Top 10 List

Here is a list of 10 Things I love about Israel:

1. There fresh vegetables and fruits are amazing.
2. People here are super nice, and treat you like family.
3. They are super concerned about children here.
4. Like family, people will drop everything for you.
5. Also like family, people make sure you have something to do on holidays (not to be alone) and that you always have a meal or snacks all the time.
6. Despite it being a tense place, people are carefree and light here.
7. There are almost no drunk people here (everybody smokes instead)
8. People are real here, not fake.
9. People laugh a lot when they are happy.
10. Public/private places like restaurants let you use their restroom even if you are not a customer (unlike the U.S.)
    
    

    

    Yummy fresh strawberries!
    (Ok, so this strawberry vendor had a fight
    with the supermarket and set up selling his fruit
    RIGHT outside the supermarket instead of
    giving it to the supermarket to sell! So funny!)

10 Things I don't like:

1. There are as many stray cats here as there are squirrels in the U.S. They are missing ears, eye balls, tails and are really gross and scary looking!
2. The car street lights don't match up with the pedestrian lights so a walker will walk in front of a car unknowingly
3. The pedestrian lights don't match up with each other across a two-part street so if one light is green, you only get half way across the road because the other light is red.
4. There is cat pee and dog poo on the streets everywhere so you need to watch where you are going.
5. In the city, people throw their waste water out the apartment window when washing floors. Always look up!
6. At the same time people are super nice and will go out of their way for you, they can also be VERY rude as well. "Customer Service" is a term that has not made it here yet!
7. Walkers have a straight path and if you are in their path, you get knocked down or atleast pushed without acknowledgement (I have learned to give it right back to them though).
8. Some people are not paying attention in public places and hit you with their bags or bang into you and then don't even seem to realize it!
9. There has not been one time in the grocery store where I have not seen a fight waiting in the long line.




Ugh! The lights and the walk signals don't match up!
Be careful!


10. Because some of the people are so rude and tough, it would be hard if you were sweet.