First impressions

Summarizing:

So, one waits 10 hours in Barcelona airport before entering the flight to Tel Aviv - Ben Gurion. This is what i do in an airport... Take stupid pictures of myself sleeping.

Ben Gurion is a nice airport.
Getting a train to Haifa is the easiest thing on Earth. Everyone is very nice and speaks perfect English. After having been among Spanish people for an entire day, I really feel comfortable here. And they are also beautiful.

All Israeli people do military service: at least 2 years for girls and 3 years for boys. Also, they wear their uniforms all the time. I've been told it gives them free bus rides and other advantages. So, all around in the trains you see very young people in uniform, but relaxed as if they wear it since they were born.

Some of them also carry their guns.
(But they really don't look aggressive. Really.)

In the train I hadn't realized yet how hot this country is. It's HOT, the humidity is terrible. Here we are anxious for colder days. You know: 2 or 3 showers a day...

Train -> Bus Station -> Technion

The campus is amazing. It's huge, trees all over, it's beautiful. One can really live here: there are supermarkets, restaurants, bus, etc inside the campus.

As for the religions, there are the Orthodox, the Muslins, the Jewish and the ones that don't really take very seriously.

Attending to the fact that most of people are Jewish, I still feel like one of the girls who really hide their skin and I'm comfortable with it.

The MAKAK - our meeting place - is part of the Canada Dorms, where the students in IAESTE internships live.

The girl on the left is Kyriaki (Sunday in Greek) and we are like soulmates here: we arrived on the same day, work in the same lab and live in the same apartment. Briefly: we're together all the time.

Oh, people here only drink beer and vodka. If you want, you can put beer in your vodka, but never put juice in it, juice ruins every drink.

Haifa is an interesting place where many different people "live happily ever after", in the words of Prof. Yeshayahou Levy (should be read: Eechaiao Levy). The landscape is very irregular, which makes every bus ride very very long.

Here are two stores in the center of the city. First is a falafel and shawarma place. You pay for the meet and then fill and refill your pita with as much vegetables and sauces you want.

This is a candy store.
Oh sweet candy, it's great.

There's no chocolate neither the usual cakes and it's oh so sweet.

Yesterday the Ramadan started, so now the muslims only eat at night.

We went to the Muslim neighborhood at sunset and everyone was sitting in the balconies waiting for the sun to go, so they can start eating.

This is us sitting on the entrance of the neighborhood playing silly.

They are really nice guys.