היום התחיל בנסיעה מ-Stoughton צפונה. 
פעם ראשונה שנכנסנו לבוסטון ברכב. כמה נופים אורבנים (כמו שאני אוהב): גורדי השחקים, 
(לא, זה לא עשן מהארובות, זה לכלוך על השמשה של האוטו…), גשר Zakim, 
וכשמגיעים לשכונה שלנו - הכנסיה הענקית שעדיין לא ביררתי את שמה. 
ממנה הדרך לדירה שלנו קצרה. 
כן, הדלת לא משהו מבחוץ… גם אף אחד לא תולה פה שלטים חמודים עם שמות הדיירים המאושרים. פרטיות אני מניח. נו, טוב.
זהו, ארזנו כמעט הכל. מחר בבוקר אנחנו יוצאים בשיירה של רכבים מלאים במטלטלינו (גם ג'ודי מצטרפת עם האוטו שלה). יש לנו 4 מזוודות ענק שהבאנו אנחנו בטיסה לפה, תכולה של 4 מזוודות שהביאו המשפחה של אביגיל במהלך החודשים האחרונים, שתי שקיות ענק מ-Linens n' Things, שתי שקיות ענק מאיקאה ושני Trolleys…
אנחנו פוגשים שם את בעלת הבית שלנו (ירינה טורקו בודרוק) כדי לקבל המפתחות, בין 10 ל-2 אמור להגיע המשלוח מאיקאה עם כל הריהוט שלנו (חייבים להרכיב את כולו מחר או מחרתיים כי אם משהו נדפק חייבים לדווח תוך 24 שעות…) ובין 3 ל-5 אמור להגיע הטכנאי של הכבלים לחבר אותנו לאינטרנט! אחרי קניות של אוכל יחסרו לנו רק שולחן סלון, טלויזיה, מערכת סטריאו, לפטופ לאביגיל, טוסטר אובן, מיקרו גל ושואב אבק… אבל משהו שכבר יש לנו (קיבלנו היום בדואר, באדיבות דבי) - AeroBed זוגי! כך שעכשיו אנחנו יכולים לא רק להזמין אתכם אלא באמת גם לארח.
חוץ מזה היום הייתי שוב בראיונות ב-Broad. חמישה במספר. שוב התרשמתי עמוקות מהדברים המעניינים (ואף חשובים) שעושים שם ומהאנשים הגם (כנראה) מוכשרים וגם נחמדים/בראש שלי. שבוע הבא עוד פגישה עם ג'יל, ראש קבוצה אחת, ועם עוד אחד מהקבוצה שלה וביום חמישי נאמר לי שג'יל ואן יגיעו להחלטה משותפת לגבי. כן, אני אתאכזב מאד אם לא אקבל שם הצעה. לא, אני לא אוהב את הסיטואציות האלו בכלל.
Hey, so I thought we should tell you more about the process of finding a place. I see that some of you thought we found a place really quickly but for us time was running out. Like I said, Sep. 1 is a crutial date, because that’s when most of the people want to move in (this is due to all of the students here). So basically, if we hadn't found a place until then, the search would have been much harder and we would have had to look farther away, like in a city called Somerville (right north of Cambridge, my brother is moving there also Sep. 1) or in Brookline (the place of Jews/Israelis) or Newton (another place of Jews). Jees, lots of Jews. Speaking of, many of the apartments we saw had a mezuza or were owned by some Jew/Israeli.
Where was I? OK, so apparantly, most of the apartments for Sep. get rented as early as June and July. We were told that that is the best time to look for an apartment in Cambridge (and if the place we found turns out to be horrific, we will start looking next year already in June). So by August, not much is left and you have to be lucky (like in everything else..). Most of the Realtors actually showed us the SAME places.. (I read about that phenomenon somehwere online) (most places were clean and cool but better for 1 person, not 2). I was running around from Realtor to Realtor, eating each day at the same place (Au Bon Pain) and not really looking to see what’s around me. Hopefully now we can start being tourists! And I must say it’s gonna be weird living in a place where so many tourists come to visit. Like on your way to work seeing a group of tourists taking pictures of some church we ourselves probably won't even visit..
Anyway, now we need to get the apartment measured and buy stuff (at… Ikea?). We'll be sure to get extra matresses or a sofa bed, because we know you just can't wait to visit us
PS: I have no spell check on this computer, so excuse me for any mistakes.. Aviad is working on the laptop with the Hebrew.
PPS: Some of you wrote me emails and I didn't get a chance to respond yet, but believe me, I am thinking of you and am happy the English is not a machsom….
PPPS: To some of you we're responding in the tguvot of the former posts - I hope you don't miss that.
PPPPS: I just wanted to see what 4 Ps would look like..
OK, I gotta say it’s really weird that we're here. In the States. In Stoughton. In Judy’s house. I mean, this is where I spent each summer during my entire childhood, and now, not only is my love seeing my "childhood landscape", he’s also living it with me… Just the room alone that we're staying in has so many memories, I don't know how to explain it. It’s different from my room in my parents' house. Maybe because no one else was exposed to this place. Weird. It’s like I have a whole different set of memories that I'de forgotten about.
Back to real life. Today we started our lives here: we opened a bank account. Aviad would probably elaborate on the monetary system, but at least in terms of customer service, you're a king here. Actually not, but here they know how to make you believe you're one. We still had to wait ten minutes for a banker, but this was after a person took our name and told us to sit at comfortable couches where we could enjoy free lolypops..
It took over an hour to open the account but now we're finally good to go (=become American consumers 'lemofet').
What else can I tell you? Maybe I should go back to tell you about the flight. It was terribly long this time. We had a delay in Zurich because there was a "major leak in the breaks system" (poor Aviad - he’s a flight-o-phob as it is), but even after we finally got on the plane, the flight did not want to end. Aviad was so happy a slept a good long nap only to find out that a half an hour went by… I had less of a problem because I slept the whole way from Tel Aviv to Zurich, which was basically still night time. I can fall asleep anywhere anytime, in fact I feel like I'm falling asleep right now.
Having said that I will bid you all good night (good morning to most of you).
We love and miss you…
So weird we're here.
Just a quick one to say we have arrived safetly.
We are currently staying at Avigail’s aunt place at Stoughton, MA.
Stay tuned for more updates as we return from our first day together in Cambridge (we will return to Hebrew as soon as we connect our computer here).
