Sunday, February 22, 2009
Why are weekends so short?
Even though this was actually a pretty long weekend, it still seemed short for some reason.
Thursday night i made pancakes! it was interesting. i had a sort of guideline of what to do from a place online, but i was mostly on my own. started with an egg, then some peach juice (no orange, no milk, i dont do water in pancakes that's lame), a little oil, baking powder, and then flour until it was the right consistancy. and then of course, chocolate chips as they were baking. they tasted a little...odd...but not too bad. we didnt have any syrup though :-( i hung out with sarah while i did all that, then kicked her out for some skype time with kimo, then just played around on the internet until i couldnt keep my eyes open. fridayyyyyy we slept in a bit, then i did laundry with my friend sarah which was fun. except i only did the absolute essentials--sheets, towels, underwear. so i still am severely lacking shirts. but i need to buy my own laundry detergent soon so i can do the rest and not steal sarah's detergent. ummmmm...then i was pretty much bored all afternoon, em went to the student village to hang with our girlies and cook dinner...hung out with becca a little bit and then went up, had dinner with awesome peeps, headed home, chilled out...yesterday we slept til 2, then aimlessly hung out most of the day, because we had no homework and it was disgusting outside. like, thunderstorms, hail, wind, rain, the whole shebang. sarah and got domino's cheesy bread for dinner. it was yummilicious. and we watched QAF of course. went to bed eventually...
today was the first day of classes. i had to buy notebooks and such first, so i went to the academon. i mistakenly got a five-pack of the 5x5 grid type notebooks instead of normal lines. which kind of sucks, cuz it's harder to read. but oh well. they were a steal. ummm...class was ok. Biblical figures and stories in Jewish, Christian and Islamic art. i'm not a huge fan of reading a lot of shite into paintings. but i have like...5 friendly people in the class, including em, so that's good.
we got out early, which was nice, cuz i could actually go back to the room and breathe before i had to run to my internship. caught the 12:20 bus, actually got there early, but my boss wasnt there and nobody spoke english and i couldnt remember my classroom teacher's name and everything was confused until i managed to figure it out. then i spent three hours helping to corrall kids that i couldnt understand with a teacher who doesnt speak english. her name is Wejdan. or something like that. she's Arab. very nice lady. the kids are adorable. it was just a little overwhelming. it'll get better as i start to pick up more easy hebrew stuff though. hopefully!
had to wait forever for the bus home, but eventually i got home, went shopping with em...then back to the room, dinner, hung out, etc. no homework yet, really, which is sweet :-)
but hebrew starts again at 8:30 tomorrow morning. urgh.
sleep time soon!
<3
Thursday night i made pancakes! it was interesting. i had a sort of guideline of what to do from a place online, but i was mostly on my own. started with an egg, then some peach juice (no orange, no milk, i dont do water in pancakes that's lame), a little oil, baking powder, and then flour until it was the right consistancy. and then of course, chocolate chips as they were baking. they tasted a little...odd...but not too bad. we didnt have any syrup though :-( i hung out with sarah while i did all that, then kicked her out for some skype time with kimo, then just played around on the internet until i couldnt keep my eyes open. fridayyyyyy we slept in a bit, then i did laundry with my friend sarah which was fun. except i only did the absolute essentials--sheets, towels, underwear. so i still am severely lacking shirts. but i need to buy my own laundry detergent soon so i can do the rest and not steal sarah's detergent. ummmmm...then i was pretty much bored all afternoon, em went to the student village to hang with our girlies and cook dinner...hung out with becca a little bit and then went up, had dinner with awesome peeps, headed home, chilled out...yesterday we slept til 2, then aimlessly hung out most of the day, because we had no homework and it was disgusting outside. like, thunderstorms, hail, wind, rain, the whole shebang. sarah and got domino's cheesy bread for dinner. it was yummilicious. and we watched QAF of course. went to bed eventually...
