Sunday, October 25, 2009

Visitor

I'm so excited for my closest friend, Blaise David Lipman Embry, to visit in December. We'll be traveling around Israel, Jordan and Egypt. What a little Hanukkah miracle.


Thursday, October 15, 2009

End of Ulpan; beginning of Holiday

Literally 12 hours after I took my final Hebrew exam on September 24th, I was on a plane to Munich! On my two-week trip I visited Munich, Paris, Prague and Berlin.


Paris bike tour

Paris

At the Musée d'Orsay with one of my favorite Manet paintings

Xavier Veilhan's installation at Versailles. In my opinion, the most beautiful piece of art in the entire place.





Prague



Monument to those who lost their lives and sanity because of Communism



Giant metronome



My Prague hostel



One of my favorite place in Prague: the Kampa Museum of Modern Central European Art.



View of the river from the Kampa Museum



Creepy babies



Me and creepy baby



Creepy babies on the TV Tower


Quaint little town outside of Munich


Post-Octoberfest crowd in Munich


Berlin with the best tour guide ever-Zach!



Berlin Wall: 20 year anniversary of its destruction



Jewish Museum in Berlin



Museum Island: my heaven



Seeing the Gates of Bablyon was quite possibly one of the happiest days of my life



Pergamon in Berlin



Favorite Modern Art Museum in Berlin: Berlinische Galerie



Berlinische Galerie



Memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust



Inside the Holocaust memorial



I had an amazing time in Europe visiting museums, monuments and some friends I made at Hebrew University this past summer.