Anothere great day at the beach. So yesterday i ran from southern Tel Aviv, even further south of schunat Hatikva. We were going to play frisbee on the beach with a bunch of Americans and Israelis. I did the 7 or 8 km run. I felt alright afterwards, but i definitely felt it this morning.
We played frisbee on the beach for a while, then switched to soccer. Its AMAZING to me how much i can hold my own in soccer after watching the Euro Football Cup for a month.
So we found this guy staring at our frisbee game, and asked him to come play with us. I will never forget this new friend. He was this guy from Brazil named Vanderson. He is a dancer who has traveled the world for the last 10 years. In Holland he played Tarzan on stage, and has been in other troupes. Deutch couldn't stop staring at his girlfriend, but i had a little crush on him. He was always smiling with this huge smile. He loved playing soccer with us, and loved frisbee. He had never thrown a frisbee before, but he used to play an instrument in Brazil that looked like one. He was a natural. He threw forehand, backhand, with his thumb...blew us away. I think he is the messiah. He threw with his toe, he tried to with his chin...crazy.
But we had some great talks and then they invited us to make dinner with them. This was so funny - Vanderson didn't change the rest of the night. We al wore our beach clothes as we made our pasta and fish and salat. It was normal because me and ben wore shorts and a t-shirt, but Vanderson was wearing a red speedo and didn't have any pants or shirt. He had a Brazilian flag which he wore like a toga...i should have gotten a picture. Absolutely hilarious.
So we cooked for a while. He poured a bowl of chips and bamba out and explained this was a trick he learned a while back; its so you don't pick at the food you're making for dinner. It's smart, think about it.
They're going to be traveling the world with this Israeli dance troup, Mayumana. Search youtube and look at it. I want to go see them perform one day. They will be in Spain, but after that they don't even know. As a non-Jew who speaks Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, and some English in Israel it was interesting to see how see views Tel Aviv. He said he didn't want to leave.
They were so generous and loved us, and we loved them too. This was the second time this summer that i met a friend and by the end of the day felt like i had known him for my entire life. It doesn't happen to often.
Some bar notes: we were waiting for a pool table at a bar. Twice huge brawls broke out over little stupid things. It was so funny to watch, but i probably shouldnt have survived that night, not without a spilled beer at least.
I moved into my room today so i could finally unpack...i just have no where to put my stuff. My room is 6 feet by 6 feet. Think about it, that means that i cant quite lie down anywhere in the room, because i am just over six feet tall. I have no shelves, of course, either, and no bathroom on my floor. Here's to roughing it.
Shalom Aleichem.
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