Geting used to being here

So I have now been in Israel for something like 25 days and am settling in okay, I am still not really used to the heat or the sunshine and could really really do with some rain, which is sad because its just not going to rain here until the autumn. The summer Ulpan has started and I think that it is going well, (please read my other blog for details). I am not yet sure what i make of Israel in general or Jlem in particular (but this is certainly an intense kind of place). One funny thing that happed, well it wasn't that funny at the time, was when i went to the post office to post my letter.
I have no bag just my letter, in fact i had left my water bottle at home so I was rather hot and thirsty by the time I got to the post office. As I go in the man on the door ask me something in very rapid Hebrew, i understood that it was a question but that was about it. So i did what any English man would do smile sweety and said yes. This turned out to be a very bad idea indeed.

What I had been asked was 'do you have a gun?' so my saying yes coursed some alarm and dispondancy, any way I put my hands in the air and said, rather plantively 'I only wanted to post my letter!'
Oh he says your English 'do you have a gun' this time asking in English. "No of course not why would i have a gun?" He found it all very funny. Cant say i did. But it makes a good story.