But not without its fair share of drama...:P
I started off the day with my first meeting of Intensive Hebrew. I don't know ANYONE in the class...no one from my ulpan class is opted in =P Oh well! The teacher seems okay so far, although I miss Michal =( Her teaching style seems pretty good so far, which is what's most important, but she was 5 minutes late for both sessions (and subsequently let us out late) and she took a phone call in the middle of the lesson. I don't like it when I feel like a professor isn't respectful of my time =\ Hopefully she was just having an off day? So far the people in my class seem very friendly, so I think it will be fun!
After that I quickly grabbed a sandwich and an iced coffee, then headed off to The Emergence of Biblical Israel. It's a long class (3.5 hour block), but the professor seems great and the material seems quite complementary to my Jews in the Second Temple Period course! It's about 20 people, so a bit bigger than I usually like, but seems really interesting so far. Plus my friend Arielle is in my class =D
Then she and I walked over to Israeli Politics, where we were joined by Kate and Carolyn. Seemed great, lots of friends and an interesting course! Then the professor walked in and informed us that he had some news. The course time had to change because he had double-booked this course with a course he is teaching at the university, and Rothberg had suggested Sunday and Tuesday mornings. I'm planning to do my internship on Tuesdays, so that didn't work for me, and several others in the class had issues as well. So, he tried really hard to accommodate everyone and see if he could find a time that worked for everyone. This led to an hour-long session of talking in circles. Finally, we found two viable options (both of which would have worked out reasonably well for me), and he went to discuss them with the head of Rothberg. Yoni said no, and to stick with the times they'd already chosen.
Soooooo Carolyn, Kate, Arielle and I all left! I headed down to the library to research alternatives. I was hoping to find a class at that time, because I really liked the timing of my schedule. At first I only saw Foreign Policy of Israel, which a) doesn't really appeal and b) I DEFINITELY didn't have the background for. But then I found Issues in the Study of the Holocaust: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders. I quickly scanned the syllabus and then dashed up to sit in on the last 10 minutes of the class. Afterward I rushed the professor, put my name on his sign-in sheet, and discussed the prerequisite. He said background in European history or modern Jewish history was required. I told him about my final project for Multicultural Education last year (MoHo friends may remember it as my baby!) -- writing a 3-week unit plan on teaching WWII and the Holocaust to middle school students from a multicultural perspective. I did extensive research on the period to prepare, and the professor said he thought that would give me enough background! I think the class will keep me on my toes, but I think it will really be worth it...although it'll end my Mondays and Wednesdays on a rather low note. The course culminates in a 6-hour field trip to Yad Vashem, which I'm sure will be incredible.
Finally I headed home to make some pasta and curl up in bed. It's been a long day! Time to veg with TV for a while, get ahead on my Hebrew homework, do my reading for Islam, and head to bed at a reasonable hour. On the menu for tomorrow: interview at AISJ, maybe a trip to the shuk, heading to campus to buy my textbooks and course readers (and hopefully take some more pictures), then my ONE Tuesday class! Wish me luck =)
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