Atlantic, my favorite hockey team of all time Montreal Canadiens have been bashing the former champions Pittsburgh Penguins and the presidents trophy's champions Washington Capitals and they are now in the finals of eastern conference vs. the Philly Flyers.
On friday me and Adi took the car and drove to a neighborhood close Jerusalem to view some art and speak swedish =) We found this event on Facebook and decided to go. It was an open house event and one of the houses we visited was owned by a swedish family so I got to talk swedish and we also had swedish-fika (some waffles and dammsugare). It was really nice and I got to talk to the family about their history, how they moved to Israel in the late 1940s, got offered jobs in Sweden in the 1960s and then later the family moved back to Israel in different steps. We also saw some pretty paintings, photos and sculptures. When we got back home we took a nap and later we met up with Raz and headed out to really nice bar in downtown Haifa, it was really cosy and sort of irish inspired which made me think back to the time I spent in Ireland.
Today I was running on the beach-sidewalk which was better for my knee then running on the sand as I used to. On another note while we were at the beach we saw a thermometer and the summer is really on its way here or what else would you call a rise from 23 to 28 degrees between 7.30 to 8 am in the morning =) Now I'm happy that I'm inside and the AC is on.
Til you read again,
Carl
So another week has passed...time seems to fly over here and in like a week I'll be flying back to Sweden for visit =) This week Adi has been coming home everyday sense she has finally got her military-job. She will be working from a base in Tel Aviv and go back and forth everyday until we might find another solution.
Tonight I will listen in to another football game the one vs. GAIS. The last game I wrote about vs. Mjällby didn't go so well but the last one vs. AIK was a brilliant victory 4-0. Another good story comes from the other side of the Atlantic, my favorite hockey team of all time Montreal Canadiens have been bashing the former champions Pittsburgh Penguins and the presidents trophy's champions Washington Capitals and they are now in the finals of eastern conference vs. the Philly Flyers.
On friday me and Adi took the car and drove to a neighborhood close Jerusalem to view some art and speak swedish =) We found this event on Facebook and decided to go. It was an open house event and one of the houses we visited was owned by a swedish family so I got to talk swedish and we also had swedish-fika (some waffles and dammsugare). It was really nice and I got to talk to the family about their history, how they moved to Israel in the late 1940s, got offered jobs in Sweden in the 1960s and then later the family moved back to Israel in different steps. We also saw some pretty paintings, photos and sculptures. When we got back home we took a nap and later we met up with Raz and headed out to really nice bar in downtown Haifa, it was really cosy and sort of irish inspired which made me think back to the time I spent in Ireland.
Today I was running on the beach-sidewalk which was better for my knee then running on the sand as I used to. On another note while we were at the beach we saw a thermometer and the summer is really on its way here or what else would you call a rise from 23 to 28 degrees between 7.30 to 8 am in the morning =) Now I'm happy that I'm inside and the AC is on.
Til you read again,
Carl
Sunday 9 May 2010
Finished Army Course and tickets to Sweden =)
Hey all,
So this past week not a lot has happend but here comes the short story about it. When I left last time I was going to listen to ÅFF and Elfsborg this game turned to to be a draw as did the game vs. Malmö later in the week. Later today i'll also listen in to the game vs. Mjällby AIF hopefully it will generate 3 good points.
Its been sort of a slow week sense I havent been able to run because of my knee and my toenail turning blue...but today I ran for the first time in over a week and it worked out well so were back on track. Today Adi will also get to know where she is going to be working for the coming two years as an army-computer expert. On thursday Adi finished her course and me and Maya went to the ceremony which looked a lot like an american graduation with speeches and hats thrown in the air, the big difference being the presence of army personell and weapons. Later in the evening me and Adi went with most of her friends from the course to the graduation-course-party like one hour outside of Haifa. We had a lot of fun and came back early in the morning the next day.
Last night me, Adi, Maya, Shay and Danit plus most of Danits family went to a concert to hear an old Israelian rockband that has been around for some 30 years. They were good and I really did enjoy it even though I didn't understand most of the lyrics, but music has a way of being non-lingual so that you get it anyway. It was a nice way to end an another wise sort of slow week.
