Today is our first Shabbat in Tel Aviv. It is also our first weekend off in Israel (no programming). It was rainy and cold yesterday, so my roommates and I (Rose and Leora) just went to the grocery store and made shabbat dinner for ourselves and 7 friends from the program. Because of the lack of a real kitchen (only one hotplate) and utensils, we have to make do. For instance, we all drank soup out of styrofoam cups! Today is probably just going to be a lazy day. I have a cold (considering half the people in my program are sick, it's no surprise), so it will be nice to just hunker down. Ulpan starts up againt tomorrow. It is going to take a while to come to terms with the fact that Sunday is just a normal workday here!
On Thursday we met with Ethiopian Israeli students and then heard a lecture from an Israeli General who led Operation Moses, which is the operation that snuck 400 Ethiopian Jewish kids out of Ethiopia and brought them to Israel in 1984. He was a very animated speaker and it was a fascinating story. Many of us were in tears at the end. Thursday night most of us hung out on a rooftop terrace near the beach.
There is something called a "dude" here. It is the device that turns on the hot water heater. You need to turn it on like an hour before you want to take a shower and then turn it off right after. If you leave it on, they warned us that it could blow up and cause floods or fires! The hot water lasts about 3 minutes, and then turns cold--not even lukewarm, but cold. It is not fun.
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Whoa... cold showers demotes your country to third world, dude. Is there a "sweet" you turn on elsewhere for cold water?
ReplyDeleteAt least you get warm/hot water....even if it's only for 3 minutes. Hot water is an expensive luxury in Kenya. So my normal routine is either ICE COLD shower, or warm water on a propane stove to take a "bath" in a tub that my ass wouldn't even fit in...HAHA it's more like a "cup bath".....because you can't actually get IN the water, lol.
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