Today we got out of most of ulpan to go on an archaeology field trip. There is a site very close to campus sort of where the Mount of Olives and Mount Scopus connect where they are sifting through dirt from the Temple mount from previous excavations when the waqf made emergency exits from the temple mount. So they have these big piles of dirt ( Read more... )

I have internet!!! It's one of those little things that is really a big thing and I should really be able to live with out fro two weeks but being without it for two weeks here was very challenging especially when things like credit card bills want to be paid. Anyways as of this evening I am back in the cyber world and can read exciting things ( Read more... )

yesterday the last half hour of ulpan was song class. It was just like elementary school...we had little song books and a teacher with a piano on the stage at the front of the room it was so much fun! Ulpan itself is still challenging but it is getting a little better. I feel like I'm trying to learn so much that really I'm not learning anything ( Read more... )