The past few weeks have been relatively uneventful. The last week of November was midterm week here at Hebrew U (which is strange because at the same time, everyone in the USA was studying for finals) so between my three in-school exams and my two take-home essays, I didn’t have much time to get out and do anything exciting. In the end, midterms ( Read more... )

Okay, so I’ve been on a bit of a blogging-hiatus. If I could remember every day of the past month (and then some), I would write about them all, but thanks to memory-loss and sheer laziness, you’ll have to settle for just a few of the more eventful ones ( Read more... )

The night of Monday, October 3 was the start of Rosh Hashana: the Jewish New Year and my first holiday in Israel. Elky, my HSI madrich, invited me to his house for dinner and let me bring my roommate, Jen. We started by going to synagogue - there is a conservative congregation called Ramat Tzion on French Hill (right next to where I live) so I ( Read more... )

Yes, I know it has been quite a while ( Read more... )

The past week started with yet another true Israeli Shabbat. After a beautiful service at Shira Chadasha, my roommates and I came back to our dorm and made ourselves a Shabbat dinner complete with rice, pasta, vegetables, and of course, schnitzel. Maybe we weren’t at some house with an Israeli family we had never met, but we were still able to ( Read more... )

To write about the entire past month of my life would take way too much time and space, but I had better start somewhere, so I guess a quick summary is in order.

Tuesday, August 2. I arrived in Israel after a long, boring, 10-hour plane ride. We finally got to the Idleson Dorms on Mount Scopus, my home for the next year, and the rest of the day ( Read more... )

address for regular letters:

Lisa Chalik
Idleson Dorm 41 Room 6
Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 97665
Israel

address for packages (if you're going to send one, let me know so that I know to pick it up):

Lisa Chalik
Rothberg International School
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Boyar Building, Mount Scopus
Jerusalem 91905
Israel

972.52.840.0558