Adventures in Tel Aviv

Spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning (today) in Tel Aviv. Here's part 1 of the story:

Thursday was our education day in TA. It was on Israeli culture and actually very interesting. We saw clips from "Walk on Water," the best Israeli movie I've ever seen, which was great, and then from this other movie about the Russian immigrant woman which looked good, and finally from "Sof Ha-Olam Smolah" (Make a Left at the end of the world). All very cool. Then we had a speaker talk to us about modern dance in Israel, which was a bit odd, cuz she didn't tlak aobut Israeli dance. Then she showed us some of the stuff she choreographed, and it was interesting if a bit bizarre. Occasionally, people were flopping around like chickens (but not doing the funky chicken). It occurred to me that modern dance is a bit like the Jackie Mason joke about Picasso: if you saw you're five year old son do this, you'd put him in a sanitarium. After this, we had a speaker talk to us aobut grafitti in Israel, which was cool, cuz we saw some of it later outside, like these imprints that were placed inside of street signs, and these hearts that were tiled onto the streets, and even the steps near Rabin Square. Then we had a free lunch, where I had good Italian pizza, and then we did a walking tour of Jaffa, whih was beautiful.