Poles and a Day Off

Today is finally the weekend. Well it was the weekend technically starting last night, but today is the first full day of weekend.

Last night was so much fun. We all went to the pub and Andrea scared Dr. Schuler away so he went to sit by Amanda, who by comparison, is much less scary and doesn't try to make him to funny faces :) It was manages birthday, but most of the adults skipped out early because some of them were leaving early early (5:45 am) this morning and others just wanted to leave because they were getting up to see them off. Well Andrea, Cameron, Steph and I all went to sit outside and watch the band that only played 1/2 of a song and then quit and switched to a different one, and then only played 1/2 a set. So we were there laughing and talking like always and the Poles were over a little ways and one walked by and said Hi and we decided that it would be a good idea to go over and introduce ourselves and join them. And it was a good idea indeed. We learned how to say "lets drink," "hi," and "cheers" in Polish, none of which we remember today, except I remember how to say "cheers" and maybe "hello."

When we were hanging out with the Poles, the singing Pole (labeled because 1. We don't know their names because they said them too fast, and 2. Because he sings when coming down the hill from digging) asked if we wanted a beer and Andrea said no as did step and I because we had already had a beer and a smirnoff and the beer is not the size it is in the US...the bottle is definitely bigger by a lot. However, Cameron said he'd have one and so the singing Pole went off to the bartender to get what we thought was just Cameron a beer but returned with not only Cameron's but 3 more for Andrea, Steph, and I. We couldn't be rude so we drank. I didn't mind so much because my buzz from the previous two was gone except I don't like beer in general and definitely not this stuff We drank, it was 12:30, we had to go because we were all exhausted and had to get up to see the Canadians off and Drs. Pratt and Anders, which we missed anyway even though we showed up before 5:45...apparently this is the one time in Israel when the taxi was early...go figure.

That brings us to the story of this morning. It was our first day to sleep in since last weekend, but like I said last weekend was go go go in Jerusalem, which was fine and amazing, but it's nice just to relax. Steph and I woke up at around 5:30 and did some minor things to get ready to say so long to everybody. We opened the door for starters and were a little surpirsed to see the sun, we never see the sun when we get up. We started walking and we were kind of pushing it, but we got to the general area we saw people running away so we started running, but then the hands of the others started waving not to run because they had left. I was sad I didn't get to say good bye to those crazy Canadians that I had grown so fond of.

After the disappointment of missing them and me showing Dr. Schuler my watch which said we had at least 2 more minutes until 5:45 I went back to bed and Steph did well whatever she did it wasn't sleep. I slept until about 8 and got ready to go to catch the bus to Tiberias at 9. I was a little sick when I woke up but luckily that passed before we left for Tiberias. We got to Tiberias and did some shopping and accomplished everything we went in for...and I got a camera, thanks to my mom and dad, who I intend on paying back once I'm working and earning some money back in the US.

Tonight we are meeting the Poles on the beech at 8, it should be a good time.