Last Classes :(

Today was our last day of classes. In Hebrew we got our Newspaper we wrote along with a sweet letter from Judy. Seeing as today was our party day in Hebrew class, she brought cookies. But she told us that we had one final test to pass her class, she wanted to see if we had internalized Hebrew. The test went as follows, put your hand in the cookie container with your eyes closed, keeping your eyes closed figure out what letter the cookie is (they were Hebrew letters), once Judy has said you were correct, eat the cookie, there by internalizing it into your stomach. As if Judy saying we still had one final test didn’t scare us enough she then told us we had all failed our tests. Next thing we knew we were being handed our original Hebrew placement tests we took at the beginning of the trip. It was amazing to look at the test and think that in 4 months we were able to learn everything on the test. Then Judy gave us back our real finals (I got a 100%). Then we read over the newspaper, ate some cookies, and danced and sang our favorite songs we had learned in Hebrew. We started Jewish History off with a presentation on civil marriage in Israel and one on Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut. Then Ariella passed around pieces of paper that all had different pictures from various important tiyulim we have taken this semester. We passed them around the room and everyone wrote memories or something they had learned that day. We then decided to finish the activity outside, sitting on the grass. Picture by picture we went around discussing what we had learned from each tiyul. I forgot how much we have really done and been able to learn this semester. After we finished the activity we went around in a circle and talked about how Jewish History has affected our lives within the last 4 months. For the first time I really realized how much I have learned and been able to experience on this trip and how amazing everything we have done is. After Jewish History we proceeded with our final general studies classes. It was sad being in our classrooms for the last time. I brought my camera with me to classes, making sure that I would have pictures of each of my teachers and classes. After dinner, we had announcements as usual and then the winners of superlatives were announced and we took pictures of them for the yearbook (each category had 2 winners so that everyone would win one- I won most likely to be on Broadway). Then we all went back to our rooms to study for our big Jewish History final that is tomorrow morning! So now I am going to go continue studying so that I don’t fail