so much to say.

well, let's see.

It's early tuesday morning, and I've got a quiz in Hebrew class today, so I got up early to study, which I will do RIGHT after I finish this post.
On Friday I went to the market again, and this time I took a picture and a video.

The video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In2Mc9e52Vg

I bought too much food, but hey, I won't have to go shopping for a while. I also mixed up the words for 1/4 and 1/2, and bought a half kilo (little over a pound) of Parmesan cheese instead of a 1/4 kilo. Oh well.
Saturday afternoon, I went to the Israel Science Museum, where there happened to be the Body Worlds Exhibit, which I totally didn't know was even here now. Anyway, I did go to see it, and it was kinda weird/interesting. Some of the most amazing parts were the ones where they filled arteries and veins with a poly mer then removed the flesh... the delicate network, especially in the fingertips and the intestines was just incredible. Anyway, there was a sign that said no photography... but I did sneak one picture. Because maybe not everyone wants to see people w/o their skin on, I'm just going to link to the picture here:
http://www.freewebs.com/knowledge_sharers/PHOT0025.JPG
This set of three people playing poker (note the passing of an Ace under the table) makes a cameo in the James Bond film Casino Royal.
The science museum proper was quite nice. Not nearly as big as the London one, but pretty well done. In particular, they have a puzzle room with oversize wooden puzzles that was one of the best collections I've seen. The biggest disappointment was that there were many "push teh button" exhibits which were not working. They also had a really great outdoors area, with a really fun energy storage toy using a big flywheel... see the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvgIpXHL-ms

There was also a great sound wave demo, like one they have at all the cool science museums, but this time i got a video of it, available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4itkvYnuGQ

Then, later that night I went to the German Colony, a sorta touristy place in Haifa, and ran into some friends from class, so I joined them for a dessert at one of the outdoor seating restaurants. I came back to the area on Sunday, looking for a church that someone told me about, but couldn't find it. Then, however, I was able to take some pictures, as well as visit the Haifa subway, the only underground in Israel. It was definitely interesting, but I'm afraid I didn't get too many very good pictures due to the fact that I was kinda freaking out about having just lost my camera case. I set it down with my map somewhere and I have no idea what happened to it.

More pictures have been posted at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2070049&id=141300373&l=2197b4bfdc