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This is going to be the last self-indulgent entry. Thank god.
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Recalling the events that have taken place since I came to Israel is quite a painful thing for me. Until this moment I was always The Prince, except in 7th grade. After the point I walk onto that plane in Memphis the course of my life changes utterly. I was a straight-edged Vegetarian liberal when I got on that plane. Id done some drugs and drinking, sure, but it was certainly the exception and not the rule. I never smoked weed until I came to Israel. Put concisely: my personality tests shifted in 3 years from type A to type B and from extrovert to introvert.

See there was an implicit assumption in my mind before I came to Israel that Israel was like heaven or something. I was indoctrinated by USY, Jewish Day School, Jewish sleepover camp, my parents, my parents friendsbasically my whole life I was taught: Go to Israel and live happily ever after. I have a got of outrage for all of that now. Enough to turn me against Judaism.

I came to Israel and the Intifata started a month later. Understand: Everyone at this point believed that peace was about to be established and this was before the high tech stocks stopped their endless souring. Israels economy these days is based on high tech. The beginning of the Intifata hurt tourism deeply, that alone would have deeply damaged the economy to the point of a recession. That and the high tech crash along with the event of 9-11 sent the Israeli economy into a DEPRESSION the likes of which were mirrored by my own personal depression.

And there we lingered together Israel and I - for 3 years. Of this time period of fear and loathing (popularly known as the Al Aqsa Intifata), I will not here speak.

Around January of this year it became clear that the economy was recovering. Around January I discovered SG. My depression ended at the same time that the countries depression ended and I started getting off drugs. At this point Im not even using Cigs and coffee anymore.

When I went to IDC I had no idea what I was getting myself into. My school is a powerhouse in Israel. We have political leaders on the left as teachersright wing sentiments are unheard of on campus. And the guy who started and runs the whole show is single-handed responsibly for the reshaping of the government voting system that occurred a few years back.

If I still craved power upon my arrival here I would probably be well on my way to having quite a lot of it right now. I go to school with ambassadors sons and daughters to Israel from all over the world.

Ive been drunk with the Dean of Computer Science who used to teach at the university of Pennsylvania, 3 times. Ironically we both like discussing AI when we are drunk.

My school is such a surreal experience for me. I expected to go to a large college and live the typical American Pie style college life after high school. That was my dream for years. The reality of what happened was far different.

The (penthouse) apartment that the school put me up in can accommodate 5 people, and every years the stupid bastards try to put 5 people in it. At most 3 people can live here in comfort. Dont ask me why but 5 never works out.

Maintaining my sanity in this apartment with the drugs addicts, date-rapists, and generally psychotic people Ive been forced to live with here has been a tenacious effort at best. For the longest time my moto was if you cant beat them join them and pretty soon I figured out that if I didnt want to FAIL OUT OF SCHOOL like them Id have to do something more proactive. I eventually had to work some political schemes around the school to remedies the problem and I get a lot of respect now among the faculty as a consequence. Those spineless turds.

Ive survived school here, and I now inhabit the (for the second year of 4) master bedroom sweet in the apartment. But I didnt manage any of this with the tact and good grades I would have done in a CIVILIZED environment. Israelis are fucking Klingons man, let me tell you. Maybe if I just started killing people Id get more respect.

As for Israeli women theyre fucking weird man. They are all like sex sex sex sex sex, sex sex sex sex sex. And then finally your going to be like So, sex? and they turn around and are like OH MY FUCKING GOD, YOU SICK PERVERT!!!. I dont get it. If Ive ever gotten anywhere with an Israeli chick its usually cause shes grabbed me all of a sudden and started sucking face.

In short, Israel has been nothing at all like what I expected and its changed my views on life 100%. Im a meat eating libertarian who has spent several years in Chaotic conditions now. My sensibilities can handle just about anything at this point and Ive seen some pretty fucking disgusting shit. Ive also been forced to live on Pizza, beer, ice-cream, and hamburgers for so long that when I get out of this place I swear Ill eat Sushi and tofo for the rest of my life!!!!

This one thing I must say, to their credit, Israelis can party like no one else. If you come to live in Israel to party hard, youve come to the right place. Anytime, ANYTIME, I want to go to a good party around here I can. Anything goes at most of them as well. If youve ever been in Israel and seen how hot most Israelis are then you can only imagine how amazing that can be. I once saw 20 naked people at the top of some portable lift 2 stories in the air on the beach at a public party in Tel-Aviv one night for Independence day dancing to electronic music.

It can be one hell of a ride, and Ive ridden it a few times now. Waking up in some-motherfucker-who-you-dont-knows house in some town youve never heard of with no money whatsoever on you will, however, change your perspective on all of that.

I have much more to say but I dont want to go overkill into the life that I am still living. I would only add that I can fully relate to the Vampire Armands feelings about changing directions in life so often and radically and having lived several different, almost contradictory, lives. But I must say that there have been at least one cord that has run through all of these changes of setting: I swear by my life and my love of it that I will live for no man nor ask any other man to live for my sake.