Last Night, Today, and Tonight

Were all pretty good.

Last night was our first official "night out" with the scouts; they took us to a bar in Tel-Aviv that was pretty great.  The bar was what a bar always is, but the highlight was Scott's decision to try absinthe with Jake (although they didn't add wormwood [because it's illegal], what makes it a hallucinogen).  After the bar, Nathan and I went with Cera, her friend who was visiting Israel Karen, and Karin Lavie to a karaoke bar, but it ended up being closed.  Chas v'chaleela we ended up taking two cabs back to Yoseftal and Ben Gurion street, near the beach in Bat Yam.  We stayed there for a little while and then went home.

Scott and I did not go jogging this morning as we had both had long nights.  Everyone went to the Ulpan to get oriented on our medical insurance and our classes, which was fairly interesting and exciting, as it starts to mark the beginning of regularly scheduled Year Course activities. We then took a bus ride to Mount Carmel and went on a largely downhill hike that consisted of a good deal of rock climbing.  It was fairly fun.  We had dinner at some kibbutz with stone-oven made pizza, just like we did one time on Machon.  It was pretty fantastic.  Before we left to return to Bat Yam, the madrichim told us that we have tomorrow off until 6, when Shabbat is going to start--thus we all decided to go out again tonight, although I did not drink nearly as much.  Nathan was tired and decided to sleep instead (the little bitch). :P  However, he didn't tell me this--what he told me was that he would go out, but only if we both went in our Year Course shirts (they are like the tops of jumpsuits, made of nylon, non-breathable, extremely hot, and very douchey looking).  So I wore my Year Course shirt and met up with the rest of his apartment at the bus stop, only to find out he wasn't coming.

We proceeded to go to the beach and meet up with Adi and some other people.  We swam a little in our boxers, which was fun.  We sat around and Scott got fairly drunk again before Aaron, Simon, Tomer and I decided to go home.

Today was a good day, but I am starting to miss certain people.  I can't wait until we start regular scheduling next week.