Woooah oooh wooooaaah! (random babble)
Finally, the relaxation I've been craving since months before Nepal has arrived. Obviously there is still much to do but its manageable and calm, thank god for semester breaks.
In fact in general I seem to have washed up onto an island of minimal emotional bursts. I am suddenly unconcerned about the decisions that lay ahead but oh, island is not fully sheltered from the surroundings.
Its cold but sunny outside and I can't help but remember the first time I set foot in the Technion, right about this time 2 years ago. I remember boldly marching in with my fuzzy jacket and thinking - this isn't so cold! How quickly the Israeli heat lulls one's resistance to cold.
In two weeks I celebrate two years in Israel and I feel nothing. Where did these two years go? I feel I've learned an incredibly amount about language, culture, and engineering. I can't even really compartmentalize it that simply - I've just learned and changed and I like the new Idit. I like her maturity (though she still trails teenagedom).
The other day I was having dinner at Liloosh with my madre and after an hour or two of chatting she exclaimed: "וואי, איזה כיף לדבר איתך בעברית משוטפת!" (It's so lovely to speak with you in fluent hebrew!). It really must be a great feeling for her to speak to her daughter in her mother tongue after 23 years of dumbing herself down.
And one final thing not related that is just that I like hanging out the my fellow ex-pats (Hannah and Jon) and having random hebrish sentences fly out of all of us like: "Well all the bat-ai baad in the middle east..." (bat-ai baad - olive mills) or "It just doesn't come to me be-kaloot!" (be-kaloot - easily).
In fact in general I seem to have washed up onto an island of minimal emotional bursts. I am suddenly unconcerned about the decisions that lay ahead but oh, island is not fully sheltered from the surroundings.
Its cold but sunny outside and I can't help but remember the first time I set foot in the Technion, right about this time 2 years ago. I remember boldly marching in with my fuzzy jacket and thinking - this isn't so cold! How quickly the Israeli heat lulls one's resistance to cold.
In two weeks I celebrate two years in Israel and I feel nothing. Where did these two years go? I feel I've learned an incredibly amount about language, culture, and engineering. I can't even really compartmentalize it that simply - I've just learned and changed and I like the new Idit. I like her maturity (though she still trails teenagedom).
The other day I was having dinner at Liloosh with my madre and after an hour or two of chatting she exclaimed: "וואי, איזה כיף לדבר איתך בעברית משוטפת!" (It's so lovely to speak with you in fluent hebrew!). It really must be a great feeling for her to speak to her daughter in her mother tongue after 23 years of dumbing herself down.
And one final thing not related that is just that I like hanging out the my fellow ex-pats (Hannah and Jon) and having random hebrish sentences fly out of all of us like: "Well all the bat-ai baad in the middle east..." (bat-ai baad - olive mills) or "It just doesn't come to me be-kaloot!" (be-kaloot - easily).