sorry (hannah) i know it has been a while, i know. nothing much has happened tho. my teacher calmed down a bit and is not so bad anymore. she still loves me, and she really loves this boy jake. she calls him darling. it is really funny.
one boy, Noah, from quebec Canada is getting kicked out soon. as soon as he finds an apartment (he's an oleh hadash- new immigrant). it kinda sucks, cause he isnt one of the worst people here, but its really his own fault. i mean, he doesnt really come to class that much, and Ari (the director) made him sign a form saying he would get kicked out if he missed another class, and he missed the very next one. so kinda his fault.
a bunch of girls are changing rooms. my best friends here, sarah and alexis got in a huge fight that just kept getting worse and worse. one would do something and the other would try to get back, and it was just a spiral. they are roomates, so we figured they needed a break from eachother. at the same time, this annoying girl jenny kept begging ari for her own room (shes kinda selfish and single minded), so ari decided to move almost all the girls! by the end of this weekend, both sarah and alexis are moving into my building (but seperate rooms) and they are separating one set of roomates. then jenny and this girl Lena are switching rooms cause lena lives by herself. its kinda confusing, and a total drag, but im kinda excited to have all my friends in my building. and sarah and alexis made up and are good friends again, so everything is okay.
shanah tova! mahar rosh hashanah. hayom, anachnu halchanu ..... i dont know how to say the rest without my notes. and i dont know who can understand me anyways. so. tomorrow is rosh hashanah. today we went to the nursing home on the kibbutz and sang them songs. each person in my class had to read a little thing about one of the special foods that we eat on rosh hashanah. we eat olives because olive trees are a staple of life here in israel. we eat dates because...darn i forget. we eat beats because we beat back our enemies. we eat pomegranates because they have many seeds that represent mitzvot. we have carrots...i also forget that one. we have honey for a sweet new year. and stuff like that. i read the one about dates. then we said a prayer for peace, sang some more songs, and ate apples and honey. the old people loved it. they were so cute and sang along and corrected our hebrew. it was nice.
after that, sarah, alexis, and i went to our ulpan house mother's house so she could help us book our trip to turkey for over sukkot. we are trying to go to this place called kemer and stay at a 5 star+ resort with everything included: the air fare, room, food, discotheque, with a gorgeous pool and also right on the beach. we didnt book it yet because there were only 2 seats available on the plane, but we are on the waiting list and the travel agent said she would call if it opened up and book it for us right away. the resort is called sea life resort. it looks really nice.
this weekend i am going with sarah to stay with marsha elentuck. shes picking us up tomorrow. ill tell you all about it after it happens, but im very excited to a)get to know her better b)experience an israeli new year, and c) get off the kibbutz a little! i like it here, but there are limited activities.
im learning a lot of hebrew. it really is an intensive program. on day we learn past tense, the next future tense. every week we get a list of new words and the next class we have a test on them. we also usually have a test on subject material each week. so far i know past and future tenses for xxIx verbs. it probably doesnt make any sense to you, but there are 4 'buildings' of verbs. like action, posessive, ...non action...that sort of thing. i also know past for XXX verbs.
anyways, its time for dinner, so im gonna go. but i love you all and ill try to update more often.
shanah tova
btw, the title is the chorus of a popular israeli song. it means you will see you will see oh how nice it will be....
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Thanks for updating. I'm jealous you're going to Turkey. I hear it's beautiful. And since when did anyone eat other things besides apples and honey on Rosh Hashana? Oh, and Shanah tova to you too.
ReplyDeleteI used to sing that song at camp all the time. It was one of my faves.
ReplyDeleteoh yes hannah, dont you remember that plate of food with fig newtons and stuff at hebrew school? i dont remember anything other than the fig newtons and the weird chocolate chips that were called something like kartons or whatever. i dont know.
ReplyDeletehaha mommy. thats really funny that you used to sing that song!!!!
I try to block out fig newtons. I remember they used to give them to us at Sand Hill and I always thought they were really gross. Like waffers. Only, not similar in any way.
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