today was the first day of classes. i had to buy notebooks and such first, so i went to the academon. i mistakenly got a five-pack of the 5x5 grid type notebooks instead of normal lines. which kind of sucks, cuz it's harder to read. but oh well. they were a steal. ummm...class was ok. Biblical figures and stories in Jewish, Christian and Islamic art. i'm not a huge fan of reading a lot of shite into paintings. but i have like...5 friendly people in the class, including em, so that's good.
we got out early, which was nice, cuz i could actually go back to the room and breathe before i had to run to my internship. caught the 12:20 bus, actually got there early, but my boss wasnt there and nobody spoke english and i couldnt remember my classroom teacher's name and everything was confused until i managed to figure it out. then i spent three hours helping to corrall kids that i couldnt understand with a teacher who doesnt speak english. her name is Wejdan. or something like that. she's Arab. very nice lady. the kids are adorable. it was just a little overwhelming. it'll get better as i start to pick up more easy hebrew stuff though. hopefully!
had to wait forever for the bus home, but eventually i got home, went shopping with em...then back to the room, dinner, hung out, etc. no homework yet, really, which is sweet :-)
but hebrew starts again at 8:30 tomorrow morning. urgh.
sleep time soon!
<3
Thursday, February 19, 2009
new pics
my second batch of pictures is up, HERE.
i put a lot of titles on this time, so hopefully you wont be confused, and i'll go back and title the others that i hadn't yet. so check back there too.
today we went to the shuk. my friends bought stuff for shabbos dinner tomorrow. i bought the cake, since i can't bake it since there are NO OVENS in any of the dorms. grar. we also went to the pharmacy on ben yehuda. fun stuff.
oh yeah. i had my "three hour test" today, which ended up taking me all of an hour 15, because it was really only 4 pages. two double sided. yeah. pretty easy, so i think i did ok. :-)
after the test we came back to the room, and i made something so yummy i think it may be my new favorite breakfast. i did a scrambled egg, then buttered one side of a piece of bread and put it in the pan with cheese on top until the cheese was melty, put the egg on and voila. yummyness. then we crashed. slept for a little over an hour. then got up, computered, went to the shuk, v'zeyoo (and that's it).
now i'm just chilling...em's going out with some of her friends tonight, so i shall have the room to myself. prob will do some reading, or maybe watch something online. yeah.
enjoy the pics!
i put a lot of titles on this time, so hopefully you wont be confused, and i'll go back and title the others that i hadn't yet. so check back there too.
today we went to the shuk. my friends bought stuff for shabbos dinner tomorrow. i bought the cake, since i can't bake it since there are NO OVENS in any of the dorms. grar. we also went to the pharmacy on ben yehuda. fun stuff.
oh yeah. i had my "three hour test" today, which ended up taking me all of an hour 15, because it was really only 4 pages. two double sided. yeah. pretty easy, so i think i did ok. :-)
after the test we came back to the room, and i made something so yummy i think it may be my new favorite breakfast. i did a scrambled egg, then buttered one side of a piece of bread and put it in the pan with cheese on top until the cheese was melty, put the egg on and voila. yummyness. then we crashed. slept for a little over an hour. then got up, computered, went to the shuk, v'zeyoo (and that's it).
now i'm just chilling...em's going out with some of her friends tonight, so i shall have the room to myself. prob will do some reading, or maybe watch something online. yeah.
enjoy the pics!
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
hewwo.
hokay. so. updates. um, um. class, blah. class, blah. singing, blah.
today, had my oral test. bleh. i guess i didnt suck completely, cuz the teacher was like, don't worry, you speak beautifully. so, yeah. *shrugs*. then i had over an hour's break...went to go get money, wandered through the Academon (school storeish place, where they have EVERYTHING--except what you really want), walked back to school through the botanical garden which was soothing, got a chocolate croissant, hung out with people...more class...then we had a WONDERFUL performance, guy named Liron, on guitar and hang. the hang is a drum-ish thing that makes the most wonderful sounds...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_drum, listen to the clips. i wish i'd had my camera! it's soooooo cool. and this guy's HANDS, oh MAN they were moving so fast on the drum that you could hardly see 'em...makes me wonder what else he can do with 'em ;-) juuuuust kidding. but seriously. it was great. then MORE class...then finally the day was over. no more ulpan, after my test tomorrow! yay!
