Back to School

We started our second summer session this morning and were thrilled to be continuing with our fantastic Hebrew teacher. There are five of us continuing from the first session and five new students who've joined us. It's exciting to see that so many people traveled to Israel, despite the suggestions of their friends and families not to come.

Unfortunately, three of the new students don't know their Hebrew aleph-bet. I feel bad for them because we're ahead of them by three weeks but I'm also disappointed that they didn't get their own class because they're (through no fault of their own, it's the CY's fault) going to slow us down. The three students are getting special tutoring during lunch from another Hebrew teacher to help bring them up to speed.

Two of the new students are spouses of Rabbinical school students and will also be here for a year, so it's exciting to meet people who we'll be spending large quantities of time with over the next year!

We're home for lunch today, which is a rare occurrence, because Jean is sick and we took her some food to hopefully help her feel better. OK, gotta' get back for afternoon classes! Bye!