disengagement, elaborated

havent updated all week. and im fully aware of that. it was an uneventful week. with lots of events. saw michele and tomer (and the puppy!) up in tel aviv on tuesday evening, celebrated one month on wednesday, and just relaxed and enjoyed my time here.

disengagement. i know you all want some deep meaningful response to it. but let's be honest -- im seeing it on tv and the news also. there is little to no sign of it here. we have protests and demonstrations - on both sides. walking down ben yehuda on thursday i got to see a crowd of 50-75 people sitting in the middle, waving israeli flags, playing drums, and singing peace songs. and they all had pretty orange all over them. on the corner of agnon and ben maimon there are usually people standing with some sort of sign -- yesterday on my way to supersol i saw "women in black" who had signs in hebrew english and arabic saying "end the occupation"

i feel safe. im not scared. we watch our back and look where we're going. but shit, i do that in nyc also! so it's not that big of a deal.

and life goes on.

going to the grushkas for lunch. and then havdallah.

and then last week of ulpan and some random ass celebration :)