Luke's First Hostel

This weekend, I headed to Jerusalem where I met up with Kristian one last time. We walked around a little bit, then I checked in to the New Palm Hostel to shower and get a bed set up for the night. We hung out in the hostel a while when, after meeting a couple Australian girls and an Argentinian fellow, we decided to go to a cafe to watch the Germany-Argentina game. If any of you missed it, insane game, Germany rocked Argentina 4-0, the Argentinian we were with was devestated.

Afterwards, we just hung out in the hostel some more. I really like hostels in all honesty. I met people from at least 7 different countries including the States, Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Argentina, etc. A Dutch couple taught me how to play a game called Yanif, they don't know what the name means but they learned it from a random Arab they met in a cafe and taught it to me. Great game, kind of addicting, and can easily break your heart. I spoke to so many of them about random, interesting topics, especially a pair of Americans who were traveling around after studying abroad in France. Today, the three of us headed to Bethlehem and just talked and debated and ate and smoked hookah, all around good time. They headed back to Jerusalem and I headed back here to the farm so now I'm just hanging out, I guess Willy and Thomas got an extra day on their weekend so they aren't back yet today and won't be until tomorrow morning. Just me and Daher tonight.

Hostels are great though: showers, a bed, and a whole mess of random travelers with random stories just like you. I'm definatley planning on hostelizing more often in the future.

Oh, and uh, Happy Fourth of July.