Landed
I’m sorry but my posts from overseas will be in English. The problem is not the non-Hebrew keyboard which I have no issue with. The problem is that I’m runnin Firefox on an Ubuntu 5.10 Linux system and I don’t feel like fussing with any Linux files right now. Right now being 22:11 local time after more than 24 hours of little to no sleep. Oded, if you’re reading this and have a quick solution, put it up.
Ok, we arrived at Natbag a bit late past 21:00 in Tel-Aviv. After some two hours of checking in, I managed to let my family go and get to the boarding gate at some time passed 23:00. Boarding was delayed and thus the flight and we took off around 00:30 on Friday.
The flight was 12 hours and took us over Turkey and most of Europe, over Greenland and back down through Labrador Lake into Newark airport… from the west. We landed after little to no sleep on the plane, about two stories read and half of Firewall watched. It’s quite bad despite the rotten quality. The time was now 5 in the morning on Friday. That’s when our day officialy began.
Getting out of the airport was quite smooth but took us two hours. And not because my backpack tore in half before I could get it up into the overhead storage compartment. We took a bus to Port Authority, which should have been quick but took another hour, and we strolled around the station (Me with 16 tons of gear in plastic bags) looking for the Greyhound station. Upon finding it, we set out to the gate, to get something to eat and to call the camp. The free call was a bust because the card ran out and Burger King only served breakfasts at a quarter to 9 am. I decided to ditch the search for food in favour of the search for backpacks. After all is said and done, I got me a backpack, spent two dollars notifying the camp of our arrival, got a funky sandwitch for $4.43 and did an easy Sudoku.
3 hours later, we arrived at Albany, waited another 30 minutes and departed to Warrensburg. We arrived at Warrensburg close to 4pm and concluded that although their bus establishments are simpler, they are quite better. They have better and kinder bus-boys and very funky drivers.
We stepped into camp a bit after 4pm and began getting to know the staff. We signed in, I delivered my late mass of papers and got me a shirt. We settled in for temporary bunks and continued to dinner. Tony Stein, the camp owner, introduced himself and sent Brett and Amanda to show us the premises. We’ve been almost everywhere and now that day is over and the Jet-lag is taking over me. So I’ll just finish this up and go to sleep.
And to everyone that stayed in Israel, Good Morning!
Posted in No Category by Eran with 9 comments.
הי ילדי!
היום שבת רבע לעשר בבוקר לפני שאני מתחילה בנקיון השבועי התישבתי לראות אם כתבת משהו ושמחתי לראות שכן שהגעתם והתארגנתם והכל בסדר מה שלא הבנתי זה האם מצאת תרמיל חליפי לזה שנפתח אם לא אני יכולה לשלוח לך את התרמיל הירוק שקניתי לך בזמנו לצבא.
מצאנו את לוח הזמנים ששכחת אבל אותו לוח ישנו גם באתר של המחנה.
מכיון שהבטחתי ואמרתי לעמיחי שהבטחות יש לקיים אשלח לך אותו בכל זאת בדואל.
שיהיה לך בכיף אמא
I said I got a backpack. It’s quite better than the one you gave me. When I bring it back you can use it too.
It cost me $17. Is that too much?
17$ לפי 4.5 שח זה 76.5 שח נראה לי מחיר טוב בארץ תרמיל טוב אי אפשר להשיג בפחות מ100 שח.
לא הבנתי – “חומת אש” רע *למרות* האיכות המחורבנת ?
$17 זה מחיר טוב לתיק טוב. בקשר למקלדת עברית – אחד הפתרונות זה להשתמש במקלדת וירטואלית: יש באתר שלי קישור לאחת (תחת “software”) – זה עובד לא רע.
פתרון אפשרי אחר זה להוסיף תמיכה במקלדת עברית ל-ubuntu שלך – אם יש לך חשבון משתמש משלך אז זה צריך להיות טריוויאלי למדי, ואם יש לך גישת root אז זה יהיה ממש פשוט.
Firefox, not firewall. I think that’s what you meant.
I don’t have root access, nor my own account. And besides, they told us not to do anything beyond “using” the computers so I guess even downloading my camera data or reloading my UMP will be out of bounds.
then the virtual keyboard should do the trick (link on my site). But still, supposedly you’d be able to go to System->Preferences->Keyboard and add an israeli layout.
Ok, I’ll try that.
I’ve managed to add the layout but how do I switch between English and Hebrew?
It should be obivous :-)
go to “Layout options”, and under “Group shift/lock behavior” select the combination of keys you want to use for switching. Most people prefer alt-shift, for some reason.
You might also want to right click the panel and “add” the “Keyboard indicator” applet.