From Israel

Hello once again to all my fans and supporters.  I'm sitting in my apartment watching ESPN.  For most people that is an everyday thing but If I was to tell you that Im in Holon, Israel it throws an interesting twist on it.  I feel fortunate to watch a good episode of ESPN when I'm back home in Jersey, so right now I'm on cloud 9 watching the highlights to all the football games, especially my Jets.

 I have been here for a litttle over a week and I have already fell in love with the country.  The weather is perfect, its actually a little too hot but at this time of the year when its suppose to be getting chilly I will take it warrmer any day. (pause).  The food is also amazing, I have a favorite restaurant already.  Its called SOHO.  Its a Japenese Sushi Bar, but they serve everything from wings, steaks, and ofcourse sushi.  What I normally like to get is for starters the sushi with cooked salmon on the top with veggies in the middle.  It has a name for it but Im such a regular already they just know what it is I want.  For the main course they have a medallion steak with mash potatoes and veggies.  The potatoes has  onions in them and gives it a great taste.  I like to have a couple of ginger ale with that and that completes the order.  Maybe some wings to take home for a late night snack.  Ordering food is easy because everyone speaks ennglish.

My team...  We have had two pre season games so far but my time has been limited because I am new and still trying to get adjusted.  We have a good team thou.  We have great foriegners and really good Israeli players.  We have our first game tomorrow against a team that offered me earlier in the summer Maccabi Haifa, so that will be an intense game.  It being the first game of the year is going to make the game even that more intense.  We are ready for the game and will fight to win infront of the BEST FANS in Israel.

The first thing you learn about the city that I play in is that we have the best fans here in the country and maybe in the world!!  I had no idea that Israel was such a beautiful place.  Holon where I play is 10 minutes from Tel Aviv.  If you havent heard about Tel Aviv you should do the research on it.  I would compare it to South Beach mixed with Los Angeles.  But the great thing is that it still has it ancient and historic feeling that makes it Israel.  I also forgot to mention that I'm 10 minutes from the beach.  In america we see so much negativity on television that I had a wrong opinion about this country.  For me my number one option would be to play in the NBA.(ofcourse)  But I wouldnt mind playing here for a long time.  Next time I check in I will talk about the games we played and some other experiences here.

Thanks and will be back soon.