Sunday, first day of the week

Today was our first busy day of prep work. Chris spilled orange juice in his laptop keyboard, followed by Dan plopping some yogurt on his. Besides lots of meetings, discussions, and individual work, various people in our group had a morning run, did some group yoga, and made some shopping runs. Shopping hasn't been much of an option until today. Big thanks to Tali and Abeer for stocking our apartment so well with food for the interim.

We toured all our class space at Hebrew University today. The cafeteria passed the test at lunch, and the campus is nice. Many stray cats roam the campus just like in town.

Wow, our apartment is definitely in a great location. We are just a 5-minute walk from an abundance of shopping, including a large area of streets closed to car traffic. We found a friendly hardware store for a few more electrical adapters, and the supermarket was well-stocked with fresh fruit and American breakfast cereals. But no Grape-Nuts :(

5-10 minutes beyond the shopping area lies the Jaffa Gate to the Old City and East Jerusalem. I hope to visit tomorrow to pick up some local Mediterrean food: meat pies, stuffed grape leaves if I'm lucky. A constant supply of fresh fruit in the kitchen plus great local food ready to microwave at a moment's notice should keep my tummy very happy this week.

I think we fixed all our major electrical and network issues today. We've got three places to plug in grounded U.S. 3-prongs, and many more 2-prong outlets scattered across the apartment. Laptop power cables string all over the floor, and we now have wireless internet access on all 3 floors :)