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Yom HaShoah

April 11, 2018December 21, 2021 Posted in Nathan, Shlomit, Ulpan, Uncategorized1 Comment

Shlomit says that she can’t help it, but she is a little bit racist. It had to be today, of course, everyone is thinking about it, that’s what it’s for.

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Slow learners

December 18, 2017 Posted in Alberto, Shlomit, Ulpan4 Comments

Vera said, for everyone to hear, ‘Jews want money, of course,’ and laughed.

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Little Miss Sunshine

December 8, 2017February 6, 2018 Posted in Alberto, Friends, Nathan, Rufina, Shlomit, Ulpan10 Comments

She killed more bees, just so she could fill the tiny bee graves she’d dug.

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Last day at the ulpan

November 13, 2017November 13, 2017 Posted in Alberto, Friends, Ludmilla, Nathan, Rufina, Shlomit, Ulpan1 Comment

She danced with Alberto, I don’t know why, the joy and sadness of the occasion, I suppose.

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No picnic

October 16, 2017November 14, 2017 Posted in Alberto, Food, Friends, gay, leaving Tel Aviv, mansoon, Nathan, Rufina, Sex, Ulpan5 Comments

She lies on a rug with Alberto, they are playful with each other, then nap, their bodies touching, like incestuous twins.

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The day after the attack on Westminster

October 12, 2017 Posted in Rufina, Shlomit, UlpanLeave a comment

This is a nation of shruggers, it is the answer given to many questions…

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Ulpanation

August 30, 2017October 2, 2017 Posted in beach, Ludmilla, Nathan, Rufina, Shlomit, Ulpan, Uncategorized4 Comments

She looked disgusted, as if I’d admitted to a taste for rat, or beetroot, or something.

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Joonatan and the Art of War

August 24, 2017October 2, 2017 Posted in Friends, Megan, Ulpan, Uncategorized3 Comments

He carries, at all times, a beautiful modern edition of The Art of War, which he reads during the break.

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Why are we here?

August 9, 2017February 4, 2022 Posted in Alberto, beach, Friends, Leaving London, Megan, Moving, Nathan, Rufina, Shlomit, Ulpan, UncategorizedLeave a comment

I ask if there’s anything that connects us, the new immigrants. ‘We didn’t fit in at home?’ says Megan, in that way that makes statements sound like questions.

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Alvin

August 7, 2017August 8, 2017 Posted in Alvin, Ulpan, Uncategorized3 Comments

The man said, ‘I hate Jews.’ Alvin said ‘Ok’, and continued showing the property…

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My first day at the ulpan

July 31, 2017August 25, 2017 Posted in Alberto, Alvin, Nathan, Shlomit, Ulpan3 Comments

It is my first day at the ulpan, and the first time I spend with people in a common cause since I arrived in November, three months earlier, unless you count queuing at the Ministry of the Interior, that is.

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Loop de loop

July 19, 2017August 25, 2017 Posted in beach, Ulpan, Uncategorized1 Comment

Everyone’s eyes were on it, their heads moving with it like at a tennis match.

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Manta Ray

July 11, 2017August 25, 2017 Posted in Alberto, beach, Ben, Food, Friends, Nathan, Rufina, Shlomit, Ulpan, UncategorizedLeave a comment

We may be the definition of rootless cosmopolitans, citizens of the world.

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Ludmilla

June 20, 2017January 29, 2018 Posted in Alberto, Alvin, beach, Ludmilla, Megan, Nathan, Olive Korner, Rufina, Saarit, Shlomit, Ulpan, Uncategorized2 Comments

She looks behind her, as if to remind everyone of something, and flicks her hair, like a pony flicks its mane.

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A moist lesbian

June 20, 2017August 7, 2017 Posted in Food, gay, Megan, Nathan, Saarit, Ulpan, Uncategorized3 Comments

She would like to open a bicycle cooperative in Tel Aviv, which is about the most lesbian thing anyone could do, possibly.

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A year in Tel Aviv

I arrived in Israel from London in November, slightly dazed. The process of getting here had been smooth, maybe too easy. What would I do here? What would I find? Who would I meet? Would I stay?

This blog is my attempt to answer those questions. The posts aren’t in any sort of chronological order.

White Meat, by the way, is what
Israelis call pork.

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