a world of gibberish

What a welcome!!! After days of travelling we were surprised at the airport with an abundance of welcome signs held by the TA posse - Ben 'Bibi' Clark, Jacky 'Talia' Lewin, Maddy & Yael..such a nice way to begin our adventure of flakehood. Friday morning shuk trip began with a true Israeli purchase - the ugliest trolley bag we could find to assist with shleping everything...we are now officially Israelis. Shekels quickly disappeared with the purchases of choc chip challah, rougelach, choc covered peacans, chumous & many more delightful shuk treasures. We loved every second of the hussle & bussle, yelling & pushing...possibly because we were completely zoned out post a mere 3 hour sleep. Such joys of Jerusalem!!

Following the hefty effort to get our apartment set up before shab we felt we had deserved the reward of taxing home with the million bags...kind David came to our rescue helping to shove our dear trolley and bags into any space available - its definitely an experience bringing home a bag of 56 toilet rolls!! After small chit chat David generously offered a free lift to the dead sea on the condition that we bring the wine & meat. He assured us it will be an experience we wont forget..."greens" will be included. We considered the offer for a while after...after all..what happens in the holy land stays in the holy land.

Shabbos consisted of a kind hearted visit from none other than Bibi & Talia. They provided us with an education into the israeli TA lingo...peak, flake, merge and noodle were on the top 5 list along with ross brand & merge. Chavs on a mission to reduce the malittude & plans were set in place for a raging Monday trip to their side of the hood....nevertheless flakehood prevailed.

All in all having such a fun time & finding it difficult to stop laughing every second...

Over & out...A.Roth (credit: Talzi)

A trail of bad luck

Our journey has begun, not without a few things going wrong along the way...


Where to start?
Maybe when our flight got cancelled due to some volcanic ash making its way from Chile?
Then, there was the time where we set off the panic alarm at 4:30am on our way to the airport in Sydney, waking up the whole neighbourhood in shock.
That brings us to our next bout of bad luck, where Korean Air almost banned us from flying to Israel because we didn't have visas.
Without food in Korea, we scavenged around the hotel buffet and managed to produce a platter of fresh fruit and vegetables..mmm..tuna salad.
But we managed to get through all of this, and 70 hours later, arrived in Israel.


Did it get worse?
Oh yes it did..
Waiting 2 hours for our sheirut to take us to J.town..
Not having the money for our apartment...
Sleeping a meagre 3 hours the night we arrived, waking up from a sledgehammer in our apartment building...
Losing our apartment key in an attempt to climb over a gate...
Waking up again from the construction people hammering away...
Ant invasion in our bathroom...
Harassment from the landlords re: the money
And to top it all off..Roth and her foot infection/blisters disabling her to move


But alas, this chain of bad luck has not got us down as there are too many things in this beautiful city of Jerusalem that brings a smile to our face.