Last week we spent the week learning about the Holocaust. On Tuesday there was a Holocaust survivor who talked to us, then after we had class with a break for lunch, then we had night class. This sucked because in addition to having to learn about the Holocaust I was not able to see my [...]
Yesterday we found out that for the next week will be giving presents to each other. It is kind of like secret Santa in the sense that we do not know who is giving us the present. In Hebrew it is called הגמד והעוך (the dwarf and the giant). Today, tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday we are giving presents [...]
While IE8 has some really neat features, I had a few problems with the beta. My main problem was how it rendered pages. Many pages that worked correctly on IE7 have extra spaces between lines and have messed up tables. Also my other problem was that when ever I tired to open a page from [...]
On Thursday (last week) I went to Bet Hashomer and the Lebanese/Israeli border. Now the question that you are asking yourself now is most likely “Nate, why were you near the Lebanese border?” Well, I’ll get to that later. So, at Bet Hashomer we learned about how the Jews organized groups of guards during the 2nd [...]
On Tuesday(last week) something kind of odd happened during core class. They brought both classes together and told us that we were to do a project about the type of Zionism. What did this project entail you ask. Well we had to make a song, skit, poster, and formal presentation for each type of Zionism. It [...]
On Monday the girls went to a chocolate restaurant (yes a restaurant that serves just chocolate) in Tel-Aviv for Leah’s birthday yesterday and the guys went to a market where people from Sedrot came to sell things to help the economy of Sedrot (the market was also in Tel-Aviv). Here I bought a “I love Sedrot” [...]
I just downloaded the beta of IE 8. Expect my initial reactions in a day or so.
Yesterday (March 4th) I went to an old castle from the time of the Crusaders in Israel. Learning about the period of the crusaders in Israel is interesting because many Palestinians compare the modern state of Israel to the Crusader kingdom. However after a heated debate we concluded that the modern sate is not like [...]
Today I went to Yad Lakashish and Hazon Yeshaya. Yad Lakashish is a place where there are workshops for the elderly and disabled. They work there so they can still feel like they are still contributing members of society. What we did was we walked through the workshop and we talked to people there about [...]
I spent the last Shabbat in Arad. It was really neat. Not only is Arad the hometown of Aubrey (one of the core teachers, but not my core teacher), but it is also in the middle of the desert. It was cool because on Shabbat we walked through the town and learned about how Arad [...]
So one day I log on to facebook and see that I have a new message. It was from my friend Melanie (who is not in Israel), it said something like this, Nate I am bored please tell me a story. So I told her a story, it went something like this…. OK, so once [...]