Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Mission to the Israeli Consulate- 8/24/11

So I make it to the Israeli Embassy at 11:00.  I decide to take a photo of the Embassy thinking no harm can be done.  I walk very calmly to the guard and I say, "Hello."  He immediately asks why I am taking a photo of the embassy and he is looking at me like I am a spy or I may attack the Israeli Embessay with my puny self.  YEA RIGHT!! I just tell him its for personal use.  So, he has me wait by a door and then another very unfriendly guy greets me.  He looks at my passport and he doesn't believe it's me.  Maybe, I have lost a lot of weight and my hair is a lot longer but come on!!  So, I give him my license and everything becomes all good.

I make it to the office and the teller is beautiful, blonde hair and blue eyes.  Then out of nowhere a woman tries to get in the door behind me.  She gets in and she is the most georgeous woman I remember seeing in a very long time.  Blonde hair, blue eyes, drop dead georgeous, not wearing any makeup to cover up that butter face like most women need to do. 

Anyways, a man walks in after her.  At this time there is a woman being helped, but she  is done and the guy goes to the window clearly butting in line over me.  The georgeous woman starts arguing with him, sticking up for me and how I have been in line waiting and he just ignores her.  That is Israeli culture right their in front of me.  I read about Israel that people talk to eachother very bossy as in they are brother and sister but the minute you need help, they will help.  Anyways, after that little incident I am very culture shocked, but when I make it to Israel, I will be laid back but the minute someone butts me again I will not hesitate to give them a hip bump to move them out of the way even if it is a 1000 pound man!  So, now it is my turn and I have no documents which I find out I should have brought.  So, no visa for me.

But, when I go to Israel, I get a visa for the program but when I get a job I need to make Aliyah so I can work there full time.  To do that I need a birth certificate and a letter from my rabbi.  With Aliyah citizenship I  have gathered that your looked very highly upon.

1 comment:

  1. Welcome to Israeli Culture 101! Reading this blog should be a memory card to me in taking certain things with a grain of salt once I get there. This reminds me of a poster from one of my math classes: "LIFE is 10% how you make it and 90% how you take it."

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