something tells me i'm into something good

so....now that gadna is over, we get our new class, Kita alef plus....or so we thought.

we walk into the new classroom, and our teacher smiles at us. her name is batiya, and she says welcolme to kita bet. she is used to teaching kita gimmel. she wants to teach gimmel. she speaks almost entirely in hebrew and covers topics very fast. she gets annoyed when we get confused. i have only had 2 classes with her, and am already scared shitless. the entire class is silent trying to figure out what the hell is going on. tension is high, but its not so bad. we all know we will learn a lot, we just wish she would be a little more patient, cause this is the first time we are learning hebrew, and we should really be in alef...not bet. its a little frustrating, and a lot of work. already we have a test tomorrow on words we learned yesterday. there are 25 words, she will say them and we have to use them in sentences. also we have about 6 sheets for homework (shur'ait ba'it) and some pages in our workbook on directions.

i also started learning some russian. there is a couple here who are engaged, art and luda. art is from the us, and joined the peace core. he got sent to Kazakhstan where luda was his russian teacher. they had to wait until he finished to get together (its really a very romantic story, but rather irrelevant). so basically, there is a professional russian teacher here, and she decided she would give lessons to us if we wanted. two people did, a boy james and a kibbutznik named leor. i found out about it later, so i just had my first class alone and not with them. she was very impressed with what i knew, although i was very saddened by how little i knew after a whole year. shes really nice, and her handwriting is soooo pretty! so now i can practice talking to the russians in russian and hebrew!!!

anyways, we went to this concert last night in haifa on the beach. it was kinda a bust. we went to one earlier in the program (im sure i wrote a blog about it with pictures) and that one was a lot of fun. but this one wasnt that great, so we left early.

im getting more comfortable here, and making more friends with the kibbutzniks, as well as some of the lone soldiers here, and some of the russians. its good. new people with interesting lives and interesting conversations.