Today I had some hebrew lessons- just a few words in slang- from Sabach who lives in Jerusalem and is now visiting Holland. He will go to the Graspop festival with a friend and I know him cause we met in the RTN festival in Turkey last year.
Funny thing is that we are both going to the metal festival in Istanbul next weekend!
So we spent a great day in Amsterdam, hanging in some bars and in a park, having a mini picknick and talking about all kinds of subjects. It was really great and we were laughing when the guys were posing for "Immortal" style pictures, I think the rest of the people were wondering what it was all about. We were talking really loud, like Israeli's do a lot of the time ( ask the staff in some of the hotels where OL stayed..) They are known for being loud people, but also great fun to be with!
The guys also wondered about the fact that is was 21.30 and still lots of daylight, cause in Israel you look the other way around 18.30 and suddenly all the daylight is gone in the blink of an eye, this will be mid summer. Here it will not get dark till 22.30 sometimes, especially when the weather is good and it is around June 21st, which is called "the longest day" for the light lingers.....
Sabach was also curious to know my knowledge of hebrew, but I find I am too shy to speak in front of native speakers. It is like I am so afraid to make a mistake! This is the first thing you have to do when learning a language, overcome your fear of making mistakes!
You remember in Berlin Geri, you had the same kind of situation going on there....
Still I am determined to learn.
Great stories in this thread by the way- keep it up
Here are some pics, first one at the Hardrock cafe
Then of our little picknick
I can see it's a very international forum, it's great to have so many people from so different countries
