Not Too Much New
Not much new to report. Day-to-day I'm spending 4.5 hours trying to understand what my Ulpan teacher is talking about in Hebrew and the rest of the day I spend doing my homework, studying flashcards, or trying to learn to conjugate verbs. It's a barrel of laughs, I tell you! On Sunday, I have my first ever Hebrew test to determine if I'm able to continue in the same class or not. My teacher has faith in my abilities but I'm not so sure. I think I might be moving into a slightly lower level class soon but that is A-OK with me!
Jen's starting a less intensive Hebrew Ulpan next week - it's only twice a week in the evening. In our "off" time, we've become addicted to watching "24" on DVD and we just finished the second season.
But, it is Friday now and thus somewhat more relaxed than the rest of the week, especially since Jen and I have invitations to dinner tonight as well as lunch tomorrow so our only Shabbat preparation was buying challah (bread) and grape juice to bring to both events.
On Thursdays we try to visit someplace new in the city and so yesterday we went to the Bloomfield Science Museum. It was awful. Don't go unless you're an eight year old who loves science or his/her parent. There were very few interesting displays but one in particular that I enjoyed was a large electromagnetic field; it included the warning to keep credit cards away from it but I didn't read the warning until after I turned it on. Fortunately, my credit card worked at the grocery store a little while later.
There is serious construction going on in the building - an apartment three floors below us is being entirely renovated and this involves a lot of very loud work. Since the walls are concrete and stone, renovations require jack hammering, sledge hammering, and sawing through stone. It is incredibly loud. I've had to leave the apartment to study my Hebrew elsewhere this past week due to the noise. Now, there's a giant hole in the wall of the apartment under renovation, it looks like they're making a new door.
Don't miss our friend Anna's fascinating post (with a bunch of photos) about apartment life in Israel!
Shabbat Shalom!
Jen's starting a less intensive Hebrew Ulpan next week - it's only twice a week in the evening. In our "off" time, we've become addicted to watching "24" on DVD and we just finished the second season.
But, it is Friday now and thus somewhat more relaxed than the rest of the week, especially since Jen and I have invitations to dinner tonight as well as lunch tomorrow so our only Shabbat preparation was buying challah (bread) and grape juice to bring to both events.
On Thursdays we try to visit someplace new in the city and so yesterday we went to the Bloomfield Science Museum. It was awful. Don't go unless you're an eight year old who loves science or his/her parent. There were very few interesting displays but one in particular that I enjoyed was a large electromagnetic field; it included the warning to keep credit cards away from it but I didn't read the warning until after I turned it on. Fortunately, my credit card worked at the grocery store a little while later.
There is serious construction going on in the building - an apartment three floors below us is being entirely renovated and this involves a lot of very loud work. Since the walls are concrete and stone, renovations require jack hammering, sledge hammering, and sawing through stone. It is incredibly loud. I've had to leave the apartment to study my Hebrew elsewhere this past week due to the noise. Now, there's a giant hole in the wall of the apartment under renovation, it looks like they're making a new door.
Don't miss our friend Anna's fascinating post (with a bunch of photos) about apartment life in Israel!
Shabbat Shalom!
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