Special K and Professional Leauge Baseball


I have to write this quickly as I have somewhere to be at 12:00 and it's already 11:20. Life on the Kibbutz has not only been totally different from what I expected but it's been totally fun. Yesterday, I woke up at 11:00 and walked over to David Leichmans' office. If I haven't written about him before, he is the director of Pinat Shorshim, the biblical garden in the middle of the Kibbutz. He's also the guy who picked me up at the airport. I'm staying with him and his wife. She is the Rabbi at the synagogue on the Kibbutz... right now, she is in America as her mother is ill.

Anyway, yesterday I met up with him to go to a meeting he had at lunch time with some folks from Leawood. There's no way I would know them he said, they aren't Jewish. He should've been right. I dont know many people who live in Leawood (as opposed to Overland Park) that aren't Jewish. We walked in and he was right, I didn't. They asked where I work. I told them B'nai Jehudah. The wife said to the husband, isn't that where Leah got married? I said Leah who? They said Leah Hedrick. Yeah, I work with her Mom. They are her aunt and uncle. Totally weird.

After we met with them, we went to lunch at this crazy place in Ramla called Samir's. Before I left, I would've had nothing to do with any of the food that they make/sell there... but now, having forced my pallet to change, it was so delicious. I had falafel and hummus and pita and kabobs. YUM! So that's good news. I'm eating more grown up food.

Last night, I went to one of the first professional baseball games ever to be played in Israel. A professional baseball leauge just started ehre called the Israeli Baseball Leauge (IBL). You probably heard about it on NPR or PBS or NBC or CNN. David and Miri, his rabbi wife, have a son, Alon, who plays on one of the teams. It was so fun to go and actually know one of the players. Afterwards, I went with David and Alon and had dinner in Tel Aviv with a couple of the VERY christian players from the states. It was an interesting dinner. One I'm glad I went to. And the food was delish. Again, never food I would've eaten before I got there. Yay me.

That's what I know. Today, I'm going to some meetings at Pinat Shorshim. And that's about it. Tonight, another baseball game. Tomorrow, another baseball game. Thursday, the kids get here. This trip is really flying by.

BYE!
Love, me