Tuesday, February 2, 2010

In Which Jasmine Is Scatterbrained

Today was pretty much like yesterday, and the day before, etc. We had an improv hour in class today, which was excellent. In one part, we had to memorize a couple short lines from Waiting for Godot and then act them out for the class in different styles. My partner and I were very angry, boxers, and opera singers, and we got thunderous applause after each little part because we were totally great! I was shaking when I sat down though; getting up in front of people never ceases to terrify me (when I was in choir in high school I had the solo for a song that we performed and I spent the entire song trying not to show how much my knees were knocking together. Literally, knocking together). But it was fun too, and I was glad I did it and didn't punk out or just half-act.

I got a good grade on my test too, which sort of made my day. It's nice to know that despite the fact that I suck at grammar, I am still awesome at Hebrew.

Tonight I have to write an essay, and tomorrow I have an interview to help match me with an internship. I found some truly incredible places I would love to work with this semester: one of them is a bilingual school on the border of the Palestinian territory that teaches both Israeli and Palestinian kids together in the same classroom and I would get to tutor them in English. The other really awesome one is another tutoring gig, but with adults who need to improve their English before getting a degree in Education. And the last one is as a teacher's aide at a school for autistic kids. I'm so excited! I love teaching so much.

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