Parentals came to Israel

The parentals are in Israel!! They arrived saturday night, oh Ariela is here too.

Well lots has happened and yet it seems like everything just goes the same way it always has, even though I have been here less than 2 weeks.

We go to Ulpan, I space out a lot and try to not roll my eyes as we learn to conjugate and read 4th grade level hebrew, its hard. Tomorrow I am going to take the test for a different Ulpan to see if they have a level for me but we will see. I don't want to be a total snob but i need to be challenged if this month is going to mean anything in terms of my progress in the language. I would even rather to not do Ulpan at all and do volunteer work or go hang out on the kibbutz just to be exposed to hebrew more, but that may be too much to ask, well see...

Otherwise I'm hanging out with the parentals and friends, going to the shuk and the crafts fair and seeing Tel Aviv. I promised I would not try to bore everyone with the blog so while nothing that exciting is happening I'll keep it short.

I will say that while Tel Aviv is definitely happening it is exhausting- I'm also not used to cities, but people are pretty rude and abrasive and everything is loud and hot and expensive, so maybe not the city for me, but Jerusalem soon.