Jerusalem, day 12

( free tour and kobe )

вернулась с корабля на бал
через 12 часов после посадки была уже на работе
через три дня после возвращения сходила на концерт, а сегодня еще и на спектакль

оба мероприятия были весьма своеобразны. концерт отчатсти тем, что американский музыкант весьма неплохо говорит по-русски, отчасти выступавшим на разогреве Мишей Лузиным (?) и ужасной акустикой.

творчество Джона Гранта оставило двоякое впечатление. с одной стороны, зацепившие You don't have to, Caramel и Little Pink House. с другой, все остальное звучало настолько одинаково и монотонно, даже анонсировавшиеся как позитивные или высмеивающие прошлые грехи песни никак не выделялись на общем фоне.


"Волны" по рассказам Сорокина в постановке Боякова и в исполнении Смехова и Хазановой оказались еще менее стандартны, но весьма интересны в плане режиссерских решений и находок по части декораций. поэтому если и идти, то не на Смехова, а на Боякова.

for some moment today had this feeling that I don't belong here anymore
reminded me of the feeling I had quite a few years ago as I came back to Pavlodar from my first trip to Almaty and felt that the town is so small and narrow
is it time to move on again?

I wonder how long he will last
though it was really nice to wake up and find this message received at 2am: "I miss you habebte"
and then another one later in the evening which I cannot translate: "Ana wahdane men zaman" 

UPD 1.24am:
that's incredible. he just called from some beeline number (no idea how he got it), and looks like spent all the money he had on it, as after 6 minutes of talk the call was ended.

PS:
said that the second message ment that he is alone (lonely?)

I've done:
- played drum
- rode scooter
- burns my shanks
- hitch-hiked
- took subway in Haifa
- celebrated Lag Baomer at Mt. Meron
- swam in the waterfall
- seen the beavers and ibex
- had a whole-body clay cover and private massage
-  tried hummus, shakshuka, shawarma, and falafel, shessek, tamarind juice, pawpaw
- explored Palestine
- visited 11 cities and 6 more parks/sightseeings
- swam in three seas: Mediterranean, the Sea of Galilee, and the Dead Sea
- took all the types of vehicles: plane, Egged buses, arab buses, sheruts, monits, trains, subway, cars, scooter, trucks, cable car

I haven't done:
- try mansef
- living in kibbutz
- ramparts walk in Jerusalem
- climbe the evangelic church bell-tower to have a view on Jerusalem
- eat humus at Aby Shakshi in the Old City of Jerusalem
- visit Herodion and Mar Saba
- buy something for myself )

the list will be adjusted as I go through the pictures and memories ))

Waris marena ßleiss I want spek marena
I could hardly guess what he actually wanted to say with this message from a Jordan sim-card.  
but there was no way we could speak. to call would be too expensive, and actually - what for?
but... he had a different view on that. if it were not for the incoming phonecall recorded in the memory of my mobile phone, I would probably think that I was just dreaming cause by the time he called I was in a deep sleep already, and am really surprised that I woke up to the call cause usually I don't even hear them while sleeping.
we spoke just for a minute and a half: he wanted to make sure that I'm fine, then practiced my Arabic with the only phrases I managed to learn while staying with him (Sabah alker. Kif halak? - Hamdulillah, masbut), and then thanked me for I-do-not-know-what and said this magic one "aenk hlwen" which always makes me melt down :)

воздух с запахом подвальной сырости
деревенские домики на фоне пролетащих облаков - классический силуэт родины
бескультурное хамское быдло

я вернулась, Москва

I can't find any reasonable explanation to it but today going back to Jerusalem (even before I got on the bus and was just thinking of this ride) I had a feeling that I'm going back home.
***
just say some news about Putin's reforms and realized that I will fly back to a different country than I left.
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I haven't even left Israel yet, and my new friends here already ask me when I'm coming back. that is so nice to hear!

have a decent meal here every second day:
- humus with Shaharf, shashlyk in pita with Shalom in Tel Aviv,
- lebanese dinner with Maxim, Alyona and Vanya in Haifa,
- sandwich and stewed potatoes with meat at Mt. Meron
- St. Peter's fish in Tiberias
tomorrow has to be a diet day ))

Upper Galilee, day 8


( hiking, guitar, таежные байки )

PS: 
on the way to the beach after the light show I met Kate and Hanita from Brooklyn with whom I was walking around Tzfat - that's how smal the world is. Kate gave me a map of Tiberias which was very helpful next day. we also exchanged the phone numbers as they gonna be in Jerusalem the same time as I do.