headed home, computered, ate a quick sandwich, and then headed to my internship site! Met my boss, Adena, who is a wonderfully quirky lady, who is obsessed with frogs. there must have been over 200 in her office, statues, stuffed animals, what have you. even her computer mouse was a frog. jeesh. she's really cool though. and i'm gonna be working with the older babies--around 18-24 months. LOVE. there's one named Hamish. i think i want to adopt him. so i played with them for a bit...it's gonna be great. except that the teacher doesnt speak english, only hebrew and arabic. so that's gonna be interesting. i may actually get some use out of my rusty hebrew! Yay. the only issue that's arisen is getting there...i took a taxi both ways today, cost me over 70 shekels. that's like 17 bucks. yikes. margot says the #30 bus goes there, so i'm going to try that on sunday, i think. :-\
let's see...other than that, not much else is new. i have new pics on the comp, will try and get them on photobucket soon. but for now, i should probably go study :-(
here's a teaser though!
view from the top of the faculty building at school. hells yeah!
today, had my oral test. bleh. i guess i didnt suck completely, cuz the teacher was like, don't worry, you speak beautifully. so, yeah. *shrugs*. then i had over an hour's break...went to go get money, wandered through the Academon (school storeish place, where they have EVERYTHING--except what you really want), walked back to school through the botanical garden which was soothing, got a chocolate croissant, hung out with people...more class...then we had a WONDERFUL performance, guy named Liron, on guitar and hang. the hang is a drum-ish thing that makes the most wonderful sounds...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_drum, listen to the clips. i wish i'd had my camera! it's soooooo cool. and this guy's HANDS, oh MAN they were moving so fast on the drum that you could hardly see 'em...makes me wonder what else he can do with 'em ;-) juuuuust kidding. but seriously. it was great. then MORE class...then finally the day was over. no more ulpan, after my test tomorrow! yay!
headed home, computered, ate a quick sandwich, and then headed to my internship site! Met my boss, Adena, who is a wonderfully quirky lady, who is obsessed with frogs. there must have been over 200 in her office, statues, stuffed animals, what have you. even her computer mouse was a frog. jeesh. she's really cool though. and i'm gonna be working with the older babies--around 18-24 months. LOVE. there's one named Hamish. i think i want to adopt him. so i played with them for a bit...it's gonna be great. except that the teacher doesnt speak english, only hebrew and arabic. so that's gonna be interesting. i may actually get some use out of my rusty hebrew! Yay. the only issue that's arisen is getting there...i took a taxi both ways today, cost me over 70 shekels. that's like 17 bucks. yikes. margot says the #30 bus goes there, so i'm going to try that on sunday, i think. :-\
let's see...other than that, not much else is new. i have new pics on the comp, will try and get them on photobucket soon. but for now, i should probably go study :-(
here's a teaser though!
view from the top of the faculty building at school. hells yeah!
Monday, February 16, 2009
scratch that!
got a router, the guy from the school finally called back and was like, come with me right now to the kfar (student village) and you can have a router for 250NIS and get 70NIS back at the end of teh year when you return it. and the girls across the hall will split it with us too. so ALL IS GOOD. my friend margot is gonna come install it later tonight. for now, back to studying while em has her skype date with one of her friends from home.
ROARRRRRRRRRR
number one source of frustration: NO ROUTER still. roar.
back up.
Saturday we slept in a bit, made french toast with our friend Sarah for breakfast--SO GOOD. Then we hung out, watched QAF, i did homework, blahdeblah...then we went out! Our friend Ari turned 18, which is the drinking age here, so we took her out to dinner at a place called Cafe Cafe and then to a bar called Goldy's...very fun, even if we WERE out til after 1.
