Sorry in advance...

When my roomates returned from Jordan they told me what a cool experience it was..how beautiful it was..and how to them it really helped define the fact that we are IN Israel, In the middle east.

Well I told everyone from home the way I would define my being here..something that to me is just so - Israeli. Whats that?

Oh ya - a nose piercing.

So...I got it!

Yesterday (Wed) after class, I round up my roomies and Jen's boyfriend and we went down to Disengoff mall - where lots of other people from my school had gotten peicings!
Jen got hers before so she went with me to make sure everything was ok. Its only 100 sheckles at one place and I heard good things so I went there.

Well maybe it was kharma for defying everyones wishes because in Jens words "It was the most barbaric peircing ever". The guy LOOKED like he knew what he was doing - he tatooed a girl right before me! But the proces..was jsut wayyy longer than it needed to be. First he stuck a needle in my nose, then he stuck a tube in it to feed the peircing thru and then he spent 20 minutes trying to get the stud onto the peircing. The look on Jen's face when he was doing all this was priceless. Normally its a 5 minute thing, they look the peircing thru and feed the tube out at the same time. Well let me tell you this draged onnnn and kind of took all the fun excitement out of it. AND it really hurts when u have a man squeezing ur newly swollen nose trying to tie this thing on.

But...it looks great!! it looks really natural! It hurt alot yesterday and still is a little weird today but I'm so happy!

In order to celebrate, we went to this hummus place right next to the mall - its like a hidden spot that Dan's parents (israeli) said is the best. Its just a small hebrew place and they give you free pita to go with the ordered hummus. We got hummus with pine nuts, tahina and israeli salad with tahina. AMAZING!! They also had this really spicy sauce and everyone was wowing at how much I put on my pitas!
Prob best meal yet and only like 12 sheckles a person for all of it! Yummm

After we went to a stand next door where u pick your fruit/chocolate and they mix it into a frozen yogurt. I got mango, peach, white and dark chocolate mix and strawberries. Wow. Talk about a celebratory meal!

I came back to the dorms and showed everyone..some people dont even notice because it looks like I've had it forever. I'm bout to run to the store to pick up cotton swabs so I can dip salt water into it to keep it from being infected.

Im sure pictures will surface soon enough :)

So should I keep it in until I return home or will it be out in a month? We'll see...!!