4/29/13
Yesterday was a fantastic day! I had to be up at 8am, the
absolute EARLIEST that I’ve had to be awake in the past 2 months. It was a hard, but what a pay-off…I FINALLY HAD SOMETHING TO DO!!! Rehearsal for a
TV comedy show that I’ll be dancing in tomorrow! I have to be up at 5:30am for
this one in order to get to the station by 7…wish me luck!
I got to rehearsal and was barely alive let alone coherent
(not to mention COMPLETELY lost in the foreign language I still don’t speak).
We entered the studio and began stretching, as professional dancers tend to
instinctively do, when the choreographer walked in, laughed, and assured us
that that wouldn’t be necessary. We learned 3 quick easy numbers and ran them a
few times each for about 2 hours, then were released. “This is swell!” I told
myself, still sleepy yet satisfied with my effort (anymore just would’ve been
too much!) It always feels great to get up, and have somewhere to be, but to
then be released early? Life is good!
My friends and I took advantage of the free afternoon,
grabbed lunch, and vegged out for a minute. This was maybe the hottest day
Israel has seen this year, paired with such an early morning we were all in
rare form…slightly delusional. Being from Miami, I am use to heat but this heat
came with a desert dryness that kept you thirsty. Still with time to spare
before my friend had to teach a class he decided to take his girlfriend and I
to one of his secret spots in Petach Tikwa (The “Western” suburb I mentioned a
few blogs ago, except that it is, in fact, Eastern…The “Western Suburb” of
Israel would actually be known as The Mediterranean Sea). It was an amazing
Nature Reservation surrounding one of Israel's main water sources. We basked in
the shade of a giant tree next to a pond, green with lily pads, and sat like
children playing word games, singing, and back-up dancing for each other.
On the verge of dehydration, we decided to leave our little
piece of heaven on Earth for some much needed refreshments, and of course, like
children with a little allowance money in our pockets we left the corner store
with 3 cases of water, 10 popsicles (They were 10 for 10 Shekels!), and a
little bag of gummy sharks. We went back to my friend’s house and finished our
popsicles while lying on our backs on the refreshingly chilled tile. It was a
nostalgic flashback to one of those perfect “first day of summer” days…I can’t
really tell if it was a flashback of my own life or of the movie Now And Then...regardless, it was nothing less than marvelous!
Wish you were here!
~S
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