‘Strange how life goes on elsewhere’
Waking up in a hotel room in Toronto was very different from waking up back home. For one thing, no sirens. Walking around outside occasionally hearing fire trucks in the distance, the sounds are similar but nobody runs for cover. I’ve been here a few days now and the only time I’ve heard anything about Israel was in a 30-second blip on the news following one about the heat. “The Heat” is 28c, which is pretty much standard in Israel but apparently warrants a warning in Canada.
It’s a strange sensation, how life goes on unaffected elsewhere, I think I really got used to the state of affairs in the last two weeks. Going to see fireworks made me think about it again, is this shell shock or am I being... dramatic?
What’s really interesting here are people my age. Cultural differences work against my humour, but more importantly the people I’ve met have little to no idea of what’s going on.
Nasrallah went on TV saying “when did you see two million Israeli’s going down to bunkers for 18 days?”
First off, it’s one million, secondly, I bet you didn’t see it coming did you? ...That’s right a million of us dutifully live with sirens and bunkers for almost three weeks to let the IDF get it’s job done.
Posted this weekend at israelibunker.blogspot.com
