Good things are happening!! I met these 2 really sweet girls, they are twins, Rachel and Sarah-- one goes to cornell and the other goes to Tufts-- they are sooo sweet, I actually remember them from USY. They were in NERUSY, the boston chapter, and I remember them from international convention in Boston a few years ago. Anyway we met over the weekend at I club and we got to talking. I told them how much I HATEDD my living situation and they were like well we MIGHT have 1 room open, no ones been there and we dont know if an Israeli lived there but we should find out because you can definitly have it!! Soo I got sooo excited, but never thought it would happen! Yesterday after Ulpan they came up to me and were like lets go find out. So we went to the housing department upstairs, they made some calls and the room was FREEEEEE so I was able to make the switch!! i could not be any happier!! They are so sweet, they also live with their friend Rosie who goes to cornell & 1 Israeli. So I went back to my room, broke the news to my roomate, and quickly packed up my entireee room and went to building 3! I was soooo happy. In every apartment theres a bomb shelter room, it has a special sealable window and a 2nd door and special plugs, all this special stuff incase theres an emergency and thats the room I live in so you all should know I am veryyy safe!... plus its a little bigger :)The apartment is much cleanier and cozier. The Israeli girl that lives there is a little odd, she doesnt speak much english so we're having a field day with her. She has a ton of stuff form living there for soo long-- toaster, microwave, pots and pans so its really nice. She keeps telling us we have to sit down and have a "talk" but we have no idea about what, idk if she even knows what shes saying. She was making some sort of meat soup yesterday I thought i was going to vommmm--- but the 4 of us just laugh. The twins are identical so Im having issues telling them apart-- for those of you who dont know, it took me a year to decipher between Kim and Lisa gurock in my pledge class, it aint looking too good so far. They are really really sweet- their friends with the cool Shomer girls so we all hang out, its nice.
We went on a tour of Jerusalem last night run by the school. They were supposed to show us all the "hotspots" to visit but they actaully showed us the weirdest places ever-- parliament, all these museums, all these bars we've already gone to. it was soooo cold-- no one paid attention. My roomies and Sam and all the really Jewish girls went so we all bonded. Me and this girl lauren verstandig, from maryland, bonded over having boyfriends at home- we're new best friends. That whole group of girls is great, they are really jewish, all went to jewish day chool and live on the shomer girl but are actually really normal and cool. They are all in sororities (good sororiteis) and I really like them! We all signed up for shabbat dinenr this weekend at a hotel so I am excited! It will be fun... Sam is going to tel aviv for the weekend so itll give me a chance to meet more people for us when she gets back!
Ulpan is interesting. Im in one of the lower levels- alaph 3-- theres still 2 easier levels below me. but its like too easy. Me and this girl, Danielle Schlindler from UCONN (shes in aephi-- we're new best friends :)) Sit there and we're soo boreddd, its like all stuff we already learned (from danielle cohens hebrew 101 class). We have 2 teachers in the clasroom- they switch halfway through and they both asked us if we want to move up a level but we're scared to, we dont want it to be tooooo hard. So its from 830 am to 115 sunday-thrusday which is a long time, but they do do a really good job making it interesting. We do a lot of singing, conversations, theres props, etc... its literally ALLLL in hebrew- the teachers like dont speak english so we're really learning. We have tests everyday but their easyyyy soo far. The Koreans are sort of catching on- its just very hard for them. Theres this boy in my class names Tilo. Coulda sworn hes like 20. Hes 37 and from Germany. he works for the german government and claims he needs to learn hebrew (hes only here for Ulpan)-- its very strange, a german learning hebrew, we all stay awayyy!! hes a very questionable.
More weird things:
-So apparently the Israelis in the dorms pay for heat, water, and electric like out of pocket. EVry month they get a bill for it. But since a lot of us live with Israelis, a set portion of our tuition money goes to pay this bill every month, no one knows how much, we but know its a small amount. So since the Israelis pay out of pocket every month they like dont put on the heat- thats why its sooo colddd everywhere. At night when we go to sleep, the israeli turns off the heat so we freezeee!!!
-I cant remeber if I mentioned the shower buttons in the last message but theres a hot water button you have to turn on before you shower (like an hour before, so its a big problem in the mroning) plus theres also this towel warmer button. Israelis believe you should have a hot towel when you get out of the shower so in the shower room (room with only a shower, theres 2 rooms with only a toilet too) has this giant heater that warms your towel when you get out, its kinda nice. We should look into this for UP.
-The absurd amount of cats. Cats in Israel are like squirrels and rabbits in America--- THEY ARE EVERYWHEREEE and its disgustinggggg. They are all over the streets- sometimes walking the first floor of buildings because they leave the doors open. Its disgustinggggggg... The weird kids in the program always sit there and play with them, like they have diseasesss
-They dont have ice coffee here, or coffee makers or anything like that. Coffee is instant coffee here and ice coffee is this coffeee smoothie, they dont understand any other version of it. Coffee with ice in it, forget about itttt
-freeezinggggg hereeee o
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