Some funny things that I have forgotten to mention...

...that have happened in the past couple of days.

But, before that, a sum-up of the rest of today--Eli came over for Mifgash Dira and we had a good talk.  He told us about some people in our section he doesn't like and then said "I don't blame you guys for not having relationships like the other section did.  The girls here are not so good."  It was hilarious to hear him say this, it just seems way out of line.  Regardless, I find myself liking him more and more.  Then Jake and I went for a run through the desert, which was pretty cool, as we jogged up and down rocky, sand-covered hills a mere 2 minutes from our apartment.  We then all went to Kfar Nokdim, a Bedouin tent nearby (Bedouins are nomadic Arabs who traveled in the Middle East region, but there aren't actually nomadic ones anymore).  We got very sweet tea and music and a delicious dinner to commemorate the start of the section.  And now, funny things:

Our apartment is huge and we are excited about it.  It's not really a "year course" apartment, that is to say, I would live in an apartment like this if I were a normal person in Israel.  It is on the 7th floor, so we have an elevator.  This elevator is one of many in a fine fleet called "Schindler's Lifts."  I doubt they meant to do this.

When we were first moving into the apartment, for our first dinner we made 150 hot wings.  Afterwards, we got naked so we could enjoy all the space and being cleaning up a little bit. As we were naked, Simon and Ben leaned out the window of their room and yelled, then noticed that little children playing in a park under the window were staring up at them.  I was moving the windows in the living room aside and then noticed that many of those same children were staring up at me.  Several minutes later, as we were freaking out about having been seen naked through the window, a woman knocked on our door.  Scott went to answer it and said "Just a sec, I'm putting clothes on," and she simply said "I know."  She then proceeded to ask him for us not to be naked around the windows.

That is all for now.  Take it easy!