A couple weeks before I arrived in Israel someone joked about how my life was about to become a real world Israel edition. Little did I know, they were right.
I do live with seven people. They were all strangers. And we are all different.
So I figured, before I go more into explaining my life here, i'll give a little introduction about the 7 people in this house, ad the other 4 on my program.
I'll start with Lindsay. A 23 year old graduate from Penn State. Another big ten school, no wonder we're roommates! She grew up in Connecticut, and spent the year after college being a nanny. In may she traveled to Thailand to take a month long teaching english as a 2nd language class, and spent another month there traveling around! Thailand lead her to Israel where she spent 5 weeks before returning back to Connecticut to sort things out for Ramla.
Lindsay and I live down the hall way, and share a bathroom with Dan and Ron.
Dan is a 28 year old from Chicago, who has spent the past years working in the entertainment
business, and has actually never been to Israel. He is the one and only first-timer on our trip, so we have all planned tons of tourist things to do for him, that Oranim will not be planning. We are already trying to plan a Masada and dead sea adventure!
Then there is a Ron, a 21 year old dutch man. The only non american in our group. We spend our time teaching him american words with fake meanings. For halloween I even convinced him to get into my Marlins shirt and jersey, to be an "american".
Erica, Jackie and Taylor share a room, finishing up our house of 3.
Erica, another 23 year old, is from Lansdale, Pa, and spent the past year working in a therapeutic wilderness school for emotional disturbed teenagers. I'm currently working on her reading the EasyWay to stop smoking book, and it seems to be working!
Jackie graduated from Cornell where she played Soccer! She spent the last year doing financial research, and jumped at the opportunity when she was giving a chance to leave! She spent two months the summer after graduating, 2008, living on a Kibbutz working in the laundry room and almond field.
Taylors the youngest of the group. A 20 year old from California, she spent the last couple of months also working in a Kibbutz, right by Ramla! It's great because she knows the area, and knows israeli friends! I'm also desperately trying to get her to read the EasyWay book, so hopefully one by one i'll stop the world from smoking!
In the apartment down the block lives Hila, Allisabeth and Nicole.
Hila is also a Cornell alum, but her and Jackie had never met. She is the only other girl in the program who joins me at the advanced ulpan.
Alisabeth is just as amazing as her name sounds! Her parents made up the name, and describes perfectly how wonderful and unique she is! She's from Boston but recently moved to New york, and fell in love with Israel after recently going on Birthright.
Nicole, another new yorker, is a 26 year old. She spent the past 4 years working as an auditor and once she went on birthright she knew she had to come back!
Everyone gets along great and things couldn't be going better! Even my rambling has cut down because I seem to always be busy! But I promise i'll ramble more soon! But now it's time for ulpan!
And don't forget, Oranim puts up pictures of us through flickr.
These are from the first day, but i'm sure if you move around the site you can find more!
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