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There's something about distance that gets to us all

[29 Oct 2008|12:32pm]

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Lately, I've been obsessing over this one Elton John song called "Latitude".

( Lyrics )

The weather's been relatively crappy lately. I've never seen rain in Israel before. It's so depressing, not because its bad weather. I don't mind the rain, actually I really like it. It's depressing that a little drizzle and some clouds count as awful weather. I can't wait for some really rain showers. Then I could wear my cute boots my mom sent me in a package!

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Here's to another day of sitting in the lobby of the Rothberg International School at the Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, IS. Lol, someone just took a photograph of us all sitting here between classes for the RIS website. Awkward

So we have these various clubs and activities that we can join. I'm joining the knitting club and the a capella group. yeah I know that I'm not a singer, but it'd be fun, right? And then every sunday night they show a disney movie in hebrew in the lounge, and on monday nights we havce Cafe Ivrit. Ivrit means hebrew, so one of the staff members (Ari) takes a group of us to a coffee house and we speak only in hebrew and drink coffee subsidized by Nativ. I feel like Ashley would really like Cafe Ivrit.

I'm actually getting way better at speaking Hebrew, so I haven't really given up hope of fluency. It's going to be really hard, though.

Time to do something productive, so I'm signing out. Bye!

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'Neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp

[06 Oct 2008|11:02pm]

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Alright. I forgot about yesterday in my last post (which was a kind of random post, anyway)

This might have been the most intense thing that has every happened to me:

My friends and I were going to the supermarket to grocery shop yesterday before our classes, which started in the afternoon mostly. Ben and Chelsea (who are together, by the way) were going to the shuk and Mia, Hannah, and I were going to the supermarket for random foodstuffs. The ATMs are at the bottom of an office building right next to the supermarket (Mr. Zol's). I was the last one to take out money, and right after we finished, we were just talking and standing around when all of a sudden we hear a HUGE noise above us!

Well, we look up, and we see a man falling in the sky from one of the windows about 100 feet in the air. He's surrounded by glass, which I assume was from a window that he fell out of. We're directly below all of this, and we have to get out of the way of the glass (some of which hits us) and the guy, obviously, who I can still see in my head falling in the sky. When he hit the ground 10 feet from us, he like bounced or something. He fell directly on his back, so there was really no questioning he was dead. A dead guy, 10 feet from us.

Well, I'm freaking out and hyperventilating, Hannah and Mia are in shock, Chelsea and I are hugging, and Ben is trying to protect us from the glass and falling dudes and he's being the man and everything. It was so crazy! Oh my god. I thought for a few seconds that it was a dummy person. The guy reminded me of those "The Happening" trailers of the guys falling from the building. It was just like that.

It seemed like so long, but the ambulances and sirens and everything arrivein about three minutes (Ben timed it), and we move away from the crown surrounding the dead guy on the ground. Crazy people, why would they ever want to see that up close, I have no idea. Eventually, after about 15 minutes we decide to try to make it a normal situation and continue our grocery shopping.

That definitely didn't work. I texted Avi and told him what happened, and I called our trip director, Yossi, because he's like our surrogate dad here. Yossi said that it was probably suicide, not a homicide like I thought (I watch too much Law and Order) or an accident, which I think would be the scariest. He tells us to go to his office to talk when we get back to base. We give up on food shopping and go talk to him. Him being Yossi made us feel better. Then I went to see Avi and then boarded the public bus to get to school for my first classes of normal semester.

Wow, though. Wow.

Is it bad to say that I didn't think that I would see a normal suicide here? You know, with no bombings involved. And I'm surprisingly not upset anymore. Once I talked to Yossi and got on the bus and moved on, it was fine-ish. Seeing the building again is still kind of freaky, but I'm pretty much fine. You know, for seeing someone fall from a building 10 feet from me, and all.

Well, on that note, good night...?

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