Kangaroos up north

So this post is really a practice article for an article that Marc and I are planning to send into the Sydney Morning Herald or something. With the photos of course. Basically we would like for an article to be published that tells what life's really like in Israel during this crazy period, so that our families will stop worrying!

Let me just say first off that my life in Jerusalem hasn't changed at all. Not on a practical level anyway. The only place that anything is affected, for me personally, is in the general psyche or mood of myself and the people around me. A few of my friends and a lot of my friends' friends are in the army up in Lebanon. An Aussie Oleh was killed last week. Kids in Nazareth. Hundreds of innocent people in Lebanon. It's all pretty heavy and horrible. For the most part though, from what I can see, Israelis are supporting their country and her efforts to defend herself, but they just want it all to be over really soon.

Anyway so last week we took some shlichim that are heading to Australia shortly to ... Gan Garoo. Yes that means 'Garoo Park'. Funny eh. Thought we'd show them some Aussie flora and fauna. So there we were, 2 hours north of Jerusalem in a so-called 'war-zone'.... patting Kangaroos! Looking at the Kangaroo gift-shop, looking at Lorakeets, Gallahs, Cockatoos... and the whole time all Marc & I could talk about was how good our article for the SMH was going to be.















Marc & Me in the gift shop















Marc & Me with the Kangaroos!


So I guess it's time to write that article... coz this clearly isn't gonna cut it...

All photos courtesy of Marc Dunn Enterprises. Sincere thanks from the editor.