cutting great neck

i just didn't have time.

and i am a liar.

ha. okay. well. it stinks. fucking stinks. now i have to remember everything that happened over the last week and my brain has no memory tissue so fuck.

well, a week ago was... friday? but then the movers came friday, i think... so then, on saturday, we just unpacked... and on saturday we did... what?

oh well. i know what we did on MONDAY at least! MANHATTANMONDAY! WOOOHOO! pictures:

we started on broadway, placed my parents at a small cafe with their israeli amigos on broadway, and grandma, sista and i all went for a trip in greenwich village. which is fabulous. it was raining in the morning, so it was all foggy, but then when we were walking it was amazing. there was a warm, rainy smell of asphalt, of manhattan, of flowers. we made turns and twists, toured the village through its italian cafe part, to its asianess, passed houston, and ate in a quaint, small indian restaurant with extra-peppery foodstuff that took about half-an-hour to cook. we walked back to broadway, and when we got there it started to rain. we crossed the street, and then it really started pouring. and i mean, it was as if god was punishing manhattan for being amazing or something--probably the worst rain ive ever seen. droplets the size of your eyeball, something astounding. we hid inside a business building, which had all these famous charity headquarters, like the nation down syndrome organization or something like that, and the guard stared to talk to us and told us that we can't get out of the building and walk on the street in such a rainstorm (there was almost nobody on the street--everybody was hiding insides shops, or under them) in fear that a lightning rod hitting you.

i was laughing, but then he told me that last week, five people in long island were hiding under a tree during a lightning strom and the tree was struck and they all went to the hospital.

okay. talking about lightning. it's basically pouring outside right now, and i heard the first thunder. which brings me back to yesterday. (i will continue with manhattan in a couple paragrapgs.)

basically, yesterday was the worst storm ive ever been in! I COULD SEE LIGHTNING, AND THE THE THUNDER SHOOK OUR HOUSE!

Okay, thunder again. now.

Sharon: GADI, maybe you should close the door?

I'm in the kitchen right now and the rain is touching me. the rain is horrible right now.

[thunder]

it was frightening. i searched on the internet how to protect yourselves from lightning, and i learned that if im outside during a storm and i hear thunder, i should go inside a shelter that has walls, and floor, and roof, and plumbing. and that if i'm in a place without any shelters, i should get in a push-up position.

here's a minor video from the storm yesterday. i don't know if you can hear thunder, or see lightning, but let's just say there was one thunder where i jumped out of my seat, my heart was pacing, a glass in my room fell on the floor and broke, and i was literally scared for my life. kid you NOT.