Some words on Purim

Hey everyone,

If you saw the Purim pics then you can guess it was a lot of fun. For the holiday we went into Tel Aviv to an area that is famous for it's Purim celebration - Florentine Street. The entire street, was packed (as you saw) with the bars open to the street and convenient stores selling tons of overpriced beers. There were people from all over the globe as well, lots of Americans and French in particular all dressed up in crazy outfits. As you can see from the pictures I lost my costume pretty quickly. With that many people in the street it was impossible to keep a child's Zorro cape on my back and as I said before my mustache fell off after one drink.

The street reminded me of New Orleans (those of you that have been understand) with people drinking in the street, loud music blaring, and lots and lots of people. We were out until 4 am and at work the next day I found out several people in my boss (boss included) had been out just as late in the same area as me. Great way to celebrate an arrival to a new country.

Not anything crazy planned this weekend, we went out enough this week, but I'll be blogging about some interesting stuff I have been doing at work - I've been asked about it enough that it deserves it's own blog post. In the coming half week I'll also be putting up a link to a blog that a couple of buddies of mine from Philly (also living at the Absorption Center) are writing and some pictures of friends of mine that I haven't put up yet, so look forward to those.

Best,

Pavel