We're Not Starving to Death

So, what do we eat? This past week, which has been our first at the Conservative Yeshiva, we've not yet starved. We've been able to steadily improve our knowledge of what's in the packages at the grocery store - our intensive Hebrew Ulpan has helped considerably to know words like bread, chocolate, fruit, turkey, etc. so we find ourselves almost fluent in the grocery store!

We've bought and have been eating a lot of great fruit from the store, sliced meat, breads, pita, hummus, etc. and have made ourselves lunches some days for school and on other days, we've gone out for lunch. Most evenings this week we did go out for lunch and our most popular lunch place has been Yo-Si Peking, the Chinese restaurant only minutes from our place (it's going to be awful when we move on August 1!) There are so many great restaurants near the CY and it's just so much fun to hang out there with our fellow students.

For breakfast, our apartment doesn't have a toaster and I love toast so I tried to cook toast in the oven but the results weren't adequate so I often don't have breakfast. I don't eat before the morning service so, for instance, today, I ran over to the store right after services and before class, and bought a chocolate roll and Coke - I'm always eating healthy! Jen's eating the American cereal Crunch Berries (because when we first went to the store, it was the first thing she could identify - that captain isn't hard to miss, even in Hebrew!)

We're going to the store tonight and we expect to have tremendous success since we've already learned an amazing amount of Hebrew in one week of class!