Landing Zone

Our first two weeks in Israel are almost over. Walking around in town is easy peasy now, even I know my way around...

I'm used now to my sofa in the living room, listening to the sounds of our neighborhood while falling asleep. Walking to our lectures in the morning I recognize the people in the street. The taxi driver taking a nap in his car, the owner of the café on the corner, the Sudanese that sit on the lawn, waiting for something to happen.

During the day we have had lectures from all kinds of people. About Zen meditation, about future centers, about the mastermind method. But more than anything we have listened to all kinds of life stories of people that chose to be different.

We have spent our evenings in Tsila's garden, discussing our project, watching a movie with the director. But also gone for dinners, explored the beach, learned about conducting orchestra's and a hundred other things.

Today is Pesach, which started Wednesday evening with a grand dinner at Ora's place. Her ancient father read the holy verses, the girls served 10 different courses all with their own special meaning and we sang songs reminiscing the exodus from Egypt. Everyone shouted at the same time about what to do next, total chaos in the house.

Sunday we are off to Jalkamus, a village of 2000 people in the Westbank, near Jenin. That's when our project really takes off...