Friday, April 25, 2014

Falafel with Sophia (Shabbat)

I spent the whole day working on my project. I was trying to increase the quality of video communication, and I couldn't. I need to work more on it.



I went to another Jewish event today. Only four persons were there. I was very shy, and I couldn't talk much. I was very silent. In one hand I really wanted to talk to Sophia. On the other hand, I could understand only 50% of their conversations. I still need lots of improvements to understand English.


They complained that not everybody here takes Jewish traditions seriously. Sophia said, "I wish we were in Israel; we could have our Friday nights there because everybody is Jew there." Another woman there agreed. She said, "I don't like to say this, but America is a kind of Christian country. We are like strangers here. Even Jewish communities are not that active. Friday is not off, and we can't have our traditions every Friday."
I felt that I had the same feeling when I came to the US. There are a few who are Muslims here, and I don't get the feeling about the tradition like I had in Iran. I didn't know that it could be true about other religions.

We ate our dinner there, and Sophia sang another Jewish song. It is very cute when she speaks and sings in Hebrew. It was the song:



I didn't like this video, but since Sophia liked it, I shared it here. I think that the one we sang together was better. I really felt like a stranger here. I had no idea about some subjects that they were talking about, and my English is not that good to understand even the things that I know.

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