As for other updates:
WORK WORK WORK: Ben got a job!! Today was his second day as a motorcycle mechanic again! He works long days from 7:30am until 6:00pm and comes home in his favorite condition, with dirt under his nails and grease on his clothes. He's a working man all the way through! His co-workers are very nice and so is his boss (Shlomi). Shlomi speaks English and so do the other employees, unfortunately they want to practice their English while Ben wants to practice his Hebrew, but I'm sure he will start learning quicker now that he is around the language more often than we have been so far. Ben never ceases to amaze me with the way he just steps into all the places he might want to work and asks for a job...it always seems to pay off for him. Good job Ben!
HEALTH CARE: The night before we left for France my throat randomly started hurting. It has been hurting off and on since then and I finally decided it has been long enough and it hurts bad enough that I should see a doctor. The doctors office is only about three blocks from our apartment so at 7:52 this morning I headed out the door hoping to get their before a rush of people...I was late. How I was late when it was supposed to open at 8:00 and I got there at 7:58 I do not know! That was just the beginning though. I got in to the see the first doctor pretty quickly but I left her just as fast. She took about a 4 second look in my mouth and 2 in each ear and said there was nothing there!Hmm...I wonder how she knows that without looking past the back of my tongue. So....I was sent back downstairs to reception to pay for a throat culture and an even bigger line of people had formed. I stood there for a while trying to figure out where I was supposed to go. Everything is done there by picking a number, but I was at a loss as to which button to press to GET a number. Finally I got one but when it was my turn to get help I approached the desk and the woman didn't even look up from what she was doing....guess what she was doing....texting on her cell phone!!! She totally ignored me and then finally told me to go to another desk, where I waiting another 5 minutes and was then sent to yet ANOTHER desk. Finally I paid and was sent back upstairs to get the throat culture. However, (yes it continues) the number that the woman gave me was wrong and I waited while person after person who came after me got called in to see the nurse. Finally, I went back downstairs and asked for help. She spoke with the nurse and I got in to see her. BUT...she said I needed another copy of the receipt so I went back downstairs to get it and was sent back upstairs after hearing that 'no, the nurse is wrong, she does not need the other copy.' So...I finally got in...the nurse stuck the long cue tip into my mouth, knocked it around a bit (once again at the back of my tongue, not even where it hurts!) and told me the results would be ready on Thursday. Well...if that didn't turn me off to going to the doctor...wait, what I am saying...it did. If that wasn't confusing for you, I'd worry.
HOTTER THAN HOT: Ok so I wasn't here for the really hot weather that they get in Eilat, but I'm pretty much melting here. It's getting on towards the end of October and we're still having heat above 100 degrees every day! It's 8:45pm right now and still almost 90 degrees out!
ULPAN: To my surprise and pleasure we actually get to start Ulpan this coming Wednesday! We also met another girl who is in my same situation (non-Jew, dating Israeli, getting work visa, taking Ulpan) and she is going to be in our Ulpan as well. She is from Germany but she and her boyfriend speak English together so we can all communicate easily. We went to the beach with them the other day, it was pretty fun...it is interesting to hear how different the US, Germany, and Israel are. Maybe soon we can all speak Hebrew together:)
NOTE TO FAMILY & FRIENDS: If you are lucky enough to see my Maybe...please give her a kiss for me. I miss you all very much.
Thanks for the video - it was the first time I could really see the patio outside your door...even though it is too hot for much of the day, it must give you a sense of some elbow room. Hot in October huh? Sounds good to me! Any golf courses nearby? - just kidding, I can't take those above 90 degrees anyway. Thanks for the pictures by the way, those of you in the Dead Sea were great!
ReplyDeleteI will inhale her lovely doggy smell for you!!
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