Friday was great becuase we were able to sleep in then head to Carmel Market to get some fresh fruits and vegetables (and the requisite baraka...Im going to get so fat) and check out the arts and crafts market that they have every Tuesday and Friday one street over. Im sure we'll be heading to both of these places many many times. After lunch we made our way to the beach for the first time. Its crazy that we've been here for a few days and live literally two blocks from the beach but had yet to make it down there.
The rest of our weekend was spent with Tams family. I am super fortunate to be here with Tam who has so many kind and generous relatives in and around the city. Friday night we taxi'd up to Herzliya for friday night dinner at her cousin's house. Dinner was great and we stayed over night so we could join them on a picnic to the Carmel mountains the next day. We lucked out yet again with the weather and had an absolutely great day. The mountains are beautiful - with mountain range on one side and a view of the sea on the other. Israel definitely has some pretty impressive and varied landscape for such a small country.
Yesterday we had our first classes. Not too much to comment on them just yet as these were the intro classes, but I htink they will be interesting enough. I will say that they are almost all 1.5 hours in length - which I have determined to be the optimal amount of time for a law class to be (take note Ottawa U) - so no complaints there. Going to two more classes today. I guess I will mention that we have about a 40 minute bus ride to get to class. Not terrible, and likely worth it since living near campus would not be as interesting or convenient for most things as where we live now (although quieter for sure...).
Current temperature: 18°C (brrrrr)
ps. the spell check on this thing doesnt work...and I am too lazy to re-read my posts :)
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