On Monday night, Julie and I went to the local habad for the seder. Julie is jewish and this is actually my second seder as I went to a very casual one last year in San Francisco. We got to the habad and it had beautiful kitchen, dining room etc. The men were praying in another room facing the wall and the women in the dining room. I was a little turned off by the segregation but after the first prayer we all intermixed and it was great!
The story of the Passover was read in three languages! First hebrew, then English, then Spanish. We arrived at 7 pm and by 1030 we had been given a small piece of matzoh to eat. I was starving! Aside from the pace, the seder was a lot of fun. We met tons of traveling israleis, europeans, americans, ecuadorians etc. Everyone was very welcoming and didn´t mind that I didn´t speak hebrew! We sang lots of fun songs and drank this wine that tasted like flate coca cola.
We had arranged for a cab to pick us up at 1030 and at that time I was nearly passing out from lack of food so I went back to the hostel with a plate of food to go (the rabbi´s wife was so sweet!) and Julie didn´t make it home until 1 am. She said they ate at 1130! She is a very good jew!
We made friends with an Israeli/Brittish banana farmer living in Columbia who was at the Seder and also at our hostel. We also met a few American girls studying abroad and tons of Israeli´s traveling.
All in all I had a great time celebrating the passover, and also it was cool to see how laid back Jewish traditions are. Everyone is friends, they drink, they chat, they have a good time!
Now julie cant eat bread for 8 days. woof to that!
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