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| Tuesday, December 19, 2006 |
| Put on your yamikah, it's time for chanukah! |
Since I have a fairly intimidating midterm hanging over my head that is due relatively soon... I decided to take this opportunity to catch ya'll up on the happenings in Jerusalem!
First off:
Hag Semach! (Happy Holiday!)
I hope everyone had an amazingly full and delicious Thanksgiving. I actually had classes. For some reason, Israel is not to keen on giving days off for each country's holidays. :( After I got out of class - around 8:00pm - I met up with two of my roommates, Jenny (who is a British Jew) and Chelsea. We were planning on going to the mall where there was a cinema, watch a movie, then head downtown. When we got to the mall, we discovered our movie wasn't playing. (We have not been able to find an online schedule and none of us have been able to navigate through the Hebrew voicemail system yet.) So we opted for shawarma and shopping - TURKEY shawarma, of course.  When the mall closed, we headed downtown to the well-known American pub. Mike's Place. (Not the one that's been bombed - that's in Tel-Aviv.) They had the TV tuned to the football game - Rock on Cowboys! We spent the rest of the evening watching football and talking to some guys that live on a kibbutz. So not exactly a traditional Thanksgiving but we had the all important turkey (and I had mashed potatos for lunch) and American football.
The next day, as a Thanksgiving "treat," Chelsea and I hit the town with one goal in mind. Find a tattoo parlor! We found one and both got new "bling." I got my nose pierced (thank you everyone for the input! Ken - I went with your suggestion and got a little diamond, it is purplish.) and Chelsea got her belly button pierced.
Other than that, I have been on various outings with my roommates and friends: late night burgers at the "I Love Burgers Bar," a quick coffee at an obscure coffee house/bookstore between classes, exploring as many bookshops as possible, finding a pharmacy that had Listerine! (Still no rubbing alcohol or Peroxide though.) Ect.
(This is Jenny, Alana, Chelsea, and Courtney when we all went to dinner at one of our favorite places: the Focaccia Bar. I do not know why everything is called "bar" when it has nothing to do with a bar.)
That is about the extent of my "fun." Classes take up a large portion of each day. I always have one mid-morning class, then an evening class. Since my dorm is too far away to conveniently walk back for a nap, I usually hit up the library. It is nice and warm with lots of good books and the gentle snores of numerous other diligent students. Classes are still very interesting. Though the more and more that I dig into these subjects and start to understand what is going on, I realize more and more how much I do not know! When I came, I wanted to learn a little more Greek, learn Biblical Hebrew, and maybe a little Akkadian since it was required... but now it just keeps multiplying! Ugraritic is what Akkadian is based on so that would give a deeper understanding to Akkadian (which I am loving and what to know even more) and then all Semitic languages are developed from Akkadian so now I want to go on and learn a little Aramaic since I am already getting a taste of it... and that doesn't even start in on learning the Romance languages which are the best way to enhance Egyptian and etc etc!! Everything is connected. And that is simply for languages! I wish I could just know it ALL - and NOW. :D Oh well, I will just keep my nose to the grindstone and see where life leads me and how much I can learn on the way!
And I think that catches ya'll up to December 13th.
December 14th was Dad's birthday!
        
I miss you and wish I could have been there to celebrate with you! (Or that you could have come here and celebrated with me!)
December 15th and on will have to wait until the next post so this one won't get too long. Thankfully for ya'll, I have another midterm that I'll want to put off so I'll post soon. There will be beaches! |
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