Rain!!!

This morning I woke up to heavy storm clouds announcing the presence of booming rain.  It was fantastic--for the first day since I've gotten here, I walked outside and did not feel hot at all.  It was a perfect 68 degrees Fahrenheit outside, and the drizzle was just beginning to come down as I got to volunteering at the school in the morning.

Some days when I'm at the school I feel disheartened about the future of Israel, because the kids I work with are all troublemakers who haven't learned any English.  Today, though, I got a chance to work with some of the better kids near the end of the day, and it was very relieving--they really knew their shit.

I realized on my way back to the apartment that I'd left my umbrella at the school; I hope it's still there on Monday.  I came back to a very clean apartment that Roie had spent most of the morning working on.  We had mifgash dira with Noa just a bit ago and tried to get her to say "fuck" the whole time.  This is one of the things that's listed on our "list of things to do before the end of Bat Yam (as an apartment)," but we couldn't manage yet.  It was a good mifgash though.  Tonight, we'll cross another one of the things off the list as we go to Moses, an amazing burger place in Tel Aviv, as an apartment.  I'll take some pictures and write about it later.

Anywho, I'm in a rush to eat lunch and shower before Ulpan, so I'm gonna go.  Hope your day is turning out to be pleasantly surprising!