First day of work!

I am definitely taking advantage of our amazing internet connection here.  In Lotan, the wifi was scarce, but here we have our own personal wifi network that works reliably 24/7 (jealous, kibbutzniks?).  Anyway, today we all had our first day of work!  I got up and had breakfast, and then left for work.  It is literally just down the street from us; I walked there in less than three minutes.  When I got there it was a little awkward because the only English speaker was not there yet, so no one knew why I was there or who I was.  Eventually, however, it worked out and I was sent to help watch around 27 three year olds.  They played and fought and cried and laughed and fell and climbed on things and dug up sand for hours, and I got to be there watching and playing!  It was interesting because of the language barrier: I would hold up something, like a blue ball, and ask, 'mah zeh?'  They would answer, 'cadu cachol,' and I would learn the color blue is cachol.  Then we would count the blocks, and I would help them learn their numbers.  Later, I helped feed them snacks and put them to bed for their naps.  We cleaned the entire play area and, when they woke up, cleaned the nap area, too.  The ladies who work there are so nice, even though we couldn't speak to each other they made me coffee and food, it was all so comfortable there!  At four I walked home and helped clean the apartment for our weekly meeting with the local Reform rabbi, which was very interesting.  We've been hanging out, eating, going for walks, and even more eating since then, but now it's time for sleep because I have another 8:30am shift tomorrow.  Lailah tov!