Pesah, Spanish and plans ahead

Lel Haseder at the El Lobo Hostel...

LOCATION: BOLIVIA

Peash in La paz was a unique experience for me, when over 150 Israelis did the Seder and some of them read aloud the Hagada in the "El Lobo" Israeli restaurant. Yesterday was my last Spanish lesson for a while and Ill try to converse with the locals from now on.

Saturday night was the big night! Yep, my first Seder abroad promised a very unique experience and I was ready for anything…Before the evening, Me and Sam was wandering around the market and we met two Israeli nice guys (Gil and Dror) that were also staying in our Hostel. It seems that Oded was trying to sell his ticket to the Resturant´s Seder because he planned to do it with his friends in a 5-star hotel. Earlier Gil bought the ticket thinking Dror would want to go to the Lobo, and things were not as he tought…So, after failing in selling the ticket, Sam took the invitation ticket and at 19:30 we entered the Lobo. There was enough place for everybody, and the seder was performed more or less according to the tradition…It was quite funny, as this was the first time for me to realize how many kinds of ways there are to read this Hagada… Even in the army don´t remember so much mess in reading one 2o something page book…
The food was nice, and more than that, it was more than enough. Sam was asking lots of questions (after he looked at the Hagada up side down…It was quite hilarious!) and enjoyed the feast…It was a nice experience for him and also for me, and we returned to the hostel to reorganize for the Saturday night party. I´ve met Hanna in the hostel and together we walked to Mungus, the bar we were last night (Gerald flew that morning to Quito, Ecuador, in order to meet his brother there..) and drank a nice White Russian, which I didn´t drank for so a long time..! Things started to warm up near midnight, and we danced on the totally cramped dance floor…it was so cramp, that you could feel everybody were dancing together as one unit and it was so special (even though now one would have said no for an additional half a meter more of space…). It was an amazing total loss of control, while the wood floor was cranking under several dozens locals and tourists, drunken and semi drunken jumping up and down to the tunes coming from the numerous fine speakers…
At approx 1:30 am Sam, Holi and Luke came in after out side for 20 min (!) for there was no room for nobody!
At 3:00 me and Hanna decided that´s enough for us, and went to say goodbye form Holi and Sam, as they took off the day after to Copacabana, on the shores of lake Titicaca, near the border with Peru. It was a very emotional moment, and a sad one too…we were doing a lot of stuff together and it was quite hard to part…
The day after was a cool one, while I was trying to plan what Im gonna do the next day after finishing my last lesson, which was between 18-20 in the evening…After the lesson, I´ve met with Roman, an Australian guy, that plans to climb the Huayna Potosí, a 19,974 feet (6.088 m) mountain with a tour agency..Ill see what happens and were things are going…
Chao for now