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Number of Cockroach Sightings: 0 <\/strong>(it seems they aren’t so keen on air-conditioning)<\/p>\n

Number of Burekas consumed:\u00a0 Lost count <\/strong><\/p>\n

Number of Crap Waitresses spotted in Karmiel: Like, the twenty fifth<\/strong><\/p>\n

We jumped on a sherut and 2 trains and escaped to family this shabbat in Bet Shemesh.\u00a0 The stress of the last few weeks had finally taken its toll, and we\u00a0were starting\u00a0to feel unwell.\u00a0 Luckily we had The Three C’s\u00a0 (Comfort, Cuisine and great Company) so we happily stayed indoors and rested, as the Lord commands.\u00a0 Bet Shemesh (especially Ramat Bet Shemesh) is one of those slightly bizarre parts of Israel where entire communities of Olim have upped and left their previous lives, only to set up shop with each other, and recreate their former existence.\u00a0 One could happily live there for 40 years and never speak a word of hebrew.\u00a0 The children however, pick up the language without much difficulty, and it will be interesting to see what effect these areas have on the\u00a0country as a whole over the next generations.<\/p>\n

It looks as if our dreams of buying a flat have been squished \ud83d\ude41 Each time we think it’s sorted, another problem rears its ugly head.\u00a0Having always been a person of faith in my creator, I am now starting to get the distinct impression that He doesn not want me to buy this house.\u00a0 Perhaps in a few years I will realise why, and be really really grateful that it didn’t work out.\u00a0 But at the moment, I’m just really pissed off.<\/p>\n

We looked at a rental which was lovely, and quite reasonably priced but the landlady had some weird thing about us keeping her furniture, which would not have been so awful except her sofas had clearly been in a dog fight, and I had no idea what to do with them.\u00a0 The kitchen was also a little small, and with it not being ours to mess about with I have no idea where we would store our fridge or how I would cook anything other than eggs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Having had no time to shop what with travelling and house viewings we ended up out for dinner this evening.\u00a0 Once again I was amazed at the crapness of the waitresses in this country – in this\u00a0 case the manager!\u00a0 We had to keep calling her back to top up\u00a0our water which she did one glass at a time, <\/em>she kept throwing out the previous plastic cups (god forbid anybody here should think about landfill), they didn’t have like half the ingredients required to make sushi (ok they had fish and rice but that was it –\u00a0how difficult is it to buy an avocado??) and she pretty much ignored her customers spending hours on the phone.\u00a0 I know that bad customer service is\u00a0accepted as\u00a0the norm in this country, the bit I don’t get is – How do they get the job in the first place??? Why does nobody sack them??? Israelis hate <\/em>getting bad value for money, so surely they would boot out bad employees? I worked as a barmaid and waitress in a\u00a0 big pub once.\u00a0 After a few months they noticed I didn’t seem happy serving food (I found it difficult not to wrinkle my nose when serving pork sausages)\u00a0 and eventually they sacked me.\u00a0 That’s how it goes.<\/p>\n

Sigh.\u00a0 We are not in Kansas anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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