I don’t have much time right now to update as I am supposed to leave for class in about five minutes. The time is 7:45 in the morning. I have class at 8:30. How is this even possible?? It seems too, too cruel to make college students who were expecting to basically be on vacation for a semester wake up at 7! Too cruel. Oh well, I’m up and showered and ready to face the freezing winds and stinging rain. Woohoo, Israel!
Yesterday was my first day of class and it was impossibly difficult. My background in Hebrew is such that learning it in a classroom is entirely foreign to me: my parents speak Hebrew and thus I learned it from them, and aside from about two years when I was 8 during which I took real Hebrew lessons (where I learned to read and to sort of fail at writing), I have never formally learned it as a language. Thus, entering a class where everyone has spent years learning Hebrew in school and at the university means I am sort of left flailing! Oh I understand what they’re saying and I can answer quite easily (more easily than the Russian girls in my class or the American moms) and I certainly sound like an Israeli, but ask me to write a sentence and I guarantee I will misspell any word longer than four letters.
So that was my day. Today I’m going to figure out my placement and see if I can find something more fitting. I’ll keep y’all posted!
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