drinking in the circle around the hookah
there are 11 girls and 35 guys....almost all my pictures look like this.
some of the ulpanists chillin in haifa
The Trojan Dinosour!! (you can't really tell, but thats what it says)
they have painted cows in boston... in Haifa they have dinosours!!
My room. My bed is the one on the right...its really not as depressing as it looks. butttttt, if you send me pretty pictures i can hang them up to make it a happier room!
other view of my room.
Avi and Anat...family of the Cohens. They are amazing and took me around Haifa the first day I was here
Haifa from above the Bahai temple
Again...
view of Bahai Gardens from above
Hof ha-Carmel...the beach in Haifa.
me as I arrived in Jerusalem...way too many hours on a plane.
I have my computer back!!! Ok, so a quick sketch of my life...I am living dorm style, like freshman year, with three of us to a room. It's actually not as bad as you would think. I spend most of my time in the Moadon (I have no idea how to spell that), its basically the club house for the Ulpanists. The Kibbutz is pretty large, and we (the people on the Ulpan program...easily identified as the ones who don't speak hebrew) have our own area with all our rooms, an outside common area and the moadon. The moadon is where we eat and hangout when it's too hot to be outside. Luckily, this is a wealthy kibbutz (they have 80 cars!!...and over 800 people) so we all get air conditioning in our rooms.
I spend my days either in classes or working. The classes aren't bad, and so far I have been good about studying the vocab and stuff, so I still have my head above water. Anyone who has ever lived with me will find this funny...my job on the kibbutz is to clean...and I kinda like it :) I work in the Chaderochel, which means dining room. Everyone on the Kibbutz eats together there, although I think the families also have small kitchens in their apartments. Its not a bad job. I wash tables and serve food and clean bathrooms and sweep floors. actually, it would be pretty mind numbing, but I get to work with another ulpanist, Channah, and we really get along. Its also a really good chance to talk to lots of kibbutzniks and practice my hebrew. It sucked to learn that I would not be learning to be a farmer, but at least I dont work in the plastic factory like the guys!
I hope you all enjoy these pictures, and now that I have my computer my posts and pictures will be more frequent. I hope everything is going well in the States...send me updates :)
10 comments:
Thank goodness! I miss you already, m'dear.
Keep safe, and please send me a picture of you cleaning. That will be priceless. Honestly. Can you sign it? LoL.
Oh, ps, it's Caitlin.
Sarahlove,
I'm so jealous of your experience. Keep updating, I'm excited to see everything through your lenses..
love you,
b
So glad you are enjoying Haifa my dear! So what do you think, if I get into the Technion should I come to school over there???? And why was your computer at my cousin's lol???
Adam Cavalier Says hello! he misses you, as do I. Those pictures look pretty nice by the way ;-)
Yay, pictures!! Thanks for the update! I'm enjoying reading and I'm so glad you're settling in and things are good so far. So, are there three taps in the sink, one for hot water, one for cold, and one for puffs of deliciousness? :)
(P.S. It's me, Cathy, your cousin)
(because I know a ton of people are probably writing to you about puffs of deliciousness all the time :P )
Cleaning, washing, serving... Is this Kibbutz on Mars? This is other worldly. We love and miss you and Ma nish'ma?
Love
Dad
Hay you,
I am so glad you are enjoying yourself. And now you have a skill you can exploit if when you return you choose not to teach. All kidding aside, I am impressed. Keep the cards and letters coming!
Love Uncle Howard
Hey sis,
So, by the glassy-eyed looks of that second picture, I guess the Manischewitz and Maccabee are flowing freely ;)
keep up the bloggin'.
We miss you over here.
Sababa!
Love,
Dave
(continuing the tradition of extremely creative Kerstein men usernames)
Sarah, Cousin Paul here. Saw your folks this week and your Dad told me about the blog.
Glad to see you blogging. And jealous to see you making aliyah and learning Hebrew in the motherland. But...not so jealous about the cleaning.
Not sure if you know, Randye and I had a son in September last year--Maxwell Asher K. He's quite a handful, similar to most young Kersteins. Ha!
Enjoy yourself and blog often!
And hey, at least my user name is different from the other Kerstein men.
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