All the new impressiones

This will be a short entry, because right now we are in our posh apartment with seaview in Netanya and are getting beautiful for the wedding this evening.

But yesterday I visited Jerusalem and the first impressions need to be written down. So, please, be kind if I tend to write in bulletpoint-style and the grammar is getting "german"...

We parked our car next to Damaskus gate and at the restaurant were we got our freshly squeezed breakfast juice next to the austrian hospiz the owner knew about the Dom and were their Society center is. Well, apparently everyone in the muslim quater I asked (approximately 7 Persons) knew them. In the jewish quater in the old city I had to add "you know, the gypsy peopla of Jerusalem" to get information about the direction. But my couchsurfing host who lives 10 minuits by car from the old cits has never heard about them.
This gives me the impression that the Dom work and live in a rather small area or at least don't present themself by this name when they are further away.

I got some pretty strange views once I told people about my plan to do a field study among the Dom. When I asked what the matter was, the people just laughed the question away. But in my interpretation the look on their face said something like: "Oh, these foreigners... Don't know what they are up to but have to find out alone..." Well, perhaps it said something completely different and on the other hand, perhaps they don't know what "field study" means, it's not an every day vocabluary, I guess...

From the pictures that I say on the Dom Reaseach Center Homepage and the Dom Society Centers Website and the things I know about the Doms work I probably say some of them on the streets close to Damaskus gate selling herbs and spices. They were sitting on the ground on the middle of the street and when I took out my camera to take a picture of some building a perhaps-Dom-woman next to me hided her face behind a bundle of green leaves even though the camera wasn't pointing at her. Don't know what to conclude from this experience jet but I hope the hiding is not symptomatic for the general way the Dom react on strangers. Then my study could turn out more difficult than I thought...

Although I asked some people I didn't find the Dom Center immediatly and our scedule of sightseeing made it impossible to search for it any longer. So either it is really hidden in some backally or the Dom Community is much more integrated in the city live than the research impressions made me think...

Well, thats it, I guess. Now it's time for my appointment with the make up artist and after that I will attend my first jewish wedding! Mazal tov!