These are my first two room mates, Bar and Ido. I've talked about both of them in my blog already. They are amazing people, very intelligent, funny, welcoming. Ido reminds me a lot of my friend Sean Wilkinson, and so I was immediately very fond of him. We made sushi!
This is a sample of some of the amazing graffiti that colours this city. Both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are gigantic works of art.
Who would have thought? Spencer Janssen, a close friend from Dawson Creek, visiting me in Palestine. In this photo we are in Jaffa, Tel Aviv. It had been four years since we had last seen each other, and agreed that our lives had happened during that time. We are mutually proud of the lives the other has been living, and reconnected as if no time had passed. Spencer and I talked, four years earlier, about the lives we wanted to live, and we were able to rejoice about how true we have been to our dreams.
This is a photo from the political tour of Jerusalem that I participated in. Behind us is the Annexation Wall, separating Palestine from Israel.
This is the same tour, where we also saw first hand the house demolitions that are all too common in East Jerusalem. Due to the lack of a "master plan" for housing construction in Palestinian Jerusalem, it is next to impossible to acquire a permit to build or expand a house owned by a Palestianian. Therefore, houses are regularly issued demolition notices, the date for which is ambiguous. Some families live for years in anticipation of their home being destroyed. There is no information about when (and if) a master plan will be developed for these neighborhoods.
Even within the demolished houses, some can find a home.
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