food! glorious food!

okay so, i didn't do a lot today.  but i did do something very important: grocery shopping.  it's disgusting what i've been eating for the past five days.  nothing but peanut butter, bread, and honey... throw in some milk and water and you got it.  and maybe some falafel here and there.  there's nothing wrong with peanut butter.  in fact, i love peanut butter, crunchy please.  but i cannot subsist on peanut butter and honey alone.  plus the bread that i got here in the beginning is this "dark diet" bread and it's about 50 calories a pop.  so i wasn't getting much in the way of energy.  

so מיסטר זול it was.  i bought some apples, yum.  lots of pasta.  i got a 500 g bag for around a 1$.  i got some chicken soup mix, tomato soup mix...  since my hebrew class didn't teach me a lot of practical hebrew, i had to guess from the pictures what the contents were.  not fun.  got a box of black tea, oatmeal, more bread and some instant pasta mixes.  haha.  i think i'll be living off of pasta and instant stuff.  hopefully not though.  that would be utterly disgusting.  

when i got back, i made one of the instant pasta things.  it's was rice and noodles in the style of chinese.  i kid you not, that is the literal translation.  it took me a while to work through the cooking directions.  the end result was alright.  i modified it with some ketchup and pepper.  it's funny because ketchup seems to be an essential to an israeli college student's pantry.  my suitemates put ketchup on EVERYTHING.  well ketchup is good.  so i'm not complaining.  the taste to this pasta dish was interesting.  it didn't taste very chinese food-y at all.  oh well.  sarah tells me chinese food here is really bad.  i mean, they serve it in a baguette thing.  what?  i know.

tomorrow, i'm going to go into the city.  i should have bought a lonely planet back home but i didn't.  i also need more socks and still in need of hangers.  my suitemates urge me to explore now because when school starts i won't have time to.  they're really nice.  i'm glad i got this suite.  and talking about school, i saw the curriculum for next semester.  I WANT TO TAKE A LOT OF HISTORY & THEORY CLASSES!  they sound amazing.  for example: ruminations of photography: from walter benjamin to roland barthes, the scream: the liminal locus of artistic & poetic representation, the arist: myth & reality, the body as a symbiotic field, etc.  AH!  but the classes are taught in hebrew, i believe.  so we'll see how that works out.  i'm excited nonetheless.

furthermore, i hate rain!