Ma'agan Michael

I don't really feel like saying much about my weekend in Tel Aviv last weekend since it's already a week ago and it's friggin' hot in here.
But I will write you something about what I did this weekend.
A litle explanation about how we ended up there:
Adam, the canadian volunteer, his sister arrived about 6 days ago in Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael to do Ulpan there for the next six months.
Ulpan is something like volunteering, but they only work for 4 hours a day and the other 4 hours they go to class to learn hebrew. It is not for free like volunteering, so they have to pay for their stay, although it is not that much.
Ma'agan Michael Is the biggest and richest kibbutz of the country: It Is located besides the beach, pretty close to Tel Aviv, between Haifa and Tel Aviv.
There are about 90 ulpanists there so that is really a lot, they even have like their own litle village!
This kibbutz is really like heaven on earth, the beach is gorgeous, there are so many international young people, It is really great.
There was supposed to be a welcoming party there for the new ulpanists, which we had been told is really kick ass every time.
But when we arrived they just had a rocket hit nearby which was the first time ever: It was the first time the rockets reached that far. The people there where pretty afraid.
So we met up with Adam's sister and went to the dining Hall (with a magnificent vieuw over the sea).
While we were eating the bomb sirens suddenly went off again, and to our big surprise almost everyone jumped up and rushed almost paniking to the downstairs.
What a difference with back home.
we just kinda laughed with them and finished our meals.
after that we heard one more explosion, but not as loud as the one last friday.
at night we heard that the party wouldn't take place because of the rockets, that's when we were totally shocked. What difference does it make if you are at a party or just sitting outside or even on your room: If a rocket falls on you you're fucked anyway.
apparently they are just totally not used to this up there.
So we went to "the Getto" which is a kind of a going out ally for the ulpanists: the people who live there are volunteers who have been there for several years, they just open their rooms and sell some alcohol, there are sofa's outside: so cool.
Most of the ulpanisists were there, so we chilled there all night talking with so many people from so many nationalities, what a night!
I even got to speak Flemish since there were some ulpanists from Holland too.
At around 5 am I went to sleep in a sofa outside of Adam's sister's room.
I woke up around 10 because of the heat, and then we chilled a bit.
The whole morning we could hear explosions somewhere far away, I think about 50 of them.
I still don't know where it came from, but I guess it must have been from the area around Haifa.
At about 2ish we got a taxi and headed home.
I really loved it there, it must be amazing to do Ulpan in that kibbutz.
who knows I might end up there one day, that would be great.
That's it for now, I'm going to see a movie and propably pass out while doing it.
Maybe a litle thing about Tel Aviv :
I had an awesome time there, we went out till the sun came up, met some great Israeli girls where we spent some times with: Adam even got kinda hooked up with one eventhough he has a girlfriend back home: the naughty boy ;-).
We also went to see Old Yaffo which is the oldest part of the city, even from before Jesus Christ, It was simply gorgeous! such a beautifull place white a great vieuw on the beach and the skyscrapers behind it.

that's it, I spoil you guys too much: 3 reports in a period of 4 days!
I guess you can give me some slack now if I don't write something for a while.
Eregtov