As I wrote in the last post I said I might be coming back to Sweden in the end of May and guess what its the truth, I'll be back on the 24th of May and I'll stay until the 3rd June so if you wanna meet up give me a call or two =)
Til you read again,
Have fun!,
Carl
So this past week not a lot has happend but here comes the short story about it. When I left last time I was going to listen to ÅFF and Elfsborg this game turned to to be a draw as did the game vs. Malmö later in the week. Later today i'll also listen in to the game vs. Mjällby AIF hopefully it will generate 3 good points.
Its been sort of a slow week sense I havent been able to run because of my knee and my toenail turning blue...but today I ran for the first time in over a week and it worked out well so were back on track. Today Adi will also get to know where she is going to be working for the coming two years as an army-computer expert. On thursday Adi finished her course and me and Maya went to the ceremony which looked a lot like an american graduation with speeches and hats thrown in the air, the big difference being the presence of army personell and weapons. Later in the evening me and Adi went with most of her friends from the course to the graduation-course-party like one hour outside of Haifa. We had a lot of fun and came back early in the morning the next day.
Last night me, Adi, Maya, Shay and Danit plus most of Danits family went to a concert to hear an old Israelian rockband that has been around for some 30 years. They were good and I really did enjoy it even though I didn't understand most of the lyrics, but music has a way of being non-lingual so that you get it anyway. It was a nice way to end an another wise sort of slow week.
As I wrote in the last post I said I might be coming back to Sweden in the end of May and guess what its the truth, I'll be back on the 24th of May and I'll stay until the 3rd June so if you wanna meet up give me a call or two =)
Til you read again,
Have fun!,
Carl
Sunday 2 May 2010
Birthdays, Interior Ministry and Fires on the beach =)
Hey All,
When I left you last time I told you that I would be listening to the game between IF Elfsborg and Trelleborgs FF and as I predicted it was an easy victory 4-1, later in the week Elfsborg also beat Brommapojkarna with 1-0 so its been a good football week and hopefully tonight the luck will carry on when Elfsborg faces of against Åtvidabergs FF.
As I've written previously in the blog Moti and Maya went to China for some days with a group of friends. They got back home on tuesday morning with a lot of things that they bought and some funny stories about life in China. They had had a really nice time with an excellent group and tour guide. I ran twice last week and my knee has been acting up so I've taken a decision not to run on sand anymore as it seems to be to uneven and soft for my running to be healthy.
On thursday me and Maya went to the mall and grocery store to refill the house again. The mission we had in the mall was to print pictures for me and Adi's meeting with the Interior Ministry that was today. Two months earlier we had been there asking them how we could get me a work-visa and they gave us a list of things we needed one of them where photos of us together and the stories of how we met plus some other important bureaucraticall documents. We thought we had all that we needed when we went there today but apparently a paper from the Swedish Police Agency isn't legit enough without a stamp from a "notarius publicus". These "notarius publicus" I've learned after some googleling exists in every swedish county and their mission is to stamp papers to make them legit within a certain Haag-convention. How we are going to solve this problem now as the paper is here and the "notarius publicus" is in Gothenburg I'm not sure of yet, but I'll think of a solution.
On friday me and Adi also went with Raz to celebrate a birthday of one of Adi's army friends. It was a nice evening in another city next to Haifa. The pub was called Churchills and the pub next to it was called the Beatles....sort of interesting I thought. On Saturday night there was another holiday here which looked very similar to the one that was celebrated in Sweden on friday, Valborg. What happend here was that many people gatherd on the beach, lit many fires sat around and played music, bbq food and talked. It was a nice evening, looking out at the water sitting next to a warm fire.
So this week is the last week for Adi's army course, meaning that from next week on she is probably coming home every day which is really nice and makes me happy, its been a little boring and lonely here during the weekdays. On another note for those of you in Sweden reading this blog its very possible that I might show up in Sweden in the end of this month as I miss you all. If you want to meet up please call me on my swedishnr. when I get back or send me something on Facebook or my email.
Til you read again,
Carl
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