two months after

Well belive it or not, but the first two months are already over. They were characterize by ups and downs, by good and by bad weather. And for the suferfriends under us, by wavy days and not wavy days. Overall I can honestly say that I really enjoy beeing in Israel.

But of course the picture is not sooooo pink as and therefore lets give u a bit of an overview whats going on:
a) Well I for myself feel kind of good, Israel as a country is pleasant and specially the weather during winter is not too cold but also not too warm.Hence Im really enjoying even though I’m also looking forward to the spring with all its green and nice temperatures.
I can also say that I found myself or better my place somewhere in beteween the isareli and the german culture. (Working is rather german style, private life is rather the relaxed israeli way) Its not that easy, as isarelis try to push their way through and try to get everthing in their way, but if you fight this with a clear german planning/target, its usually not a problem. Logically following, in the cases I didn’t had this, they sometimes gave me a hard time, almost beeing pressed into something I didn’t really wanted.Overall so far not a problem, I struggled a bit at the start and by now I’m pretty much always prepared for this.

b) Getting the life organized in Israel. This is actually the biggest “Manko” right now. We still didn’t find a nice apartment, even though we searched hard during approx. the last 6 weeks,seeing around 40 apartments. This is a real hassle and living out of a your lugguage for more than 2 months now, kind of sucks. Moreover, after a long day at work, you wanna get home, into some kind of home feeling, which doesn’t really develop in a Hotel. This also means, buying own furniture, having your own bed, proper cooking in an own kitchen are things I really miss.“But” nothing we can do about this, we will just have to keep searching. If it doesn’t work in Tel Aviv, we might start looking around in the surrounding towns…who knows.(Btw. 3 Raume – Wohnzimmer, Schlafzimmer, Abstellkammer/Gasteraume mit ca. 60-80 qm kosten in einem aus deutscher Sicht vernuenftigen Zustand kalt ca. 1100 – 1400 Euro pro Monat)

c) Missing home and coming back home. I have to admit that I sometimes miss my family, my grannies and my buddys to hang out with. Sure I also have a bunch of good friends in Israel,
but well its not the same. In order to ease this pain I’m just now on the way to munich due to some business meetings and arrange to stay also some days with my homies. Besides that we are planning a 10 days trip sometime in March to go skiing, shopping and hopping around Munich…it will be great for sure.

And finally not to for get my beautiful partner  Beeing with my beloved girlfriend is amazing and a lot of times I wonder how we managed to fly always in and out during the last 1,5 years. Of course we are sometimes also having difficult times, but both of us are showing a great ability to get things straight and together. No worries, we are not getting married but we are having a great time together.

That’s it pretty much for now, well we cannot offer any vacation planning yet, as we don’t have an apartment yet. But don’t worry about it, soon I will put up some hotel recommendations and other tips and as soon by start of summer we will for sure have our apartment ready all the ones who are not afraid of the dangerous Israel. Little sidestep here. Israel bombed some buildings in Gaza two days ago. Spectacular or crazy, some of you might think. Well most newspapers didn’t even get it onto page 1, which means that most of
The Israelis don’t even get aware of it. Sueddeutsche took it on, with the amazing article length of about ½ page. You see after some time everything gets kind of regular.

I guess that’s it for now. Hope all of you are looking forward to eastern.
Take care and enjoy…your Sebastian / Sebo / Basti