Day one of ulpan. We woke up at 6:30 and showered. I should add here that our shower is interesting. The shower head is about at chest height. One lifts said shower head in one hand, and uses the other for showering purposes. It is a learned skill.
Anyway, after showering, we walked to Ulpan (Hebrew class) and arrived at 7:57 (it starts at 8). I am in "Gimmel plus" which is level three plus. The teacher is nice, and very much a crazy Israeli lady. There are 10 people in my class. At least 2 of us are Jewish, one woman is an olah chadasha (new immigrant) from Russia, and the rest are Arab. Everyone in the class is really nice and eager to learn Hebrew, which is great. I understand everything which is going on (awesome!) but I still lack speaking skills and dikduk (grammar). I'm going to buy a grammar book tomorrow.
After 4 and a half hours at ulpan, Elyssa and I went grocery shopping...again; this time at Mr. Zol which is a conviently large and familiarly structured supermarket. We then walked to the old city. According to Omer (one of our Israeli friends from last summer), it would be a 10 minute walk. An Israeli 10 minutes...actually, more like 20. We bought some more stuff for our apartment and then decided that we would save money on cab fare and walk all the way back. An Israeli 10 minutes. This time, 25. Exhausted, we drank water and ate pita (welcome to Israel) and put our couch bed on the floor. We now have sugar, flour, water filter, rice, pasta, fruit, olive oil, soy sauce, TOFU, pita, pita, pita, hummus...and other assorted necessities.
After eating, Omer headed back to his large apartment (but they have 11 people) and we stayed home, did our homework, and cleaned the kitchen.
We're exhausted because we walked so much, and we're still getting over jetlag, but all is well. We had a delicious dinner and are looking forward to the weekend (it comes a day early here...it also ends a day early).
I'm looking forward to trying to get some antibiotics for possible pertussis tomorrow. Wish me luck.
Peace, homies.
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Pertussis, huh? Awesome! Sounds like fun! Also, I've been coughing for a week, and now I'm all paranoid. Thanks.
Understanding everything on the first day of Ulpan is pretty amazing, by the way. Good job.
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