So the past week or so has been spent in Ulpan classes, Hebrew lessons. We spend about five hours a day in class, and it's pretty hard but I think I'm starting to get it....Maybe. We have speakers come in almost every day speaking to us about Israeli culture, and immigrants, poverty, society, and the school systems that we will be teaching in. The speaker that has been with us for the past two days gave seminars on "teaching out of the box," demonstrating acting techniques that we could use while teaching. He was pretty cool, an old hippie dude with long gray hair that looked like he hadn't brushed it in years.
We have an Israeli contact person here in Be'er Sheva, who comes to most of our meetings and hangs out with us, gives us advice on what's going on in town. She took us all out last night, to a disco (or a club, but Israeli's call them discos), and we stuck out like sore thumbs. People were coming up to us asking "are you students or just tourists?" We were of couse standing in a big circle in the middle of the dance floor bopping around to the music, and of course any time a song in English came on, we all got really excited. In Israel, there is no max capacity for people, so it was jam packed, smokey, and pitch dark, with the occasional laser light that would flash all over the crowd. I was completely out of my comfort zone; this is not my kind of bar at all. If I want to dance, I will go see live music, not a DJ in a crowded bar with a laser light show. But I embraced the new experience, and actually had fun.
And Israeli boys are very cute.
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