Author: tostien

Waiting at the Bank I promise there will be a post about traveling and the kindness of strangers – first some stories. At high school football games we used to cheer something like: “Eat...

Introduction If you have one month to travel to Israel, it should be in October. The weather here is perfect. Sunny. Low in the 60s at night. High in the 80s during the day....

Havilot in America Hey, I’ve been here long enough that I put a Hebrew word in the title of the diary entry. “Havilot” means “packages”. Why does that get its own diary entry? Sigh....

Cat Update A new cat has appeared – Apache. He is about the size of two hands held together in a fist: He attacks yellow hoses among other things – very playful. We don’t...

Previous diary entries: Part 1: Preparation for departure over here.Part 2: First Few DaysPart 3: Moving InPart 4: First Day of SchoolPart 5: Two Weeks In . . .Part 6: Getting ComfortablePart 7: Ready...

Previous diary entries: Part 1: Preparation for departure over here.Part 2: First Few DaysPart 3: Moving InPart 4: First Day of SchoolPart 5: Two Weeks In . . .Part 6: Getting ComfortablePart 7: Ready...

Part 1: Preparation for departure over here.Part 2: First Few DaysPart 3: Moving InPart 4: First Day of SchoolPart 5: Two Weeks In . . . Part 6: Getting Comfortable Shabbos Goy Going to...

Here are the previous diary entries: Part 1: Preparation for departure over here.Part 2: First Few DaysPart 3: Moving InPart 4: First Day of SchoolPart 5: Two Weeks In . . . Cat Update...

Here are the previous diary entries: Part 1: Preparation for departure over here.Part 2: First Few DaysPart 3: Moving InPart 4: First Day of School Updates First some updates from the last blog article:...

Things I Wish I Knew A lot has been going on since my last diary entry. One of my main purposes is to share with people information about “what it is really like” and...