Dear ones,
On Friday, an Israeli folk dance teacher came and taught us dances. We danced in circles with our arms flung over each other's shoulders and jumped up and down and frolicked the night away for over an hour. The instructor, Boaz, invited us all to a Purim party at his dance studio.
Purim started tonight at sundown. It celebrates Esther saving the Jews, and it's essentially Jewish Halloween. Everybody dresses up. We were planning to go out on Ben Yehuda street, where there are lots of shops and bakeries and gelatto places, but there's been freezing cold rain all day. And also apparently people are into drunken revelries on Purim, so we decided to go to Boaz's studio instead.
There we met a lot of middle-aged people who have been taking his class for months and knew all the steps. Everyone was in costume and there was a chocolate fountain.
All in all, excitement and joy!
-Stella
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