Hello, friends!
So you'll never guess where I am...wait, did I hear someone say coffee shop? Yep, you got it! I don't ever know how you figured it out.

So, tragically, the only places I've found near campus with internet access are now password-protected, so if I want to check emails and update here I have to trek to a coffee shop. Ah well. Such is life!

Yesterday was quite the wedding-oriented day. First I went to the tichel party of one of my friends and apartment mates. (A tichel is a headscarf; religious women cover their hair after they get married, usually with either a tichel or a sheitel, a wig). The tichel party was so much fun. She tried on all the tichels we got her and modelled them for us. I really enjoyed the little celebration, and I'm excited for her wedding in a couple of weeks! Speaking of weddings, after the tichel party, I went to a wedding in Bnei Brak! Bnei Brak is a very religious community near Tel Aviv. The wedding was of my roommate's cousin, and it was beautiful. Getting there was a bitof an adventure. We left much later than we meant to, and we ended up having to take a later bus. We were sure we'd missed the actual ceremony, since it is usually pretty short. We finally got to the hall, but we couldn't find the wedding, and no one we ran into spoke English (unlike in Jerusalem, where almost everyone speaks English). Anyway, I was at least able to understand the woman telling me "lo po" ("not here") and she pointed us in the right direction. When we FINALLY found the right place, it turned out that the wedding hadn't started at all...hooray! The wedding itself was really cool, though I mainly couldn't understand a thing that was going on because the chuppah was surrounded by men in tall black hats and everything was in Hebrew (how rude, right?!). The bride was sweet, and very young (20), and it was a lovely wedding.