I just got back from Tel Aviv and it's 6 in the morning. Super foggy out, and a full moon. This morning I went to Alana and Hannah's apartment to make MASH(scrambled pancakes, bananas,honey,nutella,and granola). I had to head over to Tel Aviv around 4 before the buses stopped for Shabbat. I had no idea where I was going but I figured it out by asking people on the streets ( I had to ask like 7 different people) and got to his house around 5. It was really nice seeing him again because it made me feel closer to home, because I usually see him when I'm just walking around the house and pops and mike are about to go for a run. His apartment is beautiful and is in a really quaint neighborhood. On the corner of his street is a little outside coffee stand and there's a nice park/fountain on the other side. I met Noah's cousin,Ethan, who is 20 and is in his 2nd year in the army. He went on year course two years ago and then decided to make aliya. A ton of friends on my program are already thinking about joining the army and making aliya. Sometimes I feel like I should definitely move here, but then other times I feel like I don't have enough connections here like any family or great friends. More of his cousins and friends came and we ate a wonderful dinner (plus drank expensive wine)It was really great having a full home cooked meal but for some reason when ever I have family dinners (the last time at Tuvias, and the time before at my Israeli roommates shabbat dinner) I always feel a hint of sadness because my own family is missing and then start to miss you guys and our Shabbat dinners/bananagram nights. (PS-THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE PACKAGE and BANANAGRAMS it made my day!) After dinner I went out with Ethan and his 2 friends from the army to Tel Aviv and two of my friends also met up with us at a bar on a really cool music street called Vital. We hung out there for a couple hours and then went to the beach and put a blanket down and stargazed. The moon was chedder cheese orange(no exaggeration) over the ocean and we we startgazed for a while (I saw a shooting star) and somehow all that time zoomed by and we took a taxi home at 5.30. For some reason I'm not tired at all, but It's probably best that I go to sleep because the light is already creeping in my window...
Goodnight fam.