HaBayit Shelanu, Our House: The Tour, Part One

For now my home in Jerusalem is in French Hill with the Arzt-Mors: my colleague and friend Debby who is also on sabbatical from my school this year and is enrolled in a very prestigious program for senior educators at Hebrew University, her daughter and my former student/current roommate Tal, and her son Edan. Here are some pictures of our apartment.

This is a picture of Edan doing his homework in the living room. He is sitting at the table where we eat. He has a terrible cold, hence the roll of toilet paper.
This is Debby's computer which we use for Skype because mine is too slow. Skype, as I have mentioned before, is awesome and we talk to people all over the world for free.
This picture of our kitchen includes a few classically Israeli elements: the white electrical appliance that looks like a coffee pot which has as its sole purpose the boiling of water and is used in place of a tea kettle, the metallic silver dish scrubber (they also come in a copper color), and the blue post-it note on the front of the lower cabinet just to the left of the dish towel which reads "chalavi" and indicates that this is where the dairy set of dishes is kept in our kosher kitchen.
Another thing I've never seen outside of Jerusalem: the cabinet-mounted dish drain which is positioned such that your freshly-washed kitchenware drips into your sink.
And the part of the house where I'm headed now since it's just past midnight: my bed. Not usually this messy but it was laundry-folding day plus time to finally finish unpacking my luggage this afternoon.
We took lots more pictures, including some gorgeous shots of the neighborhood from the roof at sunset. Look forward to them in Part Two of the tour...coming soon!