Saturday 25 June 2011

Part 9: The Quirks and Quarks of Israel life

Recently, I've been getting some flack for not mentioning people's names.  So some introductions are in order:

The two American friends which have been mentioned a couple of times are Sam (also known as sunshine, sassasorause, or anga-raptor) and Scott who sweats profuse puddles, most of that sweat is confined to Qumran.  Both of them are PhD students from America where they call toques toboggans, I know crazy!

Random facts from life here:

We can't flush toilet paper, we place it in the trash cans next to the toilet.
We eat schnitzel frequently.
Breakfast always includes eggs of some kind and sometimes hot dogs
Instant coffee...
Hummus (which is wonderful) at every meal.
7am feels like a sleep in.
The fruit is wonderful
The boys clearly have never hung laundry in their lives you should see the line.

There are stray cats everywhere which we are sure are full of disease and Rachel insists on touching them, while everyone one else hisses them away.

At one particular hostel Dave spat water onto Erv (our proff) by accident, and at the next breakfast Erv dropped his pudding lid on Jimmy's shoulder. So pretty much life here is a big gong show with lots of laughter.

Tomorrow we head to Galilee for four days, I'm not sure how much blogging will take place there, but I'll see what I can do.  There will for sure be stories after and that, my friends, is a promise.

Lots of Love Team

  

1 comment:

  1. Let it be known that I do not call it a tobaggon, as we all know that is a sled.

    And how does Scott avoid getting any nicknames and I get 3?

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