The Once and Future (and imperfect, and plu-perfect, and imperative) King

Sorry about the lack of updating...have actually been pretty busy with everything....

Anyhow, here's an update on the life here...

First of all, I have officially moved to a new room. The final night I was there, we had a bit of a blow-up... It seems that come 11:30, when I was ready to sleep, they wanted to watch a movie in the room. I asked them to go somewhere else and was told, 'no---take a sleeping pill' (except they don't really speak any english, so it was more communicated through sign-language...but you get the idea). Well, this escalated, and eventually we reached the agreement that they would take my key to the Ulpan-Lounge and watch the movie there. Well, when they came back an hour later (very, very, very stoned...but not in a relaxed way. More in a "Look how funny man hand looks!" sort of way), they woke me up, and when I asked for the key, told me they lost it. I made them go search (I'm not sure if I believe them or not, btw), and they never found it.

Anyhow, I didn't get to sleep til 2:30, and the next day switched. I now have my OWN room, in another building that is SO quiet. It is wonderful.

My job, I love. I play with kids all day long. Today, for instance, I ran around with 15 6-year olds, playing "follow the monkey" and other games such as that... it was so much fun...

The other big news is that i have been adopted by a family here. It's one of my kids parents, and they are wonderful. She is British and he is a Sabra....and they are so welcoming and warm...it's fantastic, and a nice way to get away while not leaving...

That's about it in my life. I'm studying a ton right now, and my Hebrew is getting better all the time (better, better, beeeeeter), getting so much better all the time. Working with the kids is really good for it..

as is the fact that I need to take a Hebrew exam for HUC on tuesday, so I've picked out 300 or so basic fluency words that I don't know well (colors, shapes, foods, connecting words, verbs, etc...), and am flashcarding it up.

With that in mind, I'm gonna go study.

Hope everyone is well, and I'll post more pictures of the kibbutz soon-


Daniel