Hana is Polish but made aliyah, or immigrated to Israel and became a citizen, three years ago. We all live in her apartment which she usually shares with her aunt, but her aunt is in France this year so we all get to live here while the aunt is away. Hana works five part-time jobs and is a full-time student at the university so we do not see her often. Her two most commonly-used expressions in English are "But, wait!" and "Fine, so...", both of which she uses to introduce new ideas or shift the topic of conversation. She has an overwhelmingly useful amount of local knowledge since, unlike the rest of us suckers, she actually lives in Jerusalem full-time so I consult with her often about which bus to take to get places. Hana and I have many unique and somewhat surprising things in common including our religous backgrounds, our relationship histories, our preferences for glitter nail polish, and the fact that we both worked at Jewish summer camps in the States this past season. She is very generous and I have benefitted from this in many ways but most notably in that she sometimes lets me use her computer for Skype. Hana is overwhelmingly photogenic and these two photos do not in any way do her beauty justice because they are both action shots. I am forever indebted to her for introducing me to soup nuts, a form of Israeli crouton, which I accidentally thought was a breakfast cereal at first until she found me in the kitchen one morning dousing a bowl full of them with 1.5% milk and politely corrected me.
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