Day 116, January 7th, 2011

But life in Israel has also been full of adventures and funny moments in any case life is me and my choices and circumstances but it has also been a 180 full round change from the past and the past had also had its goods and the bad. I had to deal with car problems and mechanical diagnosis and dialogues I don’t know about even in Spanish or English let alone in Hebrew. I broke tires in the most unusual ways and circumstances. I have entered places the wrong way, the way the tires are punched!!.........I have lost the plates to the car and had to go to the police for a statement to be sent to the place where the plates are legally duplicated………….all of these adventures without the language of the land……I bought the second hand car without any idea of what I was getting into and the result ahs been living in the car shops for repair at least once a month….going places and travelling rather long distances with a 95 car in not a very good condition.


I had to endure a 2-3 time, I really don’t remember but I think it was only at the third attempt I got my Israeli driving license after having driven for more than 35 years but again the Israeli standard is not the Peruvians’…..but I went into this one not without my fights and faxes and complaints previous also to special and unique paper work and health check ups because of my operations……..I had fought the TV cable company the cell phone company and even the drivers who dared park in my place for the disabled, condition I got also without the language, my fax being my right hand, my elbows my weapons and my strong will my purpose….not to mention my stay in hospitals and rehab centers again with no language to talk to most nurses!!!!!!!! I have done it all and I think quite well but the learning aspect of my life……..this has been my Aquiles heel, I have overcome it all but my last challenge it seems I am leaving for the last, the better, the final stage of success and joy the bridge to the rest of the people and life, communication……….!! I have driven places and got lost till I had to buy the GPS and even so I got lost too, I have cried my heart out while driving out of desperation of not being able to follow GPS’s directions in my languages….I have gone to doctors and done all sorts of check ups and analysis and the likes, asked for bank loans and car insurance and I don’t speak the language of the land, I have paid bills I don’t read but the international numbers, yes, life has been good and funny. I have started where many Have finished, when others are into other matters……..I am constantly buying food I can’t eat like spicy food I don’t like and I am paying my dues, the dues you pay when you land naked in a land so strange to me…………and so loved