some reflections about the israeli art

I had todayprobably the most boring classes ever... It is called the 20th Israeli art. The art itself is not that boring. The way professor presents the topic is so uninteresting people can imagine. We are sittin in a room, the windows are covered, watchin' the slides and she is talkin so slow, so strange (although I like the british accent her is really horrible). I don't want to be unfair - she has a huge knowledge and probably she likes what she does but she is not tallented enough to present the art. The result sie achievs unintentionally is that I am not interested in the Israeli art almost at all. Fortunately some of the artists defends themselves pretty good - like Adi Nes or this blog. It will be continued...

gonna be difficult?

Well somethin has started... No one knows how it gonna be. Next few days will show. Thing we can be sure of is that IDF will respond strongly and surely to every act of aggression against the State and its civilians. As it respond already. Israeli Minister of defence Ehud Barak: "We have no choice, the time has come for us to fight ". To read more please check comments by Amos Harel and another one. Interesting thing to me was to hear from my host that the place where I live is only 70km from the border with Gaza. Israel is a small country indeed. The second thing as well interesing as the first was to hear the far sound of the jet engines flying above in the sky.

If you find links which I provided already not enough here you have some info from CNN and al Jazeera .

Okay let's change the topic. This is a very good commercial. worth watching till the last second.

rain

Today it was really stormy here. It has started to rain yesterday and today almost during the whole day it was pretty much the same. Kinda monsoon rain - wall of water you can get totally wet in couple of minutes. It is nice untill you're sittin in a nice cozy place with roof and big windows so that you can watch what is going outside. When you go out you feel strange, sky is grey all the time some rain falls, wind blows really strong and it gets cold very fast.

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=-GMS9T0K2y0

There are two kinds of rain in Israel one is necessary and welcomed with happiness, the other with fear and consternation.



http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=apwK_GQBFtxY&refer=home

But to change the topic I suggest to listen to this band:

Channukach sameach!

It's a Channukah time:D Yay!!! And I am here exactly on the spot!!! Okay maybe not exactly cus I am not sittin in J-Town but still:)




Or if you want to listen to something more traditional:



what is funny that totally by coincidence I have to write a paper about the Jewish Calendar and Channukach itself, so rigth now I am sittin and browsing a few hundred of pages looking for some inspiration and information.



Meanhwile I read about the situation in Israel when the cease fire with Hamas has come to an end. Nothing nice... http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1048368.html

well: "not by might, nor by power but by My spirit, saith the Lord" (Zechariah 4:6)

I'll be back

tomorrow Im going to the south - for the second time during the last two weeks. It took me a while to be back here, but I hope from now on I'll fast mention about all the events which occured till now and all which will happen in close future. It is all because Israel is so crazy and fulfilled with unexpected moments and experiences.

Nazareth

If somebody is interested in Nazareth or want to be faimiliar with a bit ridiculous* point of view on the history I suggest to check out the links I provided. There is also some Israeli point of view on the issue.
Basically you can easily find three things in the city. Churches, the shuq and the rest which includes all the things I didn't enlist.
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why I wrote ridiculous? It makes me mad when somebody tries to rewrite the history by saying that one side is good and the other is bad. Life is not that easy/simple.

















This picture reminds story of Jonas I presume... but if you will have any other connotations I won't be surprised;)
This abstraction is my most favourite one among many others which comes from all over the world and are devoted to Saint Mary. You can enter the Church of the Annunciation and you will find many interesting paintings, mozaiks, etc. The only thing which is strange is the building made of concrete, looking inside lika a bunker. Kinda empty shell. No spirituality. Place for tourists, that's all. This is my opinion. Maybe some people like such a places. Who knows?








Fulla

when here nothing really bad happens not so far away from here...

Me and some of my friends are considering the trip to Hebron (and the official municipal web page). According to what my friends said it is better not to go there. Why? Cus the settlers are not in the mood and they are a bit unfriendly and hostile. Another reason - the soldiers or police who are responsible for the safety of the people who are there are not interested in this much. To read about all of the reasons click "Ha'aretz" Petition: Enforce Law in Hebron!
No matter what I m not going to give up.

These movies are stunningly sad...







If you re interested in this topic or any other related to what is going on in the West Bank check www.shovrimshtika.org and btselem.org

moment at the Uni

Few glances on our day at TAU

In short: classes, lectures, meetings, appointments, relax on the uni lawn everything surrounded by funny looking facilities.












Famous food corner

a few impressions

These cats down there belong to my friend's father. This is the first time in my life when I meet Maine Coon:)cats:) Yay!!! I was invited to the dinner at Omri's father place and had an unique opportunity to meet one of those Polish Jews who decided to move out from Poland not right after the war but a few years later. He was 11 years old that time. What is amazing about him that he still speaks polish quite fluent. It was really moving to hear some stories from his childhood in Poland - like the story of the letter to Stalin which he and many other kids in the early 50's were asked to write or a story of his unintended denunciation of his parents who listened to The Radio Free Europe officially prohibited in the communistic Poland. Fortunately without any consequences - the teacher who heard it started to shout at him not to say it in public any more.

cus I have to write this f*** essay I cannot watch the game...

Well I am not a big fan of basketball but it is a nice thing to sit with the friends, drink some beer, wine, whatever, eat some nice stuff and watch a good game. And what? And I can't... Why? Because of this shitty polish bureaucracy - no chance to have a regular agreement with TAU so all the permissions I had to do on my own. Some rules had change when it should not. Like the idea that although I am not attending to a classes I still have to write two fu*** essays. I hate it cus because of it last two days I feel like carrying to heavy burden especially when here I have so much to do. Btw. I did not come here to write some shitty paper to my classes in PL!!!

Marsh Dondurma

On Saturday I hope to experience this wonderful music show If you are interested what is this Marsh Dondurma band watch the video on the bottom.



and because I am in a shitty mood today and working hard on changing it please excuse me posting some strange things here today;)like this:



or like this

James Bond

we went to the cinema next to Dizengoff but there were no shows so in a hurry we visited another cinema nearby. Next to Kikar Rabin

so many things to mention so little time to write about...

hi:) last weekend was fulfilled with attractions. I'll try to write as much as possible about before a I will have to sit and work hard - strange serial I have to watch - approximately four hours long, and then write some essay based on my impression from it. It was, I can say it openly, one of the best weekends in my entire life!!! (and I won't exaggerate, that's for sure:)
So let's go:)
About the trip near Tulkarem I have mentioned already. Yesterday we were taken by Adir and one of his best friends Arik to the climibg site near to Jerusalem (15 minutes by car from J-Town) in the territory of the West Bank (this place helped me understand why State of Israel is not so willing to discuss about borders around Jerusalem).




don't know why but the name of Town of Holon fascinates me a lot.


If you want me to define how the Gan Eden might look like I'll answer shortly: like the place where we were - Ein Fara. Just imagine in the middle of dessert there is a canyon crossed by small river and a few ponds. Walls of the canyon are sharp and majestic. Magic.
























































Here you can find one of the many movies showing some climbing experts in action in Ein Fara, which is an Israeli paradise for climbers.



and a short offtopic:)