Blogs from Center District, Israel, Middle East - page 5

OK so this is going to be a short blog, but I wanted to share this story with you. So we get food paid for us at work during the night shift. Depending on how many people are working depends on the food we get. Tonight in particular we had 11 people working which meant to only be able to spend 100NIS we had to come up with a cost effective way. Hence the idea to go to the supermarket and get cold cuts, cheese, salads, and bread. We even threw in some barukahs (potato filled pastries...not periogies but actual pastries). Delicious, right? Well............................................ This is apparently the busiest supermarket EVER in Israel, and it doesn't help that Pesach is almost here and that means that people are cooking for their whole family and their ... read more

Prelude: I just posted 2 entries at once, so read the other one as well...sorry been quite busy and no internet in the room kinda kills it. I'm having a bit of a dilemma. The problem is this. I've only been here a week and I'm already feeling bogged down by what I have to do as far as ulpan and work. It's not necessarily the fact that I can't handle it, but I keep having to take days off to do the basic oleh chadasha (new immigrant) stuff, such as opening up a bank account, going to misrad haklita (Office of Immigrant Absorption) and such things like that. I still have to make my way to Tel Aviv and meet up with the people in Misrad HaStudentim (Office of Student Affairs to get set up ... read more

So turns out....Ika's son is gorgeous. Enough said about that because I'll just sound like a girl. :) We're hanging out later this week. Their house is amazing. It's this Spanish style villa in a moshav (gated community). They have 4 floors to it and it has vaulted ceilings. The backyard has fresh mint, thyme, jasmine, lemon and banana trees. Ika actually gave me some fresh herbs to use in my tea which make tea out of this world! Each one of their sons rooms has a LCD flat monitor screen with a new computer, new stereos and big TV. It's like luxury living in Israel basically compared to most houses I have been in since coming here and it's certainly big time compared to where I am staying! Dinner was delicious...and in classic Jewish mother ... read more

So to start off this blog....I have a promise to make....a promise is that I will update this blog as often as I can and also have pictures when I can as well. Today there are no pictures as I ran out of batteries for my camera. But there will be. Now with that out of the way, let's continue shall we? "Shalom. At oleh chadasha? Shalom Eretz Y'Israel! B'Hatzlacha" Since my Hebrew deficient friends (not like I'm any better myself haha) are reading this, that translates into "Hello! Are you a new immigrant? Welcome to Israel! Good luck!" But let's back up to the actual ride over here itself. Packing everything that you'll need for a new life in a new country is a harrowing enough job as it is. Let me put it to ... read more

Hello everyone! I'm sorry I haven't had a chance to write on here in a while, so now I'm going to write a really long entry to make up for it! haha. Ok, so, when I last left you, I had just spent my first week at Ulpan. The whole time in Ulpan in Netanya was a lot of fun. Kinda like the beginning of college, just because you're living with so many people your age and just hanging out and having fun all the time. Oh yeah, and having 5 hours of hebrew classes a day too. We have a lot of musicians with us, so somebody is always playing guitar, piano or singing. We also went to the beach a lot and went into the city to go to cafes and such. Not such ... read more