So I have started both things: the laboratory and the job in the morning. I can’t tell which of them is the worst. In the lab I am sometimes wondering how can somebody with so little knowledge, as I have got, start chemistry. It is like an adventure. Still I will have to complete all my deficiencies, if you will be here, the study will go easier. I am taking off the rust from my brains, so my heart can send some fresh blood into it.
The job is not so bad only I have to sleep somewhere in town otherwise I won’t be able to be there in time. There are about 14–16 machines to be washed. When the night is dry the job is easy, but when wetness covers the machines, I am having a hell of a time. Not only it takes double time, but it is never nice enough for the customers who don’t spare their voices and vocabulary to tell me what they think.
The party takes the heaviest toll. There is no excuse for me. We are approaching the X Congress. I shall try NOT to be a delegate so I can quietly study at least during those three days without being chased from one «extraordinarily important session» to some other action where I am «indispensable». Slowly I am convincing the Secretary about me being a student also for studies and not only for political activities in the University.
I was looking for a room in the neighbourhood of my working place but I couldn’t find anything good for us. Still I hope that in the worst case we can stay in the students home. I demanded permission for this from the Students organization and in principle there is no opposition. The trouble is that there is not much privacy in such students homes and I don’t see why should I share those very few moments I can have with you with two dozen strangers.
Say Bruri, what’s your opinion about getting married in the course of Hanuka! There is a whole week, when the University is closed and outside study I can have a spell of time to be with you more than five minutes a day. We can have a couple of days in Tel Aviv or Haifa too. If not in Hanuka I can’t see when next there will be such an occasion. Don’t forget to convey my greetings to Naama, and don’t forget that I love you more than ever. If your eyes are getting tired, go to an eye specialist at once, the glasses won’t spoil your beauty. I shall be in Tel Aviv on the 6th in the afternoon.
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