"Things I Learned Living in Beer Sheva" by rising second year student Chelsea Powell
At this time last year, I was anxiously preparing to leave for my first year of medical school at MSIH. Here are a few things I wish I knew before I came. - There will be cats! Lots and lots of cats. Cats are everywhere in Beer Sheva. They are in the streets, on the walls, in garbage cans, on campus, and even inside campus buildings! Some cats became familiar to us; one of my favorites learned how to open the motion-sensitive sliding doors of the Faculty Building, and would frequent its halls. Another tried to ride the elevator to the histology computer room with me, and often a feline greeting would lend a warm touch to our late-night histology study sessions. - How fun autotranslate can be Looking for an apartment in Beer Sheva after arriving in Israel forced me to rely on autotranslate to decipher apartment listings. One particularly attractive apartment feature seemed to be “Uncle Sun,” and many listings advertised that the apartment came “w...