It's storming in Israel!

Today, Israel experienced a decent winter storm with wind, thunder, lightening, rain and hail.  This, is a fairly normal occurrence in Israel during the winter butttttttt this was the first decent storm in a while so Israel sort of went nuts.

For example:

• There were at least 10 kids missing from each of my classes today because of the storm;
• Posts were all over Facebook about the death of umbrellas, whether people should go to work and requesting fellow ark builders; and
• News story after news story about how we all needed to prepare for power outages and objects flying through the streets.

In saying that, it did snow in Jerusalem which is only meant to happen every couple of years (and it snowed last year).  So schools and roads were closed in Jerusalem and they mobilised their fleet of 150 snow plows to take to the streets to clear the snow.  But in Rishon, it was just your average mildly serious winter storm.

There were no school or road closures here :( which meant I was at school today but it ended early because there were so few students (#lessstruggle).  It was easy enough to get the bus home but on the 20m walk to my house from the bus stop I got violently hailed on.  It was quite painful tbh.  Tiny pellets of ice coming at me from every angle.  I was legit running down my street holding my umbrella and screaming.  It would have been quite the sight.  And honestly, I'm surprised I made it home in one piece.

The after math of my near death hail experience

Tiny pellets of pain

I followed this up with a visit to my host families house for some much earned beef stew for lunch and a game of Jenga, the perfect rain time activity.

 

Then, after braving the cold to get home again, I baked some winter-inspired chocolate chip cookies, if I don't say so myself.  They were butter-free and had walnuts in them so were very healthy.

MM x