Welcome to Winter!

This morning we got up early just to have the bus come late. Today was also the first rainstorm Israel has had in a year! Luckily, it helped put out the fire in Haifa. Sadly though, a good portion of our tiyul was outside and it was cold (not a good combination). Our tiyul had 2 parts, but the 2nd one got caught short. First we went to Ammunition Hill and learned about the 6-day war. While we were there we saw a movie that wasn’t really a movie but was way cooler. Basically it used a model of Israel and a bunch of lights and narration. But the lights also had animation (aka small car things but they were lights that moved across the model). It was really cool. Then we walked through some of the trenches (quickly though b/c it was raining and we were wet.) After that we went through the museum and then got on the bus to go visit Hebrew University. Sadly however, our bus couldn’t get through the gate we needed to go through to get in so we settled for 15 min. looking out at the view. Then we went back to Tzuba for general studies. It was nice to walk into my room and have heat since I was freezing. We got back with extra time before 1st period started so once I finished lunch I had plenty of time to finish my homework. It didn’t take long to finish my work, so we had a roommate bonding session and watched Harry Potter. Then we had to go to class. All my classes went by pretty quickly (which was weird considering rain usually makes me tired). My econ. teacher found Micro power points that cover all of our material so we go over them in class and barely have to take notes, which is nice. He also e-mailed us the presentations so we will have them for reference. During my free period, I actually relaxed for once. It was wonderful. I watched some shows and did some pre-back to school shopping research (aka I looked at the Nordstrom website for a long while). Sara, Izzy, Mikah and I went to dinner early and then had time to relax in our room until announcements. For once, announcements were done efficiently and quickly. After we lit the candles I went to go do homework and actually finished it! Woohoo!