These past few days I haven't had access to a computer as I've been with my family since Monday. All of year course has had the past three days off to be with family for Rosh Hashana, the jewish new year. The Fam all got together for dinner on monday, and lunch on wednesday. On Tuesday my cousins Yehuda, Chaya and Tal all went with me to a couple places, most notably The Qumran. The Qumran is located about a mile from shore of The Dead Sea ( the lowest point on the surface of the earth I might add), and was home to a sect of Jews, where the outlining of their homes ( carved in the rock) have been preserved. The interesting piece comes from further from the shore, where you can see cliffs that extend for miles. The cliffs have caves in them where shephards and archaelogists have found the oldest known versions of the Torah and the Old Testament in the form of scrolls. We also visited a battle ground where the Six Day War took place. My cousins have done a great job with using the time we have to show me the country and feed me tidbits, they're really helping me make the most of my free time. Seeing the country and getting a feel for the history is important to me; I'm not sure how I would do that without them.
One of the caves in which the Dead Sea scrolls were found
My cousin Yehuda telling his daughter Tal she's not allowed to walk up to the caves.....................................
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And this is what Tal thinks of the rules
This piece of marble writing explains the following cave.
Yehuda, Tal, and his wife Chaya.
The remains of the village of the bedouins that lived by the caves
Me and my tank just chillen.
This pic is overlooking a little bit of Israel and some of Palestine.
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Anywho, time to backtrack. Friday ball sesh with Mike went way down then way up. Both of us HATE playing with the Israelis. All they do is complain, then cry, then complain some more; it's so childish. We were on seperate teams, and we both had teammates who kept whining, only Mike's teammate was whining at him while he wasn't airballing threes. We were both in a fit of rage and ready to leave, when the best player on the court, Yoni(who's not necessarily good, he's just 6'6 250 pounds), asked us to be on his team ( they play 3 on 3, first team to six). From then on , we flat out dominated. Yoni didn't even do anything, he could see we were frustrated and just gave us the ball. It felt good to play the way we can. After returning home later then expected we had to get ready for a casual shabbat dinner at our place. Later, we went to a club called The SKY club
. It was supposed to be the biggest party yet, with year course reserving the balcony section. It was a bumpin' club, and I'm pretty sure everyone had a good time. Something went wrong with the balcony thing though, and the kid who set it up got kicked out of the club (weird) and many others as well. I could have guessed it wouldn't fall through, these things never do. Nonetheless I had a great time, and Saturday was reserved to do nothing. I did a little bit of napping, little bit of video gaming (ive been playing spiderman on our playstation, and all I'll say is I gotta stop), and getting updates of college football. I ended up hanging out with Mike and Bonnie during the evening and did nothing, although I heard there was a Pool party in Tel-Aviv, which was bound to be a bust ( I never heard if it was). Sunday morning was our final meeting of Krav Maga, 
which was sad, but I have a feeling we'll do more in the future. We had g
ood instructors and got good exercise out of it. After that I went to the gym with Jeremy, and then went to a couple of meeting in the evening. That night was a beach night, and a good one at that. Normally we wouldn't do anything Sunday night, but like I said we had the next three days off for Rosh Hashana.
I've been feeling pretty sick recently, but I'm just getting over the hump I think. I have Hebrew class tomo and that's pretty much it and then it's the weekend. As of today I've been here exactly a month! I'm feeling really good too. I know in some of my posts you could definately detect some homesickness. I don't deny missing everyone and everything back home, but I couldn't be happier that I left. I can think of so many friends who need to leave Eugene to appreciate it, and so many who know what they have and would never leave it. Whats made things easier here for me is my two best friends, Mike and Jeremy. We pretty much do everything together, and they're just making this experience that much more fun. This month has so much time off, including a couple other bright spots. Next Tuesday I'll be going on a night hike in Jerusalem which will be amazing, and wednesday and thursday we have off for Yom Kippur. On Yom Kippur the country does nothing. It's frowned upon to do stuff! Nobody drives, and if you do you will most certainly get stoned. I'm pretty good at doing nothing, maybe i'll offer a class to prepare the others. I'm hitting the hay now, peace and love
Jakey G
. It was supposed to be the biggest party yet, with year course reserving the balcony section. It was a bumpin' club, and I'm pretty sure everyone had a good time. Something went wrong with the balcony thing though, and the kid who set it up got kicked out of the club (weird) and many others as well. I could have guessed it wouldn't fall through, these things never do. Nonetheless I had a great time, and Saturday was reserved to do nothing. I did a little bit of napping, little bit of video gaming (ive been playing spiderman on our playstation, and all I'll say is I gotta stop), and getting updates of college football. I ended up hanging out with Mike and Bonnie during the evening and did nothing, although I heard there was a Pool party in Tel-Aviv, which was bound to be a bust ( I never heard if it was). Sunday morning was our final meeting of Krav Maga, 
which was sad, but I have a feeling we'll do more in the future. We had g
ood instructors and got good exercise out of it. After that I went to the gym with Jeremy, and then went to a couple of meeting in the evening. That night was a beach night, and a good one at that. Normally we wouldn't do anything Sunday night, but like I said we had the next three days off for Rosh Hashana.I've been feeling pretty sick recently, but I'm just getting over the hump I think. I have Hebrew class tomo and that's pretty much it and then it's the weekend. As of today I've been here exactly a month! I'm feeling really good too. I know in some of my posts you could definately detect some homesickness. I don't deny missing everyone and everything back home, but I couldn't be happier that I left. I can think of so many friends who need to leave Eugene to appreciate it, and so many who know what they have and would never leave it. Whats made things easier here for me is my two best friends, Mike and Jeremy. We pretty much do everything together, and they're just making this experience that much more fun. This month has so much time off, including a couple other bright spots. Next Tuesday I'll be going on a night hike in Jerusalem which will be amazing, and wednesday and thursday we have off for Yom Kippur. On Yom Kippur the country does nothing. It's frowned upon to do stuff! Nobody drives, and if you do you will most certainly get stoned. I'm pretty good at doing nothing, maybe i'll offer a class to prepare the others. I'm hitting the hay now, peace and love
Jakey G
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