Concerts and Tanning!

Last night our whole program went to an Idan Raichal concert in Jerusalem. He is one of the most famous singers/composers/producers in Israel. I had never heard of him, but my friends here from New York love him. He apparently has not hit it big in El Paso! It was a Masa event, which is the agency for long term Jewish programs. Masa has 150 programs and Career Israel is one of them. So there were about 2000 young Jewish people there from throughout the world. Even though I didn't know any of the songs and couldn't even understand them, it was a really fun concert!
Totally random event: I bumped into a guy from El Paso yesterday on the streets of Tel Aviv. I recognized this guy that walked past me, and we both stopped and did a double take. I was staring at him and he was staring at me, and I thought that I was going to make a complete idiot of myself because this was probably just some random Israeli. But I asked him if he was from El Paso and he said yes!! He goes to Temple Mt. Sinai, but he is a few years younger than me. So I don't really know him, but had met him a few times. Talk about it being a small world!
On Tuesday we went to a kibbutz and picked radishes for a charity organization. It was fun getting dirty and picking vegetables in the Israeli sun!
It is absolutely gorgeous here this weekend. Warm and sunny, so Rose and I went to the beach today, which was absolutely packed with people tanning and playing ping pong and volleyball. It could be a beach anywhere in the world. We plan on going back to the beach tomorrow.
I'm excited about Purim. It's like Halloween here..there are costume shops everywhere and all the stores have costume racks. I bought a bumblebee costume! We have a Purim party Monday night and then we have Tuesday completely off from ulpan to celebrate!