Moving day!

Thursday September 1, 2011

Today we had a pretty chill morning. I got up around 8, organized and packed my things, and woke Brian up for some breakfast. Then we moved our luggage to the common computer room in the lobby. We had time to kill until 2 pm when our shuttle would drive us to the airport to pick up Keren from the airport. Brian and Lior caught up on work. I wrote some emails to kids from new york. Then Lior and I had lunch while Brian watched the luggage, then Lior and Brian switched. I made the mistake of leaving my plate of food unattended... The wonderful wild cats found all over Israel grabbed the meat off my plate. It was a pretty funny sight.

After lunch we rushed to meet Keren at the airport. I made a sign for her on the way, when we were waiting her grandfather happened to approach us and ask if we were waiting for the same Keren. After some time we all found her and continued on our way to our new house. It was nice to add a new face to our group, it's interesting watching tr group dynamic as our group slowly evolves. The house is beautiful! Everything is new for us! There is a girls room foe 3, a girls room for 2, and the 2 boys get to share a room. We have a beautiful kitchen with a new fridge, stove, and this week the oven should be installed. We have two bathrooms, one with a toilet that needs to be fixed and one with a wiling toilet and shower. The shower is great, there are no doors or curtains. When you shower the water flies all over the bathroom, after your shower you take a squeaky and squeaky all of the water down the drain. As all of you can imagine I think it is so fun! :)

We have a great living room, with a big plasma screen tv on the wall. Cable and a (couch?) will be coming this week. For now it is Brian's acoustically perfect performance arena. The sound is really amazing because of the lack of furniture. We have a large backyard, at the moment it is like a red desert, grass will be there in a week or two. We also have a room below the house which might be a study/ workout room. Overall it's amazing. Keren is in the double room and I'm in the triple. We are all a little concerned about the lack of closet space but I keep suggesting we just build more storage.

After we got a little settled Lior suggested we venture to our first food shopping. It was a fun learning experience. We were still learning each others personalities and then set to shoo together. I think we did pretty well, bought nescafe, shoko ba sakit (chocolate milk in a plastic bag, the best!!), and milky of course. We decided to push the shopping cart back with us because there was no way we could successfully carry it all back.

Then Lior left the three of us to get to know each other. It was a nice time to bond. I decided to go for a run and try and find may's house. To my pleasant surprise it is quite easy. It was very cool to meet on a street and walk to her moshav. After a tour of her house and getting to meet her older sister gal, who I heard about all summer. Her mom insisted I stay for dinner, and I'm glad I did! Great food and great company. I was too tired todrove back so may's mom drove me and may back :). It was fun to show off my new house to them! I told may's mom I SO needed to do laundry but without a washing machine it was difficult. She took my laundry to their house. It was really nice of her! Not necessary but SO appreciated!

I took a nice shower and fell fast asleep in my new room, in my house, with my new roommates, I'm sure this year will be great!