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Alright folks, all the holidays are behind us, vacations are done and final exams are looming, which means very little time to blog and not many interesting things to blog about, so today I will be writing about adventures in errand running! Kind of the same but different: that describes life in Israel.  Life here looks mostly the same, but it takes some adaptation to accomplish basic tasks.  For example:  in Israel this is a mop: Yes, I know.  It looks like a squeegee.   That’s because it is a squeegee.  (By the by: if, like me, you are confused about how to mop your floor with a squeegee, fear not!  You can google it.) I could fill a month of blog posts with the little things that seem familiar, but are just a little bit foreign.   However, today, I will be focusing specifically on a task essential to daily living.   So without further delay, I present: Tips and Tricks for Israeli Grocery Shopping In order to successfully acq...

This is a picture of me on a camel in Jordan. I include this photo for two reasons. (1) All blog posts should have photos. (2) It was a lifelong dream of mine to ride a camel. One of the best things about MSIH is being able to cross things off your bucket list. I’m so excited to be writing for this blog! I remember reading it last year as I prepared for medical school, wondering what it would be like to live in Israel. While it can be wonderful, adjusting to life in a foreign country is difficult. There’s a new language to learn, a new culture to comprehend, a new..everything. I’m not sure I’ll ever understand why grocery shopping in Beer Sheva is a contact sport, or why the bus schedule is always wrong over the holidays, or why the corner store near my apartment seems to close at a different time every day. Sometimes, living in Israel is endlessly frustrating. Yet other days, I get to be a part of something that exists nowhere else in the world. This past week, Israel celebrated Yom H...

It’s hard to believe that it’s already the beginning of April and that our second semester is drawing to a close.   My classmates and I are returning to school today after a ten day break thanks to Pesach.  We have 2 more weeks of classes, another virology quiz and then a month of final exams.  I spent part of my Pesach vacation catching up on studies (ask me anything about a parasite, I won’t know the answer, but I will shudder involuntarily) and taking care of other pesky chores like taxes and filing my FAFSA for next year.  However I also had the opportunity, along with 3 MSIH friends, to travel to Petra and Wadi Rum in Jordan.   I don’t want to spend my entire stint as MSIH first year blogger forcing strangers to look at my vacation pictures.  However, when considering blog topics, travelling to another country seemed much more interesting than tales of flipping through Microbiology cards and falling asleep on my Pharmacology textbook (in the ...