Chanukah

Monday night we had a pre-Chanukah party with the Ethiopian children that we tutor. My kid gave me some gelt, I gave him more gelt. It was a sold investment on his part. I let him listen to my ipod while we were there. He wanted hip hop. He kept asking for 50 Cent and some other people who I didn't know. Instead, he got Dr. Dre and N.W.A. Thank God he doesn't understand English. His parents would kill me if they knew the vulgarity. They also don't speak English. I realized Monday that I was getting sick.


Tuesday was the first night of Chanukah. It was fun. The international school had a Chanukah party on campus. I played some dreidel, a little shesh besh, ate some sufganyot...the usual Chanukah stuff. Afterwards my friends and I made latkes in my room. Not much else to report. I realized that I was actually sick Tuesday night and decided that I was not going to go to class on Wednesday. Happy Chanukah to me!


I light Chanukah candles in my room. One of my Israeli roommates said it was cute. The guy who I live with was amazed that I knew the prayers and was actually lighting candles. And yes, I did make my menorah out of bottle caps.

We had a second night Chanukah/Birthday party last night. It was fun. We had stir fry for dinner and afterwards introduced Israelis to the art of shotgunning beers. They were really confused. My friends and I also noticed that the cans here are a lot thicker than American cans. Therefore, you can't just stab your key into it. You have to exert effort. Lots of effort. Possibly more effort that it's worth. But nevertheless we did it.
Tonight is the 3rd night. It's been pretty uneventful. I lit candles and made some dinner. I had the most boring class ever this afternoon. My teacher did not stand throughout the entire class. It was so boring and the respect that I had for him went out the window because he sat for 3 hours and did absolutely nothing. It was a serious waste of my time and his. I also went grocery shopping today and had a delicious schwarma. That's about it. Maybe it's the holiday spirit, but for some reason my Hebrew teacher has stopped being a b**** to me. I'm sure everything will be back to normal on Monday.

Speaking of Monday, the Israeli students are striking and blocking entrance to the University. Because of this, the International school is moving classes to the dormitories. They NEED to solve this strike. They're almost at the halfway point for their semester and chances are they're going to have to cancel the semester. My friends and I were talking about this last night. If they cancel our classes, which they said they wouldn't, we're going to demand refunds. We came to get credit. And if they cancel classes, we can't get credit. What a lovely situation.