Sunday (yesterday), class, blah, studying, blah...We found out that we have an oral final on wednesday (5 min alone or 10 with a partner, on one of 5 topics) and a THREE HOUR WRITTEN FINAL on thursday. EEEEEEK. Anywho. Then we were gonna go to the router store place but emily wasn't feeling good. So no. hung out all afternoon, then i went to the Jeff Seidel center for dinner and a talk about Kabbalah. It was quite fascinating, and the guy talking was HILARIOUS. Kabbalah is cool shit. yep. then back to the room, internet, studying, yeah.
TODAY. let's see. more class. lecture about israeli money that i slept through. then. we were planning to go to the place, Ivory, to get the router. but it might cost more to get there and back in a taxi than it would to just get the frikkin' $60 router from Bezeq. So i've been calling hither and thither, trying to find directions from Ivory (call got disconnected), trying to see if Bezeq has a better deal (my friend Avi said she got a deal where when she returned the router, she got money back. the guy i finally talked to at Bezeq seemed to say that this wasn't possible, although he was very confusing) and the rep at our school didnt have the answer, gave me another guy's number who's supposed to be the tech guy for the school, i've called like 10 times (what kimo calls "spamming" someone) and he wont pick up. Emily's cousin who was supposed to look for a cheaper one is on his way to barcelona, but his wife is trying to work on it for us. we thought about just GOING, and figuring it out when we got there, but i'm just not in the mood anymore for a trek to the city (plus em has a skype date in less than two hours now). ROAR. i mean, after one little spat, we have pretty much settled into the whole sharing thing, but it's really frustrating still.
another frustration: we were supposed to get a new desk in our room yesterday. they made us clean off our desks before class (no easy task, lemme tell ya). Get home after class, no new desk. they appear to be installing one for some peeps down the hall. wait, wait, wait...eventually it came to light that the desks they ordered? TWO INCHES TOO SHORT FOR THE FRAMES. smaaaaaaart. so we get another letter under our door today, "the desks are going to the carpenter to be fixed. we'll let you know when you need to clean off again". BAH HUMBUG.
also, it's cold. windy. brrrrrr. yea yea yea, not as cold as MA, but for HERE, it's chilly. i no like it.
i dont want to study, i dont want to do an oral exam (even though we're allowed to have notes), i just want ulpan to be over and i get a good grade (speaking of which i got a 90 on my test from last week, which is wondrous) and yeah. i'm actually LOOKING FORWARD to regular classes, simply because they're in ENGLISH. five hours of hebrew is just...ow.
*headdesk*
over and out.
back up.
Saturday we slept in a bit, made french toast with our friend Sarah for breakfast--SO GOOD. Then we hung out, watched QAF, i did homework, blahdeblah...then we went out! Our friend Ari turned 18, which is the drinking age here, so we took her out to dinner at a place called Cafe Cafe and then to a bar called Goldy's...very fun, even if we WERE out til after 1.
Sunday (yesterday), class, blah, studying, blah...We found out that we have an oral final on wednesday (5 min alone or 10 with a partner, on one of 5 topics) and a THREE HOUR WRITTEN FINAL on thursday. EEEEEEK. Anywho. Then we were gonna go to the router store place but emily wasn't feeling good. So no. hung out all afternoon, then i went to the Jeff Seidel center for dinner and a talk about Kabbalah. It was quite fascinating, and the guy talking was HILARIOUS. Kabbalah is cool shit. yep. then back to the room, internet, studying, yeah.
TODAY. let's see. more class. lecture about israeli money that i slept through. then. we were planning to go to the place, Ivory, to get the router. but it might cost more to get there and back in a taxi than it would to just get the frikkin' $60 router from Bezeq. So i've been calling hither and thither, trying to find directions from Ivory (call got disconnected), trying to see if Bezeq has a better deal (my friend Avi said she got a deal where when she returned the router, she got money back. the guy i finally talked to at Bezeq seemed to say that this wasn't possible, although he was very confusing) and the rep at our school didnt have the answer, gave me another guy's number who's supposed to be the tech guy for the school, i've called like 10 times (what kimo calls "spamming" someone) and he wont pick up. Emily's cousin who was supposed to look for a cheaper one is on his way to barcelona, but his wife is trying to work on it for us. we thought about just GOING, and figuring it out when we got there, but i'm just not in the mood anymore for a trek to the city (plus em has a skype date in less than two hours now). ROAR. i mean, after one little spat, we have pretty much settled into the whole sharing thing, but it's really frustrating still.
another frustration: we were supposed to get a new desk in our room yesterday. they made us clean off our desks before class (no easy task, lemme tell ya). Get home after class, no new desk. they appear to be installing one for some peeps down the hall. wait, wait, wait...eventually it came to light that the desks they ordered? TWO INCHES TOO SHORT FOR THE FRAMES. smaaaaaaart. so we get another letter under our door today, "the desks are going to the carpenter to be fixed. we'll let you know when you need to clean off again". BAH HUMBUG.
also, it's cold. windy. brrrrrr. yea yea yea, not as cold as MA, but for HERE, it's chilly. i no like it.
i dont want to study, i dont want to do an oral exam (even though we're allowed to have notes), i just want ulpan to be over and i get a good grade (speaking of which i got a 90 on my test from last week, which is wondrous) and yeah. i'm actually LOOKING FORWARD to regular classes, simply because they're in ENGLISH. five hours of hebrew is just...ow.
*headdesk*
over and out.
Friday, February 13, 2009
okay okay okay
urm. nothing very special going on.
today in class, we had some actors come in. they put on a funny skit thing and then had ppl from the class do whose-line esque things (improv)....in hebrew. yeah. it was kind of fun. then we played a game. and in the morning she gave us chocolate. :-D almost but not quite made up for the fact that we had school on a friday :-(
went to the IT guys yesterday and found that we can get a router for 120 sheks over in givat shaul. that's sunday's task.
I GOT THE INTERNSHIP. YAY!!! will be working in an Arab-Jewish preschool at the YMCA in jlem. my friend margot will be too...i'm super excited! also, there is a reunion in december. in MALIBU, CA. HELLS TO THE YEAHHHHHH.
we went to the store yesterday and got more nummies. aka wacky mac (a little disappointing), shnitzel (more like chicken nuggets) which was tonight's dinner...more tuna...yeah. good stuff. it's so nice having a closer supermarket than evil mr zol's up in french hill. well, okey, it's not evil, it's good, but it's FAR. especially when carrying heavy groceries. so yeah.
weekend plans: watching a movie and drinking wine tonight with becca, tomorrow taking our friend ariana out for her birthday after shabbos ends. :-D
<3
today in class, we had some actors come in. they put on a funny skit thing and then had ppl from the class do whose-line esque things (improv)....in hebrew. yeah. it was kind of fun. then we played a game. and in the morning she gave us chocolate. :-D almost but not quite made up for the fact that we had school on a friday :-(
went to the IT guys yesterday and found that we can get a router for 120 sheks over in givat shaul. that's sunday's task.
I GOT THE INTERNSHIP. YAY!!! will be working in an Arab-Jewish preschool at the YMCA in jlem. my friend margot will be too...i'm super excited! also, there is a reunion in december. in MALIBU, CA. HELLS TO THE YEAHHHHHH.
we went to the store yesterday and got more nummies. aka wacky mac (a little disappointing), shnitzel (more like chicken nuggets) which was tonight's dinner...more tuna...yeah. good stuff. it's so nice having a closer supermarket than evil mr zol's up in french hill. well, okey, it's not evil, it's good, but it's FAR. especially when carrying heavy groceries. so yeah.
weekend plans: watching a movie and drinking wine tonight with becca, tomorrow taking our friend ariana out for her birthday after shabbos ends. :-D
<3
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