Hermon Last weekend we went skiing on Mt. Hermon in the Golan Heights. It was my first time being up there. The scenery is beautiful as you drive up the mountain and look down on the valley below. The next day while skiing the mountain itself was in the clouds, making for some interesting ski…
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Lower-Middle School Traffic Duty Most people who attend public school here live within walking distance of the school. Every morning the town is flooded with little school children walking to school. They have volunteers at many of the larger intersections with portable stop signs on long sticks with which they stop traffic to let the…
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Today during my break at ulpan I walked one and a half blocks to the sea. Its really beautiful. I could stare at the ocean for hours. And it made me think as my ulpan time nears its end, how thankful I am to have had this time to spend here in Israel, before I…
Read moreCoronavirus, Purim, and Elections!
Coronavirus, Purim, and Elections! I’m still in medical ulpan – my final exam is actually this coming Sunday. And for the past several weeks almost all we’ve talked about is the coronavirus. Each morning we start off by reading the latest headlines in Hebrew and learning any new words we can find. The virus hasn’t…
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Math Homework Lately, every night I get home I’ve been doing math homework pretty much all night. The boys are doing geometry, in Hebrew. The pictures are self explanatory but the directions are difficult to understand. This is mainly because the Hebrew language doesn’t actually have as many words as many other languages. This…
Read moreAnother song with an obscure Jewish reference
Another song with an obscure Jewish reference This is a song by Ehud Banai. I saw him live once in Phoenix, he’s really great although because he’s a bit of a singer-songwriter and a story-teller, the concert would have been better if I had understood hebrew better. But the songs were amazing. He seems to…
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