Channeling Benji
If only I had Benji’s writing skills, I’d really have a great post for today. Bear with me…
Coming home on the bus there was a girl in her 20’s (tall, long tanned legs, short shorts…) who had just made Aliyah sitting across the aisle from me. A studly Israeli got on and sat down facing her. He strikes up a conversation with her in very accented English.
So what do you do in Israel?
Ahh you learn in Ulpan?
How long you here?
She enjoyed talking to him, and never once tried any Hebrew. There was a bit of a discussion about what she had learned in Ulpan (not “Eich Korim Lcha” only “Ma Shimcha”…and even that she couldn’t say)
Then the best line: “You have friend here in Israel?”
Her reply: “Yes I have friends here…”
Him: “No, you have friend here in Israel?”
I was going to bust out laughing, but I just looked around to see who else was enjoying this conversation. Unfortunately for him, she got off the bus at the same stop I did. I don’t know if he even got the answer to that question.
LOL.
I love to express my self in writing but when I read blogs such as Benji and others. I realize how terrible my writing is and how evident it is that I to have an LD. Sheesh.
Comment by Orli — September 7, 2008 @ 10:40 am
Holy falafel balls! What a nice thing to read upon returning to the Holy Land! Thanks! : )
More importantly, is this girl single, cute, and into self-deprecating Texans? Just curious…
Comment by Benji — September 27, 2008 @ 9:38 pm