Today's accomplishments

Bank - Super easy to set up an account in Israel. They had all the forms, including US tax forms ready to go - in Hebrew and English. There are no bank fees for students and we can pick up our cards in a week

Bookstore - Israel doesn't "do" 8.5 x 11 sheets of paper, so we bought new notebooks etc. Graph paper is big here. Woot.

Interwebs - Signed up and hooked up. YAY! My roomie and I both cried we were so happy.

Air Conditioning - I can't believe we went a day and a half without it. There was some kind of doohickey on the wall but it didn't seem to do anything. When the dorm coordinator came by with the new roommate, she couldn't believe we were living like this. I believe the word she used was "stupid". We hastily got some batteries for the AC remote control and we've had it set at arctic ever since. Tonight I put on a sweater - it was awesome!

We celebrated our productive day with Shawarma!