Akko!

We've finally moved into our house in Akko! It's pretty small (it's meant for one family), but somehow we managed to fit 18 of us in this one house. 

This is what the house looks like when you first walk in. Through the door to the left you have the kitchen, 2 bathrooms, and one bedroom. To the right you have the entryway to the living room (which we call our moadon), and through the living room you can get to another bathroom and 2 more bedrooms.

This is our kitchen! We finally have a real stove, and a nice, fully functioning refrigerator. We also have a pantry full of dozens of spices, pasta, different spreads, and an array of fruits/vegetables!

Here's our living room/moadon! This is where we do most of our asephot/peulot.

This is my bedroom! I share a room with 4 other people. Sam from Miriam, Jess from Galil, Jacob from Miriam, and Chief from Gesher. I have top bunk, and it's very cramped in our room, but it's got a warm, homey type of charm to it that I like.

If you walk up these stairs, you'll get to the 2nd floor, with 2 more bedrooms and 1 more bathroom. 

This is the central part of upstairs. Here is where we keep the dryer to dry our clothes (the washing machine is downstairs, don't ask why, because I really don't know why they're separated).

Through this window you can see our balcony! And the beautiful sunsets!

The best part of the house is definitely our wrap-around balcony! As you can see, everyone else is very excited about it too! We get the best views of the sunset, and we live right next to the train tracks that separate us from the main city of Akko. So we live super close to everything, which is awesome! 

What's nice about living in Akko is that we can walk to just about everything we need in the city. It's a lot warmer here than it was in Ein Dor, which makes walking a lot more pleasant. A few days ago we split up into groups and did a short scavenger hunt. We saw the shuk that so many people have told us about. It's full of so many fruits and vegetables! There's also a super cheap grocery store nearby that's cheaper than the kolbo that was on kibbutz. 

Today we went out for lunch as a kvutza. We went to this hummus and pita place and all sat down on a super long table. They kept on giving us so many different kinds of hummus like hummus with chick peas, hummus with beans, hummus with tahini, and regular hummus. It was so good, and we all left feeling super satisfied. 

After lunch, we still had 2 hours to kill before our next peula began. 7 out of the 9 of us girls decided to walk to the beach! It was amazing being able to go to the beach in the middle of December! I could even see Haifa across the bay! 

 

Another part of kaveret, and probably the most exciting and important, is messima. Messima is the work we will do in schools with Israeli Jews, Arabs, or both. It was a super long process of deciding the tzvatim and choosing where we want to work (there were 4 options), but after a night and a morning of discussing, we finally figured it out.  

I'm working in Haifa at a school with mostly Jews. In the afternoon, my tzevet, (which is Sara Banai, Ari Egar, Chief, and myself), will be working in the ken at Beit 

HaTzeirim. I still don't know the specifics of the messima, but I'm still super excited. Haifa is my favorite city in Israel, and I can't wait to finally be a madricha.

Soon it'll be chofesh for workshoppers, which means that we have a week or so off from programming.