Our 1st Week

Well, we made it our first week here. We are hoping things will slow down a bit. We spent this week running around and getting things done, like paper work, shopping for car, registration/uniforms/supplies for kids’ school, etc... Not having a car makes things a bit harder, however the community been amazingly supportive.

We spent some time yesterday visiting the school and meeting some of the kids’ teachers. The school is very organized, and the teachers and principle are very supportive. The kid’s will be starting school on Monday.

Last night three families arranged for us to ride with them to the beach and we all had dinner there with them and their kids. All the kids had a great time. The beach is only few minutes from where we live. With the Shrines, the mountain, beaches and good friends, it helps make the transition easier.

One of the things I miss is having a dishwasher, and I have been trying very hard to figure out if I can fit one into my small kitchen. No luck yet but I am sure with time I will find one that will fit as I am desperate. I never realized how hard it is not to have a dishwasher and how long it takes to wash dishes by hand.

We took so many things for granted while living in the United States. As much as I love having my window open and having fresh air I still wish I had my nice air conditioning with the constant temperature throughout the house. Here we have the AC unit only in the living room so we have to have a path of fans to direct the cold air traffic to our bedroom. And I will not dwell much on the clothes washer and dryer, as we hope to be getting our shipment next week and we will have our washer and dryer.

We actually have a small but strange (to us) washer from Germany. However, the labels are all in German and the manual is in Hebrew. Naim used Google to translate the labels from German to try figure out how to use the washer, and nothing matched up with the familiar cycles of US washers. But he tried it out and after about 2 hours it finished a wash cycle, so today was the first day we were able to wash clothes. Also, last night May was trying to bake some potatoes in the oven but did not have enough time to figure out how to turn the oven on, so that will be a project for this next week. 

Thank you for your comments and the emails. We will try to keep you updated and please send us email to let us know how things are going at your end. We still have our email at daystar9.

Well, it is 1 am at my end, way passed my bed time so I better go get some sleep.