An uncanny magnetism.
That's what I have--at least, that's what I have for touring the world's hospitals and future doctors.
Here I attempt a tangentially related travel post. Anyway, perhaps it's one of those big jokes on me, or perhaps I've missed my true calling (what a pity *said with purposefully understated sarcasm*). Consider the facts: I personally have a big problem with doctors (long story), my parents would like me to become a doctor, I took an aptitude test after finishing up my four years of university and found out I should be a doctor (who believes those things anyway?)...and then, the majority of my friends or people I hang out with (we must always keep these differences in mind!) are interested in medicine, pre-med and/or currently on their way to becoming doctors.
And thus, everytime I travel to visit friends, be it in Ireland or Israel, or more domestically, in Michigan or California...I end up spending hours upon days in hospitals--eating foods in their cafeterias, walking about the grassy areas that they use to cheer up patients and workaholic staffers alike...I also often end up in large gatherings of a frightful species--the medical student.
Maybe it's just G-d's way of mocking my diminishing capacity to remember the specific differences between meiosis and mitosis, let alone the more complicated intricacies that are best described in latin jargon...
In any case, I just thought I'd ramble off on that tangent before inserting a tiny update on how things stand here thus far...I had a great tour around Be'er Sheva today, my health is doing a lot better (I should be in top fasting form--if all goes well), and tomorrow I head off to Jerusalem after (hopefully) touring the Ethiopian Jews' crafts center here...
Ah yes, the Ethiopian Jews. When I was in France I saw this film "Va, Vis, et Deviens" I believe it was called, about the Israeli government's effort to bring the Ethiopian Jews back to Israel as well as their rocky assimilation into Israeli society. Frankly it is amazing to see such a diversity of Jews here in Israel--it's something that I believe most American Jews are not at all exposed to. Here there are Asian, Indian, Ethiopian, Moroccan (lots of North African), Algerian, Tunisian, Russian, Spanish, etc, etc...Black, White, Brown, Orange, Red, Yellow, every skin color--all Jews. It is normal to see a whole group of children of all different ethnicities walking down the streets together, little kids holding hands and talking Hebrew. Here I feel like there is so much greater acceptance of diversity and variety within Judaism. And I really appreciate it.
Here I attempt a tangentially related travel post. Anyway, perhaps it's one of those big jokes on me, or perhaps I've missed my true calling (what a pity *said with purposefully understated sarcasm*). Consider the facts: I personally have a big problem with doctors (long story), my parents would like me to become a doctor, I took an aptitude test after finishing up my four years of university and found out I should be a doctor (who believes those things anyway?)...and then, the majority of my friends or people I hang out with (we must always keep these differences in mind!) are interested in medicine, pre-med and/or currently on their way to becoming doctors.
And thus, everytime I travel to visit friends, be it in Ireland or Israel, or more domestically, in Michigan or California...I end up spending hours upon days in hospitals--eating foods in their cafeterias, walking about the grassy areas that they use to cheer up patients and workaholic staffers alike...I also often end up in large gatherings of a frightful species--the medical student.
Maybe it's just G-d's way of mocking my diminishing capacity to remember the specific differences between meiosis and mitosis, let alone the more complicated intricacies that are best described in latin jargon...
In any case, I just thought I'd ramble off on that tangent before inserting a tiny update on how things stand here thus far...I had a great tour around Be'er Sheva today, my health is doing a lot better (I should be in top fasting form--if all goes well), and tomorrow I head off to Jerusalem after (hopefully) touring the Ethiopian Jews' crafts center here...
Ah yes, the Ethiopian Jews. When I was in France I saw this film "Va, Vis, et Deviens" I believe it was called, about the Israeli government's effort to bring the Ethiopian Jews back to Israel as well as their rocky assimilation into Israeli society. Frankly it is amazing to see such a diversity of Jews here in Israel--it's something that I believe most American Jews are not at all exposed to. Here there are Asian, Indian, Ethiopian, Moroccan (lots of North African), Algerian, Tunisian, Russian, Spanish, etc, etc...Black, White, Brown, Orange, Red, Yellow, every skin color--all Jews. It is normal to see a whole group of children of all different ethnicities walking down the streets together, little kids holding hands and talking Hebrew. Here I feel like there is so much greater acceptance of diversity and variety within Judaism. And I really appreciate it.
posted by IJW at 9:20 PM
2 Comments:
I also took one of those tests after university - it said that I should be a dictionary editor. I didn't even know that was a job but it sounds terribly boring.
Slovenia is rockin' - I'm renting a car and taking off on a road trip. Sweeeet.
-Money
Hey, dictionary editors are pretty swinging--I would so like to be one.
That's really cool about the diversity in Israel. And you get to be there during the High Holiday! Neat... I would really like to visit Israel someday...and know Hebrew.
-Amy
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