http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/firejessi/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from firejessi en-us Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:55:19 +0000 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:55:19 +0000 Hello Shalom Salam BonjourBesides being on crutches which is not so much fun in my life I tend to keep myself busy with writing. Not that you would actually know that from my horrible habit of not uploading new blogs but rest assured I do write on a fairly consistent basis. Now because of my injury that seems like all I have time to do and Anyhow one of my newest writing endeavors http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Center-District/Kfar-Saba/blog-294000.html So...funny story. Yesterday I was walking towards home in a semihappy daze after going to a job interview probably won't get the job but I had fun in the interview anyways I then see a fire truck passing by which always confirms to me that because I focus a lot of my energy on the FD this is why I see it everywhere. I'm walking along and these 2 children ask me to help them get their basketb http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Center-District/Kfar-Saba/blog-291928.html I love finding other English speaking bloggers in Israel. It's like a game of hide and seek and makes me feel slightly less crazy when something happens to me in this country and I look around and happen to be the old nonHebrew speaking person on the planet at the moment. Saying this I have my few favorites. What War Zone is this hilarious guy Benji Lovett's blog. I had the very interesting an http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Center-District/Kfar-Saba/blog-272741.html This is not a country made for waiting. In any form. Which I find ironic considering that technically the Jewish people have been waiting eons I'm talking biblical years for Israel to come to be. So maybe in a way the lack of patience of the Israelis is a form of rebellion against time which is constantly threating to end. I find it fascinating that on certain days of the year such as Yom Ha'z http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Center-District/Kfar-Saba/blog-265970.html Alright...I have a very quick gripe. Today in my mailbox I recieved a piece of mail from my old bank in the United States and upon looking very closely it is addressed to Jessica N EdwaidWhat the hell is thatJust because I live in the Middle East I have to have an Arab sounding name My name is Edwards that is a very English sounding name...nowhere even close to EdwaidNot cool PNC Bank. http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Center-District/Kfar-Saba/blog-259430.html Updates updates. Life is interesting and in the interest of not being too hippydippy I'll try to keep my self in control. I'm home. Home as in Israel not that far off place over the Atlantic ocean I used to call home. That my dear friends by the way 1 more new loyal reader Hey Hi is what I used to call home. Not anymore. What's absolutly ridiculous however is how I seem to have melde http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Center-District/Kfar-Saba/blog-256702.html Alright alright. I give. I suck at updating wellhellipanything that doesnrsquot pay me money. Which point in fact my other job does. So here we go. Update 1 Irsquom not in Israel right now. Surprise Irsquom actually in the states in my old hometown to be exact. And to be completely honesthellip.Irsquom over it. And itrsquos only been a week. Now I know they say that ldquot http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Pennsylvania/Monroe-County/blog-235433.html Anger management and inefficiency are the tag words of these next two blogs. I have decided to write about these phenomenarsquos in two separate blogs not only because itrsquos a pretty lengthy subject but also to well ummhellipgive me 2 blogs because only God knows when the next time I actually sit down and write another one will be. Heyhelliplife happens. What never fails to amaze http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Center-District/Kfar-Saba/blog-227341.html Okhellipso when is it ok to stop being a momma's boy Is there a certain age cutoff a significant point in your life where you say Ok MomhellipI'm insert age here now and I want to be my own person without you in my life all the time or how about Mom I know that you love me dearly but reallyhellipI can do my own laundry and cook my own food and hey can you just stop trying to fix m http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/blog-223130.html The wheels on the bus go round and round round and round. Busses are interesting here in Israel. First you have the 2 main ones which are called Dan and Egged respectively. Now there's a new company called Kevim which to me seem like much nicer busses as far as public transportation goes. However their lines are very limited and only go to places within Tel Aviv and the periphery towns such as http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Tel-Aviv-District/Tel-Aviv/blog-210174.html Ok so Irsquom crazy. This I know. But get this Irsquove decided to do another random crazy event because wellhellip.thatrsquos me. Irsquove joined the ldquoJewish Princess Odysseyrdquo. What in the world is that you may be asking yourself Especially when you picture me and all my very non Jewish Princess ways. Irsquom that girl that rolls out of bed wears practically no makeu http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Tel-Aviv-District/Tel-Aviv/blog-206050.html So before I forget any of the things that happened to me today I have to write them all out.Tonight I was given the opportunity to go to Rosh Hashana dinner with my loyal blog reader Itay and his beautiful family. His wife Galit and adorable daughter welcomed me into their home in Ness Ziona and adopted me for the holidays. Which in and of itself is amazing and makes me love this country even mo http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Tel-Aviv-District/Tel-Aviv/blog-201756.html Fergie's song Big Girls Don't Cry is the story of my life. It pretty much sums up almost every relationship professional romantic and friendship wise I have ever had.I'm feeling down.I'm sincerely starting to doubt the job prospect for me here in Israel at least in the firefightingmedic capacity. It seems as if I am stonewalled every 5 steps I take. It's really starting to get to me.Now http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Tel-Aviv-District/Tel-Aviv/blog-200818.html So I've decided something.I have decided that I despise old people in the supermarket. Now in order to be fair most people go by me unnoticed on their shopping excursions and I have met 2 very nice old people before but on the whole I can't stand them.Let's just refer back to my Pesach adventure with the insane little old man that rammed his cart into me repeatedly and screamed at me because w http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Tel-Aviv-District/Tel-Aviv/blog-200057.html So I took a extended vacation from writing my daily adventures and besides my one loyal reader and some of my family I don't think anyone noticed. But since I tend to write for myself more than anyone else that's ok by me I would like to start off by saying oh my god my body hurts like no other. To actually put my arms around someone in a hug is a bit much for me right now...I think Ofi http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Tel-Aviv-District/Tel-Aviv/blog-195950.html Dictionaries are a wonderful thing. If anything when you're highly bored or slightly out of your mind from the pain in your mouth....you take a look and see what's really in that magical book. A quick glance in the B section gives me biological warfare 1500149515021492 14891497149315001493149014971514 or to build air raid shelters 15001502151 http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Center-District/Ra-anana/blog-163061.html I would like to dedicate this entry to my nose my stuffy head and my general unpleasantness that accompanies those parts of my anatomy. You know....in America I had asthma. I mean I still have asthma praise Gd if moving to Israel cured me of that but I have never had any allergies except the stuff I was umm...allergic to. Meaning when I say I was allergic to cat dander that meant that http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Center-District/Ra-anana/blog-155387.html Ok....so I wrote this blog on the 23rd and it's now.....the 29th. But who's counting Oh come on now. Cell phones are killing bees Bees. Give me a break.Upon picking up the International Herald Tribune I came across this ridiculous article. First people think that talking too much on cell phones are frying their brain cells and it leads to brain cancer. They even made these ridiculous band http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Center-District/Ra-anana/blog-153578.html So each day I start out with a list of things that I have to do that day like most normal people do. Sometimes if I'm motivated I'll even write it out but most of the time I just rely on my usually coherent mind to actually remember the stuff I need to do. A lot of the things I need to do center around the basic needs of a human being... 1 food always an adventure here in Israel 2 shelter http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Center-District/Ra-anana/blog-147649.html OK so this is going to be a short blog but I wanted to share this story with you. So we get food paid for us at work during the night shift. Depending on how many people are working depends on the food we get. Tonight in particular we had 11 people working which meant to only be able to spend 100NIS we had to come up with a cost effective way. Hence the idea to go to the supermarket and get http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Israel/Center-District/Ra-anana/blog-142532.html