Well, I have been back in Israel now for two weeks. It seems like much longer! My Hebrew class started the day after I got back and has been going in full force since then. Everyday for 4 hours, I sit in a classroom and listen to people speak Hebrew at me. It is incredibly draining but my comprehension is improving and maybe I'll actually be able to carry on a normal conversation one day! :) And then I come home in the evening and, surprise, I do homework!
It is nice being back. Feels almost like home. Without family or a bathtub... so not quite as nice. :) Svenja, who'd been living in the apartment while Chelsea and I were gone, decorated it beautifully and we already had our things moved in, so adjustment was easy.
Thank you all so much for a wonderful vacation! It was a crazy and fun time. After a borderline insane trip home – three flights (all delayed) and 21 hours of layovers – I was hugging my family (albeit, somewhat deliriously). The rest of the time was filled with an Independence Day party, a wedding, dinner at Casa Bonita, house sitting, best friends finally in the same zip code, dancing, Friends in Low Places (for you, Sarah!), wonderful lunches and entertaining dinner parties – there was even a soup kitchen. :)
Now it is back to the grindstone: class, study, tour, class, study, tour. It's a rough life. :)
Here is a picture from outside my apartment.
My apartment is in the first building on the right past the round thing. :)
The security building through which you must past to get into the dorms.
 Gotta love the double-decker tour buses! Showing off the Mount Scopus Campus.
THE corner store. Every student living in the Student Village passes this guy on their way to school and home again. He gets to know the students really well. :)  |
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