Day 2
June 29th, 2006
This will be the last post where I number the day. I see this as being a plus and by the time I reach “Day 321″ I believe I will officially have become a person who is no longer a creative individual. So I am heading that one off right now! No more posts with “Day + #” in the Title. This of course leaves open for other titles including the word Day… i.e. “the Day the world was folded in two” or “Day of the rabbits” and “Day-O-matic” or any other such Day-incorporating titles.
At any rate, day 2 here in Israel I connected with a couple of people whom I haven’t seen in about a year. It was great! As a matter of fact, while I was registering, I heard a voice coming from behind me. The voice belonged to a beautiful young woman and even more so, the voice was saying my name! Needless to say I was taken-aback for I didn’t expect any to know who I was in this new setting. I turned around to find the lovely Lindsay Kevan (whom I had known from last summer’s Biblical Ulpan with Dr. Buth) approaching me with open arms. It was great to see a familiar face amidst the hustle and bustle of class registration at a new university in a foreign country. We quickly exchanged pleasantries where I found out she would be around for the second part of the modern Hebrew Ulpan, “Great!”, I thought to myself as she hooked me up with her contact information. Even more so then this, Lindsay later enable another friend of mine from the Ulpan last summer to get a hold of me. His name is Geoff, and he rushed over to my newly organized dorm room and took me to a local Grocery store (which was much needed) where I could begin to start stocking up my fridge and thus allowing me to begin living in my new home. Also, just before I left for Israel, two great friends from the first Biblical Hebrew Ulpan contacted me, who I am looking to get a hold of soon and see their beautiful new baby!
I am really excited for this coming Sunday (day 5) when I begin the modern Hebrew class. Ok… now this is an FYI, here in Israel the week begins on a Sunday (just like in the States) however, here they actually begin to work on the first day of the week (unlike many jobs/schools/etc. in the States) Another thing I am getting excited about is having Internet in our dorm suit. Unlike the brochure, the Internet here in the dorms is not as “available” as they lead to you believe. So I have been turned on to a method to acquire Internet access from a local cable provider. This will cost me somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 shekels a month for the service and about 250 shekels for the equipment. This my seem like a lot of money and truth be told it isn’t cheep, however I plan on being able to get it all back from people around me splitting up the cost. This is great news for anyone who is interested in my ability to create new post on this “Frunderful” blog! As it is, this Sunday after my first class (Oh Joy! – said non-sarcastically) I am going to go down to “Besek” (the cable provider) and get “wired”!
note: I know some of you are waiting for pictures, and they are coming, I have taken some but not enough to make a photo album worth looking at yet. So just hang in there, they are coming 
June 30th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Jonah,
Not sure if you will get my other note to you, but nonetheless, just wanted you to know that I am glad to hear that you made it and that you are safe and having a great time. Keep up the magic with the ladies.
Jay