12/19/2013

Last day of placement! While everyone else has been annoyed and confused by me being in the hospital the past 3 weeks, Kobi(the PT that I met yesterday) was thrilled to show me the Israeli medical system and organised a second day at the hospital for me. I spent today on the internal medical ward, the trama ward, and the orthopedic ward. It was a wonderful last day. The last two days were worth the rest of the placement. 

I left at 2 and finally made it to דיזנגוף house, to see where Israel was declared a state in 1949. I bought a helmet. On my way which was relatively cheap and will work for my bike trip. The tour company rents bikes but not helmets, how weird. 

I stopped for my first Italian experience in Israel and got lunch at 3:45pm. Late lunch is good because it is still inexpensive and there are several solo people to talk to. The bar tender and the owner were friendly but I got the feeling that they were trying to steal my stuff so I didn't stick around too long.

When I got home Estella gave me more food which I didn't need but ate anyway. I was tired and took a bit of a nap. I was planning on sleeping all night but Estella threw me out and made me celebrate my last night in tel aviv. I met a girl from Hobart and several other people from all over the world. We went on a pub crawl that showed the dynamic tel aviv night life. I had fun but I think 1 night out at the clubs in Tel Aviv was plenty. There is way too much smoking in tel aviv and the clubs are the worst.