Elad’s blog

I was talking with Karen and Itay the other day, and they mentioned that the USA and Canada have something called a “good Samaritan Law”. Basically, it is a law that says that you must be a good citizen - if you see an injured person you must at least call the emergency line and help him. Actually, other countries - mainly in western Europe - also have similar laws.

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Reading one geology book (lately I am interested in Geology a bit, so I bought myself a few books on the subject and I am reading them in my spare time), I found the technical term Abyssal Plain.

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I spent a lot of time in the past few weeks helping my sister in her studies. A few days ago she took the first part of her final exam in history (she will probably make the other part next year), and as I helped her with the studies, I was re-exposed to all the relevant material, and now I can share a gloomy thought with you.

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The title of this post is copied from one of the main squares in Amsterdam. The Latin sign appears far above the square, etched in big bold letters on a stone gate that is left from the past, carrying the ancestral wisdom: a wise man does not piss against the wind.

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This post, describing my second and third days in Amsterdam, is published in quite a delay. I know this - I have been really busy lately, finding a job and everything. I now have a job, but not yet an appartment. I will write about this later. In the meanwhile - you can read a bit more about Amsterdam.

Keukenhof, the biggest flower garden in Europe (they claim, in the world; I am reluctant in such matters), surprised me in the big combination of colours, odors, and styles they created from a relatively small variety of flower species. In fact, the vast majority of flowers there belonged to one of four types: tulips, narcises, and two types which I know only their Hebrew names but not the English one.

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