quick update

Sorry for not writing in 2 weeks, here is the update of what happened. First, last week I was ill with a stomach virus. It was horrible... I ate nothing but bread and drank water for a week straight. It was horrible. On the other hand, while I was at home recuperating I watched Shahar Peer in the Australian Open. She is the Israeli player who made it to the quarter finals and lost in a very very tight game to Serena Williams, who is a scary looking woman.

Let me mention something about Israeli's in international sports: there are very very few of them, so when they do anything remotely exciting the entire country becomes engrossed. For example, when what's his name one the first ever Israeli Gold medal for wind surfing, he was treated like a hero when he came back. FOR WIND SURFING. So this Peer girl has taken over the Israeli news for a week straight, making it further than any Israel before in a major tennis match. They were even talking about her games in my Econ classes...

Then, last night, the kids from my Hebrew class went out to a bar to celebrate ending our class. The reason for the celebration is that many of the kids in my mandatory Hebrew class have been taking the classes for a year and half or more. I have to take this one final class, at the highest level, because I never did the Israeli version of the SAT, so I need to take the class and pass the final to get proficiency. On the other hand, some of the others in my class have started a the lowest of six levels and had Hebrew classes every single semester for the last 3 years!!!

2 weeks till my first final, wish me luck.