update update update- have u missed me?

hi,

i dont know if u know but when someone posts a comment it gets sent to me as an email, often with no name so i dont know who wrote it.

this afternoon i got one from someone who didnt say who they were, saying how "blogs that arent updated regularly lose their popularity". how funny, i never set out to be popular (although seeing that hit count rise obviously boosts my ego!). this thing is only really for family and friends to see what im up to. everyones welcome but theres no need for criticism.

anyway, i tried to add some pics of yad vashem just now so they would be underneath this but it didnt work for some reason.

to update u, the last week was quite a busy one for me. ive now begun working in a journalist news reporter role for EJP, and coincidently last week saw the largest gathering of world leaders in israel for at least 10 years, most of whom were from europe.

they had all come (if u dont know) for the opening of the new yad vashem museum. so on sunday i missed ulpan to go on a press preview tour of yad vashem and then on tuesday and wednesday i spent my time either in the kind david hotel trying to interview world leaders before and after they held meetings with shimon peres and in the david citadel hotel where a press centre was set up for all the foreign journalists who were not actually going to the ceremonies at yad vahsem (we watched it on a massive big screen, quite surreal).

yad vashem really was excellent. i took loads of pics and will put them up when i can. its not open till next week so maybe i will go with andrew and dad but probably more likely to go when zoe and marc come at the end of may (they just booked their flights, im very excited).

the museum is very cleverly designed, im sure u can all find out about it on the web. search for yad vashem on google.

the other stuff was quite surreal. seeing peres up close is amazing, hes 81 or 82 and acts like a normal politician. one thing was funny after his meeting with the spanish foreign minister a spanish tv station starting interviewing morantinos and then the reporter turned to peres and asked him a question about the gaza disengagement or something and peres just said "i agree with everything my friend here has just said. i understand a little spanish!"

i also met the german foreign minister joshka fischer (dunno if u spell it like that) and the mayor of new york bloomberg and the greek education minister (who is seriosuly crazy - when i asked her what she thought should be done to combat antisemitism in greece she assured me there isnt any and when i asked her the same thing about antisemitism in europe she again said she didnt think there was any!). also i interviewed the lithuanian president over the phone!

it was all quite strange to be honest. i still cant work out what all these people were doing here. they all came for 2 days then left.

i personally dont think it was to show support for yad vashem or even cos they felt guilty about crimes/complicity with the nazis during the holocauyst which some of them apologised for (most notably the dutch and belgian PMs). there was an obvious unsubtle diplomatic undertone in that each leader met with at least one of peres, sharon or foreign minister silvan shalom. but even if they all came here to show support for the disengagement and make sharon know that they expecct him to go through withn it, was it still worth coming. did they all hear everyone else was coming so they wanted to as well? i still dont understand

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thats it for now
love to all
welcome to anyone new - the hackers, oshrat the ethiopian security guard outside the school next to the ulpan (YES i went to ulpan this morning!)

hope to stick some pics up later
jeremy