Some other interesting things...with a sched

So yesterday, I was updating my blog, and the computer went to sleep. It, however, did not wake up from said nap, so I lost all that I had written :'-( So i will start again, and hopefully you will like this version more.

On friday, we went to on an archeological dig. I have done this before, but nevertheless it was still fun. We excavated the ancient site of Marisha, now called Tel Marisha. We found a signet ring, an intact amphora, lots of chicken bones, and a whole slew of pottery shards. We had to dig, then sift through everything with metal screens. We put all of the interesting things in "finds buckets" and handed those over to the real archeologists. We also went spelunking (climbing, crawling, and careening through a non-excavated cave), and I thought (as I did last time) that it was the best part. In the evening, we went to the old city of Jerusalem to shaar tzion where we were given sprigs of rosemary as our personal shabat spice. It was all very nice. We then went to the southwestern portion of har habait, the temple mount. We had our shabat services there, and then went to hakotel, the western wall. We had curfew at 2 in the morning that night (usually at 11 at night) which i spent getting to know some of the more interesting personalities on my trip.

We got to sleep in on saturday. Yay. Breakfast was optional wand ended at 9:30. I decided that it was utterly necessary to have breakfast or else I would be unhappy for the rest of the day. I woke at 9 and went to breakfast. They had some of the tastiest things yet, and I was the only kid on EIE that actually had breakfast that day. Crazy.... I went back to bed because wakeup was at 11. I woke at that point, took a shower, and went to tefillah (prayer). It was a very nice service, and I had an aliyah to the torah. The afternoon was just nice rest and relaxation. In the evening for motza''sh, we went to a mall nearby. I bought a fast-food schnitzel (chicken-cutlet), and it was really gross. I also bought a cheap watch because I was unable to read the time on my phone. All in all, good clean fun. We went to bed knowing that soon school would start...

Sunday was the first day of classes. First was hebrew, and that was exactly what we did. The whole class, not a word of English was spoken, and I learned a lot from it. If it keeps up like that, I will be infinitely more proficient in hebrew by the end of these four months. Next was Jewish History; the coolest class ever. As I've told you, I like Reuven's teaching style, but this class is truly my kind of learning. We are currently studying historical Judaism using the bible as an analytical text. We have come to many conclusions most importantly that the bible is a religious document and not a historical one. It was probably compiled more than 1000 years after the time of Moses. Remarkable. There are lots of other things in that class, and it is certainly the best class I have ever taken. i will have to take a few bible clases in college... J-Hist is 2:45 long so there is a break in the middle and at the end is lunch. Lunch was pretty uneventful.

After lunch, I had AP Calc AB. We had homework, but otherwise, nothing special. I then had the next two periods off, only to have AP Physics C afterwards. Also pretty uneventful, and with no homework. Then I had the next period off. Then dinner and announcements then homework time. I of course finished my homework pretty quickly having had two free periods to help with that. Most everyone else stayed up very late trying to finish theirs. I DID have a LOT of hw for hebrew, and it was very hard (the other three in the class thought so too). We finally finished it with help from Tom our Israeli counselor. All in all, a very tough first day of school, but much harder for everyone that had a real schedule.

On monday, we had basically the same nonsense though with more hw. I also had a meeting (a one on one class) with my Latin teacher and she basically convinced me that my Latin knowledge is absolutely horrendous. All sorts of splodey stuff. In the evening, I had a meeting with my English teacher. He is having me write a paper about sillynesses. I don't remember what though. I also was assigned a paper in J-Hist: Read the book of Jonah and write a paper on what the author is trying to tell the reader. Very nice, eventful day.

Today, tuesday, is pretty boring...I had hebrew and j-hist in the morning and have had calc. I am in the second of my free periods, and will have physics later today (we had wierd hw last night).

My schedule is as follows:

1 Hebrew 8-9:30 (1-2:30 AM EST)
2 j-hist 10-12:45 (3-5:45 AM EST)
lunch -1:40
3 AP Calc 1:45-2:30 (6:45-7:30 AM EST)
4 (mon) latin 2:45-3:30 (7:45-8:30 AM EST)
5(thurs) latin 3:45-4:30 (8:45-9:30 AM EST)
6 AP Physics C 4:45-5:30 (9:45-10:30 AM EST)
7 Free 5:45-6:30 (10:45-11:30 AM EST)
Dinner 6:35-7 (11:35-12 EST)
HW time 7:30-11:00 (12:30-3 PM EST)
Light's out 11:30 (3:30 PM EST)

Some interesting tidbits: We do have school on Sundays! On Wednesday, there is almost always a tiyul (trip) so it's best not to call on Wednesday unless its after noon EST. 4 and 5 periods are only applicable on mon or thurs respectively. Now for the important one: to call me dial 011-972-52-653-8063, but please be courteous as to the times I've provided. I look forward to hearing from you.