Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004
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Tayelet (4) – 2003.
Tayelet. We’re sitting in the VW Gulf, at the tayelet near Ramat Rachel, me and Shachar. That’s it, he says. His eyes are drawn to me and my eyes are drawn to Jerusalem, dark and naked in front of us. It takes a lot for me to turn my head and look at him; my…
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Modi'in (3) – 2003.
Modi’in. We drove up to the post in Modi’in; it was 2 a.m. and I felt invisible. The road slept and the car’s purr was the only sound along with the crunching of dry leaves under boots. It was like a movie, when the headlights go dim and then dark, the double slam of car…
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Jerusalem (2) – 2003.
Jerusalem. Shachar took me to a part of older Jerusalem one night, after shutting his law books and telling me – “Elizabet – we’re going out.” It was cool air we stepped into from his father’s white VW Gulf and I welcomed the night breeze up my skirt. We held hands as we crossed the…
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Israel (1) – 2003.
Israel. There’s been a ringing in my ears since my arrival here; since I’ve takento people-watching on the Jerusalem buses; since I’ve developed blisters on mydusty feet; since I met Shachar and heard his voice speak the poetry of this place. He doesn’t know it and neither do these men and women, rocking back andforth…
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what is it that we do?
“we just try to make it work, try to make it work, we complain and complain but we try to make it work.”
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what i really feel…
i feel like you’re on a mission to collect a wife and a house and kids and a life but its your journey, not you and your girl’s – i feel like you walk around collecting things to put your life together – which isn’t necessarily wrong – but you need to be open to…
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two month anniversary
So it’s been two months – as olah chadasha, as Israeli, as new life. It’s pretty crazy that I moved out of my parents’ house and moved to a new country all in one breath. And it’s also pretty crazy that at twenty-two I am able to begin fulfilling an enormous dream, a life-project. There’s…
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nu?
arik, what is going on??
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b'seder, chamuda.
had my first merchant-customer fight today. i won! and all in hebrew! good quality hebrew, i must add. it’s all about the savlanut. and looking ridiculously adorably cute.
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question of price
you cant expect to wipe out expectations, drama and emotions without wiping out passions, dreams and energy.if apathy is filling the void in one area, it’s bound to fill it everywhere.so it comes down to an idea stemming from that familiar concept, ‘is it better to have loved and lost than to have never loved…
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get a jobbie
here is an update on the job situation – so i went to an interview today for an internship at a think tank called the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information based in jerusalem. its a tiny place located in a monastary where both palestinians and israelis work at conflict issues/solutions. right up my thesis…
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what now?
direction. what is this post college harold and kumar reality i am currently enrolled in? when did this sneak up on me and grab me by the ankles? they didnt tell me about this after they handed me my honors certificate or bound thesis. did i work my ass off for four years to sit…
Questions? Comments? Advice?