Sunday: Yay last day of Ulpan!!!! That was a relieving feeling. I also had my Jerusalem class final, which actually went pretty well. I knew a lot more than I thought I did. It went pretty well. The rest of the day I basically just hung out until about 11 pm. I took the occasional nap but nothing too spectacular. At 11 I went to a bar to watch the Bears game. Boy was that a mistake to stay for the whole game and not get to bed until 3 am with my ulpan final at 10. I still am very happy with the beer selection at that one bar and the quality of fries, both of which very good.
Monday: Woke up at 7 to go to tefillah. Breakfast. Ulpan final at 10. Not terrible, for the essay section, I actually filled up all of the lines, which they said if done, the teachers would grade the mistakes much easier. After that I then actually teared up a little bit because it was one of the happiest moments knowing that minimester was now over. It was a very hard and intensive 3 weeks, and reminded me very much of the place I loved leaving: high school. Today was filled with naps until dinner at base which was questionable at best as usual. Afterwards we had group bonding programs. For the Yerucham track we were doing a scavenger hunt where we had to run around the main parts of Jerusalem and do some borderline illegal things as well as just fun stuff. My personal participation was having a little kid sit on my shoulders, get scraps from a nice restaurant, wearing woman’s cloths, doing the Macarena on Ben Yehuda, teaching random strangers a song, and other weird things. Afterwards I went to get delicious falafel and then hung out at base.
Tuesday: Today was AMAZING!!!! I got to sleep in til about 7:45 because teffilah was late today due to nobody having classes. We then went to this amazing waterpark and was there until about 3:30. I did have one question regarding the water park, I thought there was a water shortage in Israel. After that, we went to be part of the studio audience for the Israeli version of “The Voice”. For those who don’t know what it is, it is just another vocal performance type show. It was AWESOME!!!!! Due to the fact that they pre-screen prior the television performances, they singers were all really good. It did however run really late because it wasn’t live, so they did random retakes of different parts of the show. We then got back to base at 10 pm to have dinner, and then have our first semester orientation just to find out logistics regarding the semester.
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