Move-In Time!

Sunday was…insane. But wonderfully so. Yael went with the three of us who did Eric’s program and are also doing hers to Hebrew University (HU) in a taxi. We got up to registration. Shaun had a nightmare getting things taken care of…yay for bureaucracy. Other folks from MSU were coming in, so Yael was hanging around getting us all taken care of. And then we realized that the office had not placed us all in the same suites. The “dorms” here are all apartments with five to a suite. The folks from MSU are supposed to all be in the same place. We weren’t at all. So Yael had a bit of a nightmare figuring that out and trying to move us. We didn’t get exactly what we wanted, but I’m rooming with someone I had in a previous Madison class (Ashley), Lauren (who was with me on Eric’s trip), and a very sweet girl we met during registration (Megan). Our fifth roommate is from Russia and doesn’t speak fluent English or Hebrew. But she knows enough of Hebrew for us to communicate the basics. She hasn’t been around all that much.
The apartment is amazing. My room overlooks the Old City – I see the Dome of the Rock (the golden dome in the picture at the top of the blog) from my window. We have a kitchen with a stovetop (though no microwave or oven) and a full-size fridge and freezer. The rooms are large.
The previous tenants left a mess, unfortunately. But it provided a wonderful opportunity for roommate bonding. We scrubbed the floors and the shower, Lauren and Megan went shopping. Once everything was scrubbed to within an inch of its life, we heated up the leftovers from the Lebanese on Saturday night, cut up some fruit, and had quite the feast. It was a ton of fun.