thu 25.06.

It is thursday! Volunteers' weekend starts from thursday afternoon!

During the flag raising I was wondering how hard can making a line be for a group of adult people. Sure we are not in the army, but maybe we can stood up straight, form a nice lines and keep our mouths shut for couple of minutes. But no.

Again work work work HARD. I did my own job while keeping an eye what other people do, so they dont make mistakes. I almost scream and shout them to pay attention what they are doing. If we pack medical kits and something is missing, someone might die because of our mistake.

Ah, as a strong woman, I also did some men's work, moving and lifting big boxes. Our boss is funny, he always says to us when it is time to quit working: "please, five more minutes and then you can go". Note! It is five Israeli minutes, in Finland it would be like 20-30 minutes. They have their own time in Israel.

After lunch and shower bus takes us to Tel Aviv central bus station. Now we are on our own for the weekend. Free Sar-El hostel, Beitoded, on Jerusalem bulevard in Yafo, is under serious repair works and we can not go there. We will see if the nickname Betteroffdead is history when it opens again some day. So we go to Old Jaffa Hostel again. There has been some sort of mixup with the dates we booked, and we have to wait till the evening to get our room. Atleast we get the first night free! That is very good news.

Warm stuffed bread from the clock tower, walk to the beach. Then I wander around Yafo alone, eat fruits, peanuts, chocolate cookies and have some wine. These birds made really weird noise:

Hostel's roof:

Market place in the evening. Lots of people, stuff, noise till 01:

Our tiny room. It was so small I kept on bumbing on the walls and furniture. Bathroom was so little I had to take my clothes off in the shower cabinet. I could not move if I shut the bathroom door. Yes I know, I really must loose some weight.