Compared to last weekend's trip to Ramon Crater (pics here), this weekend was pretty boring. Although it was nice to relaxing.
After a hard week of presentations and tests, I had no food left in my fridge and so a few of us made our way down to Horev's SuperSol. We stopped at the pharmacy in the mall and I needed tissues so I bought the best tissues ever...princess ones! They're the travel kind so there are like packages in a pack. It's awesome!
And then started the Movie Hours: Pick a Chick Flick. My friend and I, after being stressed all week, decided that we wanted to watch a movie and so we watched A Walk to Remember. A good sappy movie with Mandy Moore. Friday, I woke up really late and decided that instead of sleeping the day away, I should get up and do something productive. The result: watching Pride and Prejudice...the 5 hour version. The one with Colin Firth. I had never watched any version or read the book and surprisingly (to me) it kept my attention and was interesting. We stopped for lunch and random phone calls in between and by the time we finished it was 7pm. After a dinner of chicken and veggies and my apple crisp as dessert, we watched two more movies: What's up Doc? (with G-pa's favorite actress, Barbra Streisand...right?) and Clue, which was kinda stupid. All of us then decided to actually use our brains before going to sleep. (Although to be fair we did because we had to put the subtitles on because the volume wasn't loud enough so we had to read those) So I ended up reading some Chick-Lit. I finally found the fiction section in the library so I took out a bunch of books.
Thus ended the Movie Day. Saturday, it rained and what better thing is there to do than to watch a movie. Just kidding. My friend and I decided to make chocolate chip cookies. It took longer to find all the ingredients than it took to make the actual cookies. I have the basic ingredients like flour, sugar, and chocolate (of course), but I didn't have the other stuff...mainly an oven. My friend did so we used hers, but we also had to find vanilla (didn't), baking soda (kinda), and more chocolate chips (of course we found those!) along with eggs and measuring cups. The oven, the toaster oven that we used, only fit ten cookies so it took a while to bake. Not wanting to stay on campus Saturday night, a few of us went bowling (בולינג) at the Haifa Mall. I started off okