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Published: September 30th 2013
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Sheruit #5 Well today, or should I say this afternoon, was my first full experience of Tel Aviv, solo! I say this afternoon because I let the morning slip away in my slumber. So it turns out that the jet lag did get the best of me. I should have known I was going to sleep through the morning because I could not fall asleep until past 3 AM.
So my day started at 1 when I woke up to loud music outside of my apartment, at first I was upset that I was awoken so early and than I realized it was past 1 PM, so I thanked that loud car that drove by 😊 I grabbed a bite to eat for breakfast in the apartment, which was cottage and cereal. While eating breakfast on my outside deck I met my neighbor, who is also on the Oranim Program. The apartment complex I am living in has a large majority of Oranim Program participants, in addition, a variety of other residents (including Russians). My afternoon was mostly walking on the street of Dizengoff, and going into a few more grocery stores; this time by myself. I bought some almonds and the
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First ride in the sheruit total was 22.10, and I gave the cashier the wrong amount; still learning sheckels. Of course the cashier was happy to fix my American mistake :/
I had my first sheruit experience this afternoon as I went on my adventure to Wolfson Rechov (Rechov means street) in Tel Aviv to find my volunteer site. A bit scared of the feeling of the unknown, I climbed into the sheruit and went on my journey...! I took Sheruit #5 to the central bus station. I was relieved to have one Sheruit rider who spoke English too, and reassured me I was well on my way to the central bus station!
The neighborhood my volunteer site is located is primarily African Americans. I was soon walking through a neighborhood of unknown by myself, on a search for Wolfson street. I was really happy to find it, after asking a few friendly locals, "Afo Wolfson" (Afo means where).
I got a quick orientation at my site from Yogev, the program leader. Kadimah Center has 48 children at the site, the children at my volunteer site come from refugee parents from Sudan (A few more countries too, but Sudan seems to be
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Here is a sheruit the one that stood out to me...). The primary language most of the parents and children speak is English. I was happy to see the children there, and they seemed eager and excited to greet me, as a new volunteer. From what I gathered today, I will mostly be helping the children with homework, teaching english, and a variety of activities (arts/crafts, sports, gardening, etc.) I am looking forward to my experience at this site...! Yogev was a great help in guiding me back to my bus station. However, once at the bus station I was waiting for sheruit #5 again. I asked two women at the bus stop "Sheruit chamesh?" (#5) and they said "Cane" (yes). It took quite some time for a sheruit #5 to come, and finally one did come....well, turns out the sheruits don't stop unless they seem a hand wave, so the two woman spoke to me, in Hebrew, and all I could understand was GO! By the time I understood them the sheruit had already gone by, so I started chasing after it...too late. So it was back to the bus stop to wait...and than another one came by 5 minutes later. The two kind woman said GO! This time I ran after it with my hand out, and the driver stopped. I said Todah Rabah! And was relived to be on my way back to Dizengoff.
It is now Monday night, at 6 PM (18:00 in Israel, army time). I am adapting to the use of army time, but my phone is still in AM/PM for comfort 😊 Tonight I will go out with Reuven and friends!
I'll write more later, have a good Monday in America friends 😊
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