After being here for a little over 2 weeks, we are quickly learning that oranim is probably the most unorganized company in the world. We are supposed to be having intensive ulpan for the first 2 wks before all our internships start, so already we have had 1 day cancelled, and 2 days that were supposed to be 4 hours of instruction cut down to 2 hrs and we have never been at the same school 2 days in a row. We usually don't find any of this information out until about 30 minutes before we need to be somewhere, and one of the schools is about an hour walk from our apartment.

So, yesterday morning, my friend Alex and I decided to wake up around 9 to go to the shook to get some vegetables, fruits, cheese and I wanted a tapestry for my bed to make my room look a little more like home. We take the 40 minute walk up to the shook get there have a nice morning strolling through the shook, then we realize its about 1230 and we need to get back to our apartment, collect our ulpan stuff and then head out to ulpan at the school which is acutally located on penis st that is an hour away...As we are heading out at about 115, we all recieve a text message that ulpan is now not starting until 4. So we are all annoyed as usual but we decide to go to the beach.

But back track a few steps, as Alex and I are running to the bus stop, out of no where this guy in plain clothes comes up to us and says "immigration services" let me see your passports. First off I don't carry my passport around...then we are very skeptical because we all know how many guys pose as cops and rape girls, or could of possibly ran away with Alex's passport. Then we are kind of not giving him full answers and then a guy in uniform appears also out of no where. We try to get on the bus and they completley blockade us. So after this i walk away for a minute closer to the stores behind us and call our group coordinator Tomer, eventually he gets on the phone with these s0-called immigration workers and Alex shows the passport. But they were threatening to arrest us if we didn't show one. So after all that both of us are very shaken up and now thinking we are about to miss Ulpan.

That is my first crazy story from Israel and i am hoping something like that doesn't happen again and I was so happy to be with Alex because if I was by myself I would of been shitting in my pants.

Well right now its another thunderstorm outside :( thats all for now