how everything started

I just left "home" exactly 4months ago. I decided to take the chance of having an internship in media and communication field in Israel, in Middle East.

I registered to a program which found me accomodation in Jerusalem and also supported me with a month of Ulpan in Tel Aviv.
First month I think I was a bit confused, but step by step I started to feel at ease and ready for this another way of life and living, far from home, from family and friends.

I studied hebrew and again i went to classes like in highschool. Was a great experience and I enjoyed a lot. We even had a witness in the class, kelev :) meaning a dog, too old unfortunately but cute enough to get some food of ours in the break time.

Meanwhile, Tel Aviv had a lot to offer...
I lived in the beach area, ( on Hayarkon street); just waking up in the morning and having the sea view, not even 1min far from it.

It was one month of knowing a loooot of new people, ( 80 foreign pple, from the States, France, Hungary, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Australia), time for a lot and good parties, shopping, beach, ulpan (studying hebrew), interesting connections and surroundings, porperly walking my feet off in the city. Tel Aviv is a 24h city, whenever you feel like doing something you just have to move ur a** and the problem is solved.

One month later, I moved to Jerusalem, starting my internship in The Jerusalem Post newspaper, Israel's best selling english daily and most read web site. I started the work in the internet and marketing department. I am still in charge with their socialnetworking site http://www.jhappening.com/, a jewish events site, from the worldwide jewish communities. I am uploading and arranging events on the homne page site, also giving hints on other stories and prgrams for aknowledge and make the site transparent to the communities abroad.

Later on, feeling I need more action, as i am a frustrated person if time shows me only a computer screen:) i decided to apply for my 2nd internship, in a media organization. I just found about this through a conference that I participated in, after the American elections, in Jerusalem.

In the end, they called me for an interview and I decided to take this chance, too. SO...I am absolutely excited and happy with this job! It gives me great opportunity to intereact with foreign journalists who are working as a corespondent for their countries, but from Israel.

Therefore, there are a lot of briefings and conferences, press conferences and trips organized by Media Central, the place i am working and of course, where I help that all these things happen.

But a detailed description of Media Central will be in the next post.
By the way..tomorrow i need to prepare some stuff for a trip in Jenin and Mount Gilboa (places in the North of West Bank), an event which shouldnt be missed by those who are interested in the economical situation in Middle East. But more details in next post...

PS. yes, tomorrow i am working if you were confused by the sentence above..:) here is Shabat from Friday till Saturday evening, so the week starts on Sunday, and my brain wakes up, ready to enjoy Jerusalem traffic and its weird people:)

Have a Good Day! = Iom Tov Leculam - בעלת יום טוב