Story of the day 11/4/2011 #3

Aaron is in Israel.

It has been somewhat of shock to him.
We sent him off with the requisite amount of underwear, all of it clean, and 5 months worth of hearing batteries and his special vibrating alarm clock.

Israels' electrical system operates on a different voltage than ours, so I also sent him with a plug adaptor and a strip with 4 outlets, so he could plug in his various devices.
The first evening, Aaron looked at what I had given him and gave up. He later, wen he called me, told me that i had sent him with the wrong thing,because the black strip doesn't plug into the wall.
I said, " the black strip plugs into the white adaptor. The white things is the adaptor, the black strip just gives you more outlets."

That evening, and I heard about this in his next phone call home, Aaron plugged in the white adaptor. then he plugged his alarm clock into it.
And the lights went out.
His roommate, who incidentally, is named Aaron and is also from Indiana, went down the hall and switched the circuit breaker and came back.

Aaron again tried plugging in his alarm clock.
This time the lights did not go out.
But the alarm clock did not go on.
I asked him if the other Aaron from Indiana was nice. he said, "Yes, he is very nice, and he is also nice enough to wake me up , every morning, since I do not have a (working) alarm clock."

At dinner, on Thursday, or lunch on Friday or whatever meal it was, this time change is making it a little tough on me, a young man came up to aaron and asked him if he was ready to go.
"Go where?'

"You know, the program we talked about."
"We didn't' talk about any program."

"You are Aaron, aren't you?" The young man asks as he stares at my son's ears...I mean hearing aids.
Which, of course , Aaron was.
I mean he was Aaron, he wasn't a pair of hearing aids, although, he was wearing them.
Aaron was also wearing hearing aids, which the other Aaron , who was going somewhere, wears.
And this student had only spoken with the other Aaron on the phone or by text, and thought he had found him, because, after all, how many students in the yeshivah would be wearing hearing aids. and, of course, he was named Aaron......
So , now, Aaron is on the look out for another kid with hearing aids, named Aaron, so he can ask him what he is doing for an alarm clock and if he is also from Indiana.