 | Haifa, Acco, & Rosh Hanikra
2007-06-11, Haifa, Israel. By: jake | | In the north, we were based out of Haifa. The city was pretty chill, not much to do but the city is a major pilgrimage for members of the Ba’Hai faith, and the terraced temple there is incredible. It ... |
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 | Drum Beach
2005-12-09, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | We get on a train down to Tel Aviv early that afternoon, arrive at the central train station, get on a bus, and off near the beaches of central Tel Aviv. We head out to Drum Beach for the Drum Circle... |
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 | Partyin' in Haifa
2005-10-31, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | This kind of throws a bunch of memories and party times together:
Since there's no halloween celebrated here... they have Purim but that's in spring... we all decided to go out and get really drunk. ... |
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 | Israeli Mops
2005-12-27, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | I love my roommates, they're so much fun. Erga taught me how to use an Israeli mop (it's a three step process!) and Einat takes care of me. It took a little while to adjust to living with four Israe... |
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 | Cockroaches
2005-09-21, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | My sense of security is lost, when i walk into my own home i creep down the stairs looking for cockroaches. Eventually Einat will be my cockroach buddy, but for now i am all alone. I walk into my ro... |
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| Kelly's Christmas
2005-12-23, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | Last night Sarah, Shana and I got together to decorate a Christmas tree for Kelly. Three Jewish girls decorating their first Christmas tree...such a blast. Our tree ended up looking quite trashy, co... |
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 | Late Night Parties
2005-12-26, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | I love my roommates, they're so much fun. After a weekend of partying non stop, i decided to go to bed early last night. At about 1:30am Dikla comes bounding into my room yelling "get up, it's time ... |
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 | Exploring the University of Haifa
2005-08-06, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | There's a park right outside the Universitat haifa and today we went exploring. There was a fire that burned down most of the forest and to be perfectly honest, it was a bit dirty and a bit creepy. R... |
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 | Christmas Day
2005-12-25, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | It's so weird spending Christmas in a country where only the minority celebrates the holiday. In fact, I didn't even realize that it was Christmas until about 5 in the afternoon and that was only bec... |
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 | Thanksgiving in a distant land...
2005-11-24, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | it's a bit hard to be here for this holiday, all of the americans have been pretty homesick the last couple of days... but thanksgiving turned out to be such a good time! we went to a town outside of... |
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 | Zichron Ya'akov
2005-08-16, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | Zichron is an interesting town full of history. And lucky me, i went on a tour and heard all about it. i actually toured the house where some woman shot herself to avoid torture from the Turks. cra... |
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| Late night adventures on the beach
2005-08-15, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | So this psycho girl Bashi goes on a date and Gil and I accompany her. She ditches us and we decide to go for a walk down the beach, at night, oh so romantic. As everyone knows, i'm a bit spontaneous ... |
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 | Banyas and Nimrod's Fortress
2005-08-13, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | So, this cute German named Gil has a car and he takes some of us to see these waterfalls and then the two of us ran around exploring Nimrod's Fortress. Although Banyas was a bit expensive, def. worth... |
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| Hebrew and Hof HaStudentim
2005-08-08, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | So, may idea of having Kayla (who's fluent in Hebrew) take my Hebrew test for me failed miserably when i was placed in level 7 out of 11. It actually turned out for the better, i just had no idea wha... |
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| Jet Lag
2005-08-07, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | Jet lag is an understatement. Since I was still on Hawaii time, I had a time change of 13 hours. THIRTEEN! My internal alarm clock went off at about 3:30Am and i was awake and ready to go... to bad ... |
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| Israel...upon arrival
2005-08-05, Haifa, Israel. By: Lindy | | I find myself in the Tel Aviv airport after not sleeping for two days and having a 9 hour layover in JFK. 9 hours of trying to sleep in a phone booth with a crazy body builder woman and meeting a jeh... |
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 | Chag Sameach v Shana Tova...
2005-12-30, Haifa, Israel. By: dave_Stone | | Happy Holidays everyone and happy new years...
School is officially over, except for two papers I have to write when I get back to the states, but its ok... It has been a fun journey, and Im top... |
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| Thanksgiving...
2005-11-25, Haifa, Israel. By: dave_STone | | Despite the evil myth of thanksgiving- a myth designed to trick little children into thinking nice and positive things about the foundings of the country- I still enjoy the food and gathering of famil... |
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| Not much, but...
2005-11-09, Haifa, Israel. By: dave_Stone | | I figured I would pop in, since I haven't written anything since Istanbul. Did I mention that when I was in Butterfly Valley, Bill Gates was cruising around the area en route to Portugal? Anyways, ... |
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| another triumphant return...
2005-09-23, Haifa, Israel. By: dave_Stone | | once again, I will be returning to Turkey, this time for the month of October. Some have hinted that I am slightly insane for going to Turkey three times in the past few months, but i disagree. th... |
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| back to school...
2005-09-18, Haifa, Israel. By: Dave_stone | | school starts tommorow, though its really just a Hebrew test in the morning and that's it. the first two weeks we get to audit classes to see which ones we want to take. I am considering taking spo... |
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 | Tontivics Arrive!
2005-09-11, Haifa, Israel. By: tontivic | | Hello dear friends and family,
We have made it! After shlepping around our huge 50 pound backpacks (made heavier partially because Julie has a fondness for large rocks) for 2 months around Europe ... |
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| Back to Turkey...
2005-08-31, Haifa, Israel. By: Dave_Stone | | So the Ulpan (Hebrew course) is over, and it really went by fast. A lot of the internationals are leaving in the next few days, so Im saying my goodbyes now, but I have a whole slew of contacts in... |
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| A real update...
2005-08-27, Haifa, Israel. By: Dave_Stone | | sorry for the ranting and raving the other day. Anyhoo... Last weekend we went to the Golan in the north and hiked in the Yehuda wadi, through many very nice waterfalls. It was a water hike, meani... |
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 | Not much new...
2005-08-26, Haifa, Israel. By: dave_Stone | | Nothing much to report, except that the disengagement in Gaza seems to be complete. Of course, the press here is talking about how many of the settlers moved from Gaza to the West Bank ,and now the a... |
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| Ulpan
2005-08-09, Haifa, Israel. By: Dave_Stone | | So its been a few days since the Ulpan started. There are about 200 people taking it, which is a pretty good number. I have met a lot of really cool people here, while there are probably a majorit... |
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