Whew!
Oh my! The last few days have been crazy! Classes ended last Thursday, we had a temporary roommate moved in, on Friday we went to the Israel Museum and prepared for and hosted a big Shabbat dinner and went to services, and today we went to services, went to a picnic all afternoon in the park and went to a dinner at a fellow student's house and Jean just left and she's abandoning us for three weeks.
After another three weeks of classes, another group of students left. However, almost everyone left this time versus last time where some stayed for the second summer session. The end of the second summer session also meant the end of our great Hebrew class. We couldn't let that happen so we got together with another student and the three of us have hired our Hebrew teacher to teach us two hours every day. We start this personal tutoring on Sunday and I just can not wait because I know we'll be progressing so very quickly with so much individual attention!
On Friday we started the morning working hard to get ready for dinner. I went to the bakery for bread and the grocery store for a bunch of items we needed for the expected five guests we'd have. On Friday we also welcomed a short-term roommate. Our roommate is a student from our Hebrew class who was kicked out of his apartment here in Jerusalem because the owners were going to move some evacuated family members from the war in the North into the apartment. Since our classmate is leaving for a few months on a kibbutz on Sunday morning, we welcomed him to live with us for the weekend.
Friday morning we got ready for and awaited our guest and later in the morning, five of us went to the Israel Museum, which is not far from our apartment at all. Jen and I obtained annual student membership at the museum for the low, low price of 100 shequalim (about $30) each. Now, we can go to the museum anytime we want! This is especially fantastic for Saturdays because now that we have membership, we need not buy tickets on Shabbat and we can just walk right over and look at the incredible art and Judaica collections.
Friday night dinner was a lot of fun and we even picked up an eighth participant on the way home form services. A fellow student was invited to a neighbor's house for Shabbat dinner but the neighbors ended up moving between the initiation and Friday night. So, we had an additional guest - luckily we had plenty of food. Jen's cooking was fantastic and the conversation and singing was great as well.
This morning we went to services and planned a small picnic afterwards. While at services, we found two more people to add to our picnic - fortunately, we had enough food for that, too. Such is life here - it's about being ready for additional guest, which makes things so much more fun. We went to a big park nearby and had a great picnic with about ten of us. We stayed from one until about 4:30 and then we had to get back to get ready for our dinner at another friend's house.
SO, we walked across town to dinner, bringing our extensive leftovers there. It was a great time and we stayed until after 9 and were just too tired to walk back so we broke down a grabbed a cab. For three of us at about $4.50, it was well worth it!
We went back to our apartment and said goodbye to Jean, who's going back to the States for three weeks during our break until early September. It was sad to say goodbye to everyone who's leaving for good and it was sad to say goodbye to Jean; it's been an incredibly seven weeks and we'll definitely miss her and those who've become such a part of our life during that time.
At least we still have Hebrew tomorrow morning with our wonderful teacher! But, we'll also be saying goodbye to our friend and roomate as he heads to his kibbutz!
After another three weeks of classes, another group of students left. However, almost everyone left this time versus last time where some stayed for the second summer session. The end of the second summer session also meant the end of our great Hebrew class. We couldn't let that happen so we got together with another student and the three of us have hired our Hebrew teacher to teach us two hours every day. We start this personal tutoring on Sunday and I just can not wait because I know we'll be progressing so very quickly with so much individual attention!
On Friday we started the morning working hard to get ready for dinner. I went to the bakery for bread and the grocery store for a bunch of items we needed for the expected five guests we'd have. On Friday we also welcomed a short-term roommate. Our roommate is a student from our Hebrew class who was kicked out of his apartment here in Jerusalem because the owners were going to move some evacuated family members from the war in the North into the apartment. Since our classmate is leaving for a few months on a kibbutz on Sunday morning, we welcomed him to live with us for the weekend.
Friday morning we got ready for and awaited our guest and later in the morning, five of us went to the Israel Museum, which is not far from our apartment at all. Jen and I obtained annual student membership at the museum for the low, low price of 100 shequalim (about $30) each. Now, we can go to the museum anytime we want! This is especially fantastic for Saturdays because now that we have membership, we need not buy tickets on Shabbat and we can just walk right over and look at the incredible art and Judaica collections.
Friday night dinner was a lot of fun and we even picked up an eighth participant on the way home form services. A fellow student was invited to a neighbor's house for Shabbat dinner but the neighbors ended up moving between the initiation and Friday night. So, we had an additional guest - luckily we had plenty of food. Jen's cooking was fantastic and the conversation and singing was great as well.
This morning we went to services and planned a small picnic afterwards. While at services, we found two more people to add to our picnic - fortunately, we had enough food for that, too. Such is life here - it's about being ready for additional guest, which makes things so much more fun. We went to a big park nearby and had a great picnic with about ten of us. We stayed from one until about 4:30 and then we had to get back to get ready for our dinner at another friend's house.
SO, we walked across town to dinner, bringing our extensive leftovers there. It was a great time and we stayed until after 9 and were just too tired to walk back so we broke down a grabbed a cab. For three of us at about $4.50, it was well worth it!
We went back to our apartment and said goodbye to Jean, who's going back to the States for three weeks during our break until early September. It was sad to say goodbye to everyone who's leaving for good and it was sad to say goodbye to Jean; it's been an incredibly seven weeks and we'll definitely miss her and those who've become such a part of our life during that time.
At least we still have Hebrew tomorrow morning with our wonderful teacher! But, we'll also be saying goodbye to our friend and roomate as he heads to his kibbutz!
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