Jerusalem

[metavlad]

Its interesting how different parts of this city are such polar opposites of themselves. There's a few sidestreets in the center of down that seem straight out of a movie. You feel like you're in the center of the club district of a huge city...probably BECAUSE YOU ARE. There's a hippie drum circle and the huge chain coffee shop next to the tiny

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[supernova_7]

Did I ever tell you that I went to Jerusalem for 2 weeks when I was younger?

I was probably 8 I think... 3rd grade or so, before I moved to Germantown. It's funny how different an experience you can have with a difference of a decade or so.

The area hadn't erupted into violence the way it did in the late 90's, there were no soldiers on every street corner.

My biggest fear was chicken pox (got it the day after we arrived) or getting lost in the market we always went to and not being able to find my way back to St. George's where my dad was staying.

In the market, I lost a stuffed animal pizza dude who turned inside out into his own oven.

I still have a t-shirt in my closet of snoopy dressed up with a jamulka and carrying the israeli flag.

A couple years later that market we shopped at was suicide bombed.

[reddragon8802]

My roommate is from Jerusalem. And I don't really have anything more of substance to say other than that (I should be writing a paper).