Hmm. Harry Potter is a universal phenomenon. Reading it, I feel connected not just to everybody back in the States who's HP-crazy, but to fanatics all over the world. So the Potter craze is kind of silly, but it's also kind of neat, plus it makes me feel like a seventh-grader again. Besides, I was able to pre-order the book from Steimatsky's, speaking only in Hebrew.
On Friday, my friend Mike from the ulpan and I went to Haifa to play some ultimate. I've really missed this game, and I haven't played in over two months. But it's so different here! At Vassar we have a huge and lively and enthusiastic team. In Haifa, we barely managed to scrounge up ten people for a five-on-five game. And although Noyes Circle at Vassar can be frustratingly muddy, it was nothing compared to the sand that had taken over this scraggly field next to the biggest mall in Haifa.
This weekend Meital came to visit me on the kibbutz. It was my first sof-shavuah (weekend) here and not travelling. Lazar's kibbutz sister just graduated from high school, and the graduating class from the kibbutz put on a hatzagah (play) and had a really nice party in the wedding gardens on the kibbutz. It was very difficult for me to understand the hatzagah, but the party was so nice. The wedding gardens are beautiful, and I even felt a little bit like I was at a wedding. They had all these fancy and delicious desserts there. I danced with my 11-year-old kibbutz sister, and met this guy, Dan, who did an ulpan here a year ago, during the second Lebanese War. It was really interesting to hear about his experience here and how it differed from mine because of the war. They combined the kitah bet and gimmel classes, and they learned in a shelter. I also met a friend of Dan's who volunteers at a feminist center in Haifa, and I'm going to try to volunteer some time there as well. It should be nice to get off the kibbutz some more, and establish some connections in Haifa--plus, I really miss Vassar-esque feminist communities!
After the party, we went to Ultrasound, the huge club on Kibbutz Yagur, and it was insane. The place is HUGE and consists of four different soundproofed rooms, in which they play four different kinds of music. It was Ultrasound's birthday on Friday (as well as my dad's and Becky Brehl's--Happy Birthday!), so there was extra celebration. We stayed out until 5 in the morning, and then slept until 12:30 yesterday.
After lunch on shabbat, these two kibbutzniks pulled up to the ulpan in a pickup truck and announced that they were going to these natural springs, and they had room for three more people. So Lazar and Meital and I put on our bathing suits, and we drove to this trail near Haifa. I thought we were going to get out of the truck and walk, but Matan, one of the guys, ordered us to buckle up, and he started to drive the truck on this rocky hiking trail! It was really scary, but fun.
THe spring was really cool. It was like this cave with water up to my stomach, and it was really narrow and pitch black and low.
I'd give more details but Anita is waiting for the computer.
Tisha B'Av is in two days.
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