Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

So I'm now anticipating a change in location and activity. I'll be leaving Jerusalem on Sunday and going to an army base to begin three weeks of Tsar-el. It is a community service program for the army that is fairly popular. The only clothes of mine that I'll be wearing will be undershirts, socks, and underwear. I won't be bringing any t-shirts or anything that I usually wear. It'll be the first time that I'm away from all my possessions that I've grown so attached to after wearing them and seeing them everyday for years. I'm excited for this distance even though it'll likely be very novel.

After the Tsar-el I'll have a week or two of vacation followed by two months of Marva starting on January 6th. Marva is army program that I've been talking about for months. I don't know much about it so I won't post about it right now.

I've had a break here since last Wednesday. I spent Shabbas with the rest of my program because it was a closed Shabbas. We had to go to programming and everything was planned and it was very BBYO-esque. On Sunday, after waking up late and taking it easy, some friends and I went down to Tel Aviv beacuse there were bomb threats in Jerusalem and we weren't allowed to be on the streets there, but Tel Aviv was safer. So we went to Tel Aviv and walked around the city for a bit jut to check it out and then had dinner. After dinner I left my friends to meet up with a new pair of friends and we went to one of their counsin's house for the night in Ramat Gan. The cousins were very nice and they give us beds and a couple of meals.

After sleeping for a while I got up to go back to Tel Aviv to watch Across the Universe, a musical movie that features on songs from the Beatles' repertoire I really liked it and afterwards we took a bus back to Jerusalem and just hung out for the rest of the night. By now it's getting pretty cold in Jerusalem so at night you have to wear shoes and a sweatshirt, or a jumper as the Brits like to call it. I've been going to more bars than I did in the beginning of my time here.

It'll be hard for me to update this blog when I'm doing my two military-related programs because I won't have my computer with me for those times and the time off is Shabbat so I can't use my computer anyway, but I'll somehow find time for updates; don't worry fans.