a new home

yesterday I moved out of the dorm-hostel and into a fully-furnished apartment house with another grad student. this living arrangement is more appropriate, and actually cheaper than the overpriced cockroach-infested dorms. one cool thing about the new pad is that it is really old and so there is all kinds of retro furniture and decor. so we're totally stylin! the whole arrangement worked out really well, thus it was meant to be. there are several small markets within "walking" distance as well.

Last night I had an arabic/hebrew tutor session with the hookah guy (mohammed) from downstairs in my old dorm, and hung out with my new (american-israeli) roommate and another fellow grad student from Canada. I am acclamating quite nicely here. Classes start Sunday. Today we are going to Jerusalem, in a car with another couple of students from our program. It is the last weekend of Ramadan so it should be pretty crazy over there!