Today I caught a ride to Tel Aviv with Yoram. His office is on Mazeh street, close to the Sheinkin area, which is quite convenient. I found a very nice Eng-Heb/Heb-Eng dictionary in the Steimatzky bookstore, in a very handy size, and to an excellent price. There is the annual book week coming up and I paid about 100 SEK for the book! That was a nice surprise since I expected to have to pay several hundreds for a decent dictionary.
Then I met up with Miles and we roamed the Ha-Carmel market and the Shouk for several hours. We found a hummous joint deep down in the Shouk and that's the way you like it! The hip places along Ha-Carmel street can keep on serving people that don't know better.
We talked about life and love and everything, but most of all aikido. Miles has started a project called "Aikido Without Borders". AWB is dedicated to empowering people in areas of conflict in Israel/Palestine by initiating adult, youth and women’s training programs in the martial art of aikido. As a unique Japanese martial art based on the principles of harmony and transforming negative energy into positive, aikido has been proven as an effective means of change in environments of intolerance, hatred, and hostility. The objective of AWB is to create sustainable aikido learning communities in Israel and Palestine that foster new perspectives on conflict resolution, create cross-cultural ties, and nurture common values. AWB has been evolving for quite some time, but it is a sensitive process that has to be developed with care. However, it gives me goose bumps just thinking about it, just like it always does when you touch something that is cosmically correct...
If I lived in Tel Aviv, I wonder if I would ever learn Hebrew. People immediately catch that you are not Israeli, even though you initiate with something in Hebrew, and then they address you back in English. Israel, and Tel Aviv in particular, is very internationalised, and everybody speaks good English, and happily! So, for my Hebrew, I guess that living in Tivon is a very good thing.
Today Ziv came home and admitted that he ate sweet pepper and tomatoes when he was served food at his friends place. Is it not amazing that it sometimes takes someone from outside of the family to break silly ideas like these? This evening we have the kids here and we had a nice quiet family dinner, all sitting around the table, and we ate vegetables. Broccoli, sweet pepper, tomatoes, avocado, coriander and boiled sweet corn. Kids also got some chicken sausage. Ziv tasted of everything and even said that he really liked raw carrot, but that he never ever tried it before! Gal is a tougher nut to crack, but one thing at a time. He had already gone through a serious discussion with daddy about constantly demanding 100% attention from everyone and everything around him! Oy vey...
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