December something

Ok, I'm sorry, I really am, that I didn't post last week, but I'm really having a hard time getting it together. My camera is giving me fits, Al's computer is giving me fits, and I'm having a hard time fitting into this new life. Not that there's anything particular strange about it--it's just that everything's different and seems sort of aimless and haphazard, which it isn't really, but it's hard to see any progress--looking into bank accounts, phones, apartments, doctors, shopping at strange grocery stores, getting around (no ramps for wheel chairs, no scooters in grocery stores), crazy traffic, roads that wind around and up and down and I can't tell north from south, can't read the signs, it's too cold, and I don't have time to shop for another jacket or sweater, and I have a headache most of the time.

Nevertheless, it's great being here. It's new, it's interesting, it's beautiful. A stranger spoke to me yesterday, two words, and I happened to know them. He said, "Effo John?" which means "Where's John?" Wow. I've been studying Hebrew quite a bit, and I don't think it's going to be too hard. But I've got so-o-o far to go. I don't even know how to say, "I don't know."