Blogs from Kfar Saba, Center District, Israel, Middle East

Hello, Shalom, Salam, Bonjour! Besides 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 involves writing for Instablogs which is a concept based out of India where many bloggers or "Citizen Journalists" come together and report on different news items in the world. The tagline is that Everyone has an opinion. Now if that isn't the place for me and my writing, then I don't know where it is. Which speaking of, I love ... read more

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 non-Hebrew 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 and somewhat stalkerish experience of getting to meet him at the Taglit Purim party held in Tel Aviv this year. Not only have I been following this guys blog for just about a year, but I actually got to meet him. I recognized him because everytime I log into his blog, I see his picture so that when the time actually came to ... read more

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