ok, you guys??

Woah. Just, woah. Yesterday we had a siyur to a moshav right outside of the Ben Gurion Airport, which im gonna be honest was kind of boring but we learned about Thai workers working in farms in Israel which was kind of interesting and i spent 12 minutes trying to understand our guide when he kept saying "thais" and I kept hearing "ties" and it totally didnt make sense in context and then after 12 minutes i realized i was an idiot.

Hows that for a great sentence?!?! haha

Here comes the woah part: after we went to the moshav, Ricky took us to the Eretz Yisrael museum to see the World Press photo 09 exhibit, a photojournalist competition with submissions from all around the world. Mom and Joel, I'm really, really really really sorry. Im sorrier than I was about taking you to Ice Space. It's that bad, becuase this exhibit was THAT good. Ive had the privlege to see quite a few photography exhibits in my life, good ones at that, but you guys?? This is the best exhibit I have probably seen in my life.

I'm gonna link you to the website for press photo, so you can just get a taste of what was in this exhibit (and this exhibit was HUGE, and not only included the world press photos but local ones too which was even more moving/touching/inspiring/heartbreaking)

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=blogsection&id=19&Itemid=223&bandwidth=low

They're seperated by category, but holy MOTHER this was an amazing exhibit. My favorite picture was taken by Yasuyoshsi Chiba, who is, i believe, Japanese but works out of Kenya. You can't tell on the website how stunning this picture is, but when its blown up to about 5 ft by 4 ft on a black background, the red pops and it is just SO visually stunning, I was blown away. I must have stared at it for 10 minutes. It was also just so much of a reminder that its the 21st century, and these men are still fighting with bows and arrows. As much as I hate fighting, when you're surrounded by images of highly-technologically-advanced war as I am every day here, it was somehow inexplicably comforting...beautiful? (that sounds weird but I cant really explain it better) to see an area of the world so untouched by that. And the visuals of it, just stunning. I'm still trying to figure out why a picture of war was my favorite, but I'll let you know.

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=1429&type=byname&Itemid=224&bandwidth=high

(link to my fave photo)


Ok, thats all for now. Just wanted to give you a rundown on my day yesterday.

We also sat around last night and made hot cocoa and watched Elf, which we've been trying to do for awhile. That was Realllllly fun.

Miss yalll....