Update: I think my grandma will be okay. I don't know if my dad had it wrong (he explained the situation to my mom, who then told me) or if my mom just accidentally said the wrong thing, but her bowel is ulcerated, not perforated. Thank God. >.< She does just have one working kidney, but you can live with that. She came very close to accidentally ( Read more... )

Please pray for my grandma... She was having severe diarrhea for days and days and refused to do anything about it. By the time my dad convinced her to go to the hospital, both of her kidneys had shut down and part of her bowel got perforated... They got one kidney to work, but they don't know about the other one because it's pretty damaged. I don' ( Read more... )

The first chapter is finished! :D

( Olam HaChalomot )

So that I don't let my Hebrew degenerate over the summer, I'm planning on writing a story series in Hebrew ( Read more... )

( Nightmares... )

So the "Turkish language award" has been changed to "near eastern studies stipend." And when it did that, I decided to email my Hebrew professor, Nava, to see if she knew anything about it. Her response ( Read more... )

Jesse was talking in his sleep again ( Read more... )

At the end of the year last year, Beketsev (the Latin-Israeli dance class) sent out a survey to get creative answers for their end-of-the-year presentation. One of the questions was asking what we're running away from in a particular song, and was like "pictures from the internet are welcome". I found the squirrel. So then there didn't end up being ( Read more... )

For the Hebrew final exam, I was expecting my professor (Nava) to give us some brief topic, and tell us to write somewhere in the vicinity of 5-10 pages for an essay about it. Instead, she gave us a 35 page single-spaced play in smallish font, and we are supposed to read that and then write an essay about it, as well as writing an additional act to ( Read more... )

I got a job! This summer, I'm going to be working in a plant lab studying micorrhizae. It turns out that they do a lot of confocal microscopy and FRAP, which is a bit unusual, and I have lots of experience with it. :D So that probably helped me, and she said that I "came very highly recommended," so she hired me right on the spot! It sounds like I' ( Read more... )