Shabbat Shalom

I moved in with my host family today. The house is beautiful and pretty new, with marble floors. The family has a maid which does all of the cleaning and most of the cooking. She only speaks Arabic, which is nice because it will force me to learn.







My Room







Tunisian food is ridiculously cheap. We went to get sandwiches today for lunch, and the most expensive one on the menu was 2 dinar, or $1.75
a cup of coffee or tea at a coffee shop will cost you around 300millim, or $.25

Arabic lessons are going well so far. Its been really helpful knowing Hebrew in terms of remembering the words. One thing that I found particularly interesting, is that unlike in Hebrew where when referring to mixed sexes you use the male, here, the male is barely used in everyday conversation, and everyone is referred to using female pronouns.