I'm well aware that this blog is kinda living in an abandoned status and I'm like...i care but don't really care like that ? Hee hee
It would have taken sth big for me to break this silence...and big it is indeed
By this posting ... I'm in the midst of my Israel trip, exactly a week has passed since the day we landed...we have now come to stay at the last leg of the trip..Tiberias. Before that we were in Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
Why this trip worth breaking my silence ?
Well...firstly I suppose coz it's my first summer holiday ever ! I never really had summer holiday before...where business is still running like a horse in charge and sun block being made as part of to bring list
It's used to be boots and gloves...now shorts and sunnies are a must
Secondly, it's probably due to the important fact that we are in...Israel...the Holy Land..the land where Jesus walked, breathed, taught, crucified and resurrected. More than anything it feels like a full pilgrimage than holiday.
Thirdly, probably coz it's my...or to be exact our ( me Gill Raimond Jenita Amel) "strangers" trip. Other than TLG, we probably are not affiliated in any other way...not even the same cell group. So everyone is kinda learning and adjusting to the travel behavior of each other. Okay with Jenita as exception as this is like the 4th time that I travelled with her HAHAHAHA
Lastly, where in the world have I ever had a holiday where the traveling starts at 8.30 max and ends as early as lunch at 13.30 PM..leaving us with SO MUCH free time to spent the rest of the evening in the city where WIFI is limited to lobby, the TV goes as boxy as my 1980's TV back then...so do the TV shows....a city where we the metropolitan cultured kiddos would spend most of our free time cozying up at Lobby uploading instagram pics , wadsapping, facebooking and wondering how to spend the rest of the night when the sun goes down only at 8 PM plus..and it doesn't seems like time will travel anytime faster leaving you with the best choice one can ever have that's to sleep by 11 PM... In Jerusalem, we even walked back through via delarosa to our hotel... Experiencing the smell of spices around the neighborhood seeing a good mixed of Jewish, Palestinians and tourists all around the world crowding the old and ancient road.....While at Bethlehem we walked half an hour long to go Bethlehem City Centre for a KFC supper !! Speaking about recharging holiday !!
It's certainly not like the usual kind of holiday where the day started at 10 AM, coming back wrapped up in my shawl and coat, freezing, carrying lots of shopping bag and reaching the hotel or home back at 8 PM or more...tired, drained exhausted
Yeah
and...I feel different.... It doesn't feel like a holiday.... Feels like an adventure..... such a unique free and easy summer holiday experience
And the take aways from the trip ? Well I will read bible thoroughly and.... I shall try to wake up earlier haha
