Things that make me say "lo tov"

Driving is more of a sport than a method of getting from one place to another. If there is even a rulebook about driving laws, it most definitely instructs Israelis to drive as aggressively as possible. This of course means that drivers are rewarded for whatever they can plow into based on the point system, such that small animals are roughly 50 points, pedestrians are 150, tourists are 300, runners and joggers are 500 (shout out to the jackass who drove onto the sidewalk and narrowly missed sidechecking me on Saturday), and buses are negative 200 points. Speed limits, traffic lights, signs, lanes, sidewalks, and one-way streets are merely suggestions, and very loosely enforced. It makes every trip across the street an adventure, and I do believe that living in Baltimore for 4 years helped train me for the fight.
I’m pretty sure there used to be a mouse problem in Israel that they tried to solve by introducing cats, because there’s a major feline infestation here. Cats are literally everywhere, overrunning the streets and breaking into people’s houses to steal tuna and eat human babies alive. That being said, I think it’s a little weird that there is a whole cat room at the animal shelter. Seriously, who wants to adopt a cat? All you need to do is dig through the nearest dumpster and you’ve got your new pet.
Due to the nature of my Ulpan course being 2 ½ months rather than the traditional 5 or 6, we’re moving at a very rapid pace. I can now not only state that I am student in Ulpan, but that Moshe said that he likes to learn Hebrew in Ulpan in the morning. It’s pretty exciting to put together such complex sentences.