Home is Where the Bombs Aren't

Another fun little fact about my life in Israel is that I'm actually living in a bomb shelter. Certain rooms in apartments throughout the buildings are designated safe rooms. In case of an alarm we are supposed to go into the room and secure the window and door. The bomb shelter for my apartment is literally my bedroom.

With that little tidbit, I figured I would take this post to give you a little virtual tour of بيتي, or my house.

This is the main common area of our apartment. It's sort of a combined living room / dining room / kitchen.

This is a close up of the door you can see down the hallway in the previous photo. It's the outside door to my bedroom. I have a secondary door that shuts behind that one as well.

This is my bedroom / bomb shelter.

This is what my window looks like when it's all closed and locked up. Technically there's another solid metal barrier I can slide across between the metal blinds and the glass.

Another culturally interesting part of my room (and our apartment, and most dwelling areas in Israel) is this Mezuzah which is attached on doorways about 3/4 way up to the top of the door frame. Inside the case is a scroll which is inscribed with specific verses from the Torah.

Between freshman year in Ravine (literally a building in the middle of a ravine), sophomore year in Baldwin (a freshman only dorm), and junior year in a bomb shelter, I think I may be collecting some of the most interesting college housing experiences.