What follows Sunday? Monday!
A new day, a new set of classes. The day started off with all of the Workshopers and Shnat-ers (Habonim Dror UK) meeting on the Basketball courts at 8:30 where we met the people who would be leading our Ulpan (intensive Hebrew courses). From there, we split up by kvutza (Kvutzat Poreh went to the moadon) to take the tests.
Personally, I found the Hebrew tests to be fairly easy, and at the risk of sounding more geeky, kind of fun. We got to match pictures with words, free associate in Hebrew, and even read a story from Rechov SumSum (the Hebrew version of Sesame Street). Since I got done fairly quickly, I had free time for about an hour and half which I used to take a very luxurious nap.
After the nap, Yom Kvutzah (Kvutzah day) began. We did a quick news-summary where people got into groups of 2-3, got a newspaper, and selected a few articles to comment on. My group deciding that standard newspaper wouldn't do; we went online and found two good articles: one about an elephant treadmill installation at the Anchorage Zoo, and one about face transplants for persons with severly disfigured faces.
After that we had a 30 minute break, and then another peulah (activity) where our madrichot (counselors), Noga and Caren Minkoff, forced us (sweatshop-style) to cut up vegetables. This led into a discussion about personal identies and our roles in society... don't ask me how, though.
After dinner, we had a peulah kef (fun activity) in which we played the game Mafia but with a twist: each of us came in a certain, random character style, but were assigned a secondary, secret character. After the townspeople woke up, each of us had to write a task for someone else in the group to do. IE: My secret character was the singer, so I wrote tasks such as: "Person A must serenade person B about how they brush their teeth."
After that, I was tired and went to bed.
posted by Dov @ 6:01 PM
1 Comments:
Dear Dov, thanks for your window into the mystery of what my son is doing in the holy land. Plus you've updated me on such important topics as zoo elephant fitness programs. I've enjoyed all your pictures and posts and the energy you've put into your communiques. Nonetheless, being a mom, and a Jewish mom at that, I have a suggestion that would increase readership; include quotes from other workshoppers about what they think of the classes, activities, facilities, etc. With that, your comrades and their families will check in more often and you'll be improving your already impressive journalistic talents. And for those folks who are more visually oriented: be sure that your photos include kvutzah members. Thanks and keep posting.
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