On the road again....well I guess the wind really...

I am writing to you from the plane. On my way to England. Not too bad a flight when you have 3 beautifuly empty seats to yourself. I was sitting in my aisl seat with all my pillows and yarn, and other random things I decided must be out and about for me to get through the flight, just waiting for people to come by and make me menuver myself so they could get to their seats when I noticed that no one was walking up and down the asiles anymore. I felt pretty silly when I realized how much space I had for all shit in my lap and quickly made myself at home. I took a nap of luxsurie and then decided I wanted to watch a movie. Unfortunatly all of them were already significantly into themselves. This was a bummer becuase several of them were on my list. I watched vicky christina barcalona which conveniantly is narrated through out. An easy movie to come in the middle. I very much enjoyed it. I like scarlet. I think recently I've gotten into such a movie kick but it is so hard to keep up. There are so many all the time and so many actors I am interested in watching. I think after my little taste of film making movies and film is intreguing me more and more.

On a more relevant note the past few days have been nice. I slept and spent time with my dad and aunt. It was relaxing a little boring but mostly enjoyable. I saw a friend that I used to play with all the time when I was little and in israel. I hadn't seen her in like 8 years until the summer. Both in the summer and this time our time together was short and last minute due to extenuating circumstances but none the less wonderful. It's funny how with some people you can get together and it's as if time had never passed. Or more than that, it's as if you've been best friends all your life. I mean just how close could we have been at age 9 or whatever? our most intimate conversations couldn't have been anything so intense right? We spent a couple of hours at coffee together talking about boyfriends and school and careers and friends and music. It was really great. It's bizarr what bonds people. When your a kid it's about having the same shoes or wearing your hair the same or really your just friends becuase you happen to be the same age and your parents know eachother for some reason. I'm pretty sure I don't know how our fathers are connected.....hmmm.....

Anyway guy was so kind as to burn many movies on discs for me so I watched a lot of those and saw family friends. Today my dad took me back to the sabich place before heading to the airport. I tried to order by myself and it didn't go so well. I forgot to mention that the place is covered in photos of people in all kinds of places in the world holding up a sign that says "ovad's sabich is the best meal in the universe". You've got people eating food by the roman callisium holding this sign or some naked guys strateigicly holding a sign that says "even in the forests ovad's is the best meal in the universe" so I don't know if this guy started it or his fans did but at the end of my order as he handed me my sandwich he prompted me with the sentance. Now everyone comes there for the food but also the show. To watch him put it all together like a soccer game with all the puns and how he jokes around with everyone. So I'm not just standing here alone there's like a crowd and of course at this time my hebrew starts to fail me. Not only is universe a word I don't really know but I miss understood the sentance and when mr. Ovad asked me "the best meal in..." I said "uhh here". Ovad's eyes went wide and my dad yells "universe,universe" to me from the casheir. No worries the sabich was still just as yummy. I will miss you Israeli food but my scale won't and neither will my pants once they fit again.

Well we should be coming to land soon. Hopfuly. The captain just informed us there is heavy snow and we may need a jumper when we get outside (whatever that means, crazy Brits). Wish me warm thoughts it's been a while. I'm pretty sure I don't remember what cold feels like. Until next time folks.

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oh.... hello...i'm roneet. nice to meet you.
sorry i have been sort of MIA for a while. I guess this means you get a long post read. take it easy, feel free to take stretch breaks if you need them, and don't over do yourself ok? death by blog is the worst kind....

So here i am not at my aunts house with my dad enjoying my last few days in Israel, Guy is already safley away in Hungary getting ready for his upcoming semester of cell molecular bio and cutting up bodies in anatomy. yeesh. I am very excited for him though because he starts to learn real doctor stuff this semester.

Goodbye was hard as always and as expected but we had a really nice past week just enjoying each others company, taking walks, talking, and of course watching movies. I think we really out did ourselves this time, we watched so many movies, in theaters and out. But i think in general saying goodbye might be getting easier.

lets see where did i leave you.......oh yes sunday....
sunday was supposed to be my second anneversary surprise (it was actually moved to monday but no big deal) and it was exactly what i though it wouldn't be: a massage! My present for my birthday over the summer was couple massages so i figured he wasn't going to do that again. but he did. It was a wonderful private massage done by this very nice blind man. He did a wonderful job. really got in there and told me about all the tension i had and why i had it. it was so relaxing and exactly what i needed.

We went to Haifa as i said we were going to. We had a lovely time visiting some friends of my family up there. We saw the new apartment and caught up. It was very nice. On the way home Guy and i went to this rock climbing place. Guy happen to have a freind from the army there so we got a really good deal and spent the evening climbing walls. Guy did really well, he climbed like 5 or 6 walls, i climbed like 3 or 2 really (two halfs and one almost whole so we'll just round up). My hands hurt so bad from the ropes and holding Guys weight and then the rocks on the wall weren't exactly smooth and gentle on the skin. complain complain complain, no we really had a nice time, it was super fun and a unique experiance to share with each other.

we went to a tapeing of a tv show. Its one of those political satire shows that happens every week. kind of like a saturday night live or a daily show except with more people. Its a good thing tv and stuff like that interests me because i didn't get any of the jokes (they were all about the elections and the candadits) and the hebrew was super fast. But we had a good time anyway watching the cameras and equiptment and the actors doing there thing. i was so close to it all. lets hope one day i will be even closer.

We also went to go see a play. At Gesher Theater. I've come to learn that they are a Russian company. The play was about Russian Holocost survivors living in New York. Apparently it was based on a book written by an american author......i didn't recognize either the name of the writer or the play's title. Enemies: Love Story. Anyway it was a very interesting set, dark and dirty, they used video here and there, really interesting. I probably understood 70% it was all in hebrew with thick russian accents there were super titles but they were hebrew and russian so not amaxingly helpful for me. But i enjoyed it none the less. Guy was very sweet to take me to it even though he hates shows.

One of our nights that we ventured out to the movie theater we saw Valkyrie. Pretty good, interesting story and pretty good acting, star cast. Bill Nye looked nothing like himself but i saw those crazy hands and i was glad to see him in another movie. Anyway the reason i bring this particular movie night up is because we went as VIP. What does this mean? Well in israel for a lot more money you can pay to show up 40 minutes early for an all you can eat buffet. The buffet wasn't something huge, there was breads and spreads, pretsles, cheeses, dip and vegetables. But also you get all you want of the drinks from soda to beer and wine and the deserts were yummy. 4 different flavors of musses and cookies and ben and jerry's ice cream cones. And then when the movie is about to start you get as much popcorn as you want and you can take any of the food into the theater. In the theater they had like 30 lazyboy chairs in three rows and you are above the rest of the audiance (the less fortunate movie patrons) We had the best seats, smack dab in the middle of the second row. it was great. no heads to see around, private clean bathrooms. The only thing is that its pretty darn expensive. We had a 2for deal so we went 2 for the price of 1. We decided that if you have that discount its totally worth it, especially if you see a long movie where there is an intermission (for movies longer than 2 hours they do that here) all in all with out the discount it about 35$ we got in for 20$
pretty good if you ask me and you get to feel like royalty. Super fun, ate so much popcorn!

We also spent an afternoon with Guy's cousin who lives in Jerusalem, part of being as we may all be able to understand is missing out on the growing up of the younger ones. I was away from my younger bro for 4 years he's changed some since i left the house and think my older brother left when the younger one was just 10. Guy is leaving his younger sibling (15 and 12) for 6 years so he is going to miss alot of their growing up same with the children of all his older cousins, so we went to visit a 6 week old baby and a 3 1/2 year old little boy. The kids were adorable, i got to have lots of baby holding time, every time guy tried to hold her she started to cry and the little boy was such a little dude he was so cute. Guy had a nice time too :) Guy also mentioned the story of his cousin, a real beautiful story i think. She never really found someone to marry and make a family (a little sad becuase she is a wonderful women and quite a talented artist too) with and i guess she was feeling her clock tick, so she and a gay friend of hers decided to have children and raise them together, they live seperatly but both are very involved in the raising of their two children. I am just super impressed by it. I just think its beautiful. (Gives me hope if this whole hungarian med student thing dosen't work out.)

i think thats it, i think you are all cought up.
Today i spent the day with my aunt and my cousins wife. We all (plus my dad and my cousins mother in law) went to eat sushi (very interesting to read a japanese food menu in hebrew, a little more complicated than i would have expected it to be) and then we went shopping for my cousins kids (i guess my second cousins???) and to sit and have coffee. It was a very nice relaxing day really.

last night we went to eat Sabich, this i must tell you about. Sabich is a middle eastern food. you've got pitta with fried egplant, salad, pickles, hard boiled egg, hummus and tahina basically. But this guy Ovad turned it into this whole sports thing. When you order you talk in terms of a soccer game. So if you want all the salad things in side, onion, pickles, cucumbers, tomatoes, parsely, you say run the feild and the two spicy sauces that you can have are in the two colors of the bigges teams here in israel so you have to give him a score, for instance 2 to 1 maccabi means that you are going to get 2 spoon fulls of the yellow mango based hot sauce and one of the red pepper based hot sauce. Its really fun, there are more words that i don't even understand how they are all connected to soccer but there's a bunch of play on words and things like that. Either way, whether you like soccer, don't like soccer, understand what the hell is going on as your order, or not, its still yummy!!

Other then that i have been doing lots of research on theaters in the twin cities in order to be ready to land and hit the ground running in minnisota. I am excited to start being a working actress as apposed to just telling everyone i am and at the same time i am nervouse to be a strange person in a strange land, i don't really know what i am getting myself into, but i think the fact that i will have my family to lean on will be really great. I'm looking forward to it ultimatly so that's good.

until next time freinds!