Blogs from Center District, Israel, Middle East - page 4

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 Edwaid" What the hell is that?? Just 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 Edwaid!?! Not cool PNC Bank. Not cool.... read more

Anger management and inefficiency are the tag words of these next two blogs. I have decided to write about these phenomena’s in two separate blogs, not only because it’s a pretty lengthy subject, but also to well umm…give me 2 blogs because only God knows when the next time I actually sit down and write another one will be. Hey…life happens. +++++ What never fails to amaze, amuse and horrify me at the same time is the lack of utter patience and anger management that Israelis have. It’s actually been researched and documented however that Israelis tend to be more emotionally healthy because they express their feelings (whether or not one likes it actually) and therefore do not bottle up their emotions and cause emotional distress (for themselves…other people? Not the same case). There are spectrum's ... read more

It is important to note, for my American readers, that Israel has an odd sense of "weekend". The weekend lasts from the middle of Friday until sundown on Saturday. So Sunday, in Israel, is really the same thing as Monday in the states. So that's why everything is open on Sundays here. Sunday, I amazed my grandmother my declining her offer to take me to the mall. Instead, I requested that we go to the Diaspora Museum located on Tel Aviv University's campus. The Diaspora Museum is one of the largest museums in the world related to the Jewish people and their history around the world in various communities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to take pictures while I was in there (a security guard admonished me loudly), but I ... read more

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" (לחמה ביולוגית) or "to build air raid shelters" (למקלת) which in reality that last ת should be a ת sofit, but I can't figure out how to do that on my keyboard at the moment. Then comes the distinction of "to get someone pregnant" which is not equal to "to make pregnant" however it all looks the same in Hebrew; להכניס להיריון. Which come to think of it....who the hell says "I come to make you pregnant now." It sounds like some creepy command that a guy makes and the ... read more

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-aid looking things to attach to your cell phone so that it "blocks" the harmful death rays your cell phone apparently emits. Now that that crazy fad has passed, the newest harmful thing is that we're actually killing nature's bees. They even quoted Albert Einstein (a great Jewish man by the way) when he said that "If bees were to disappear, the human race would follow suit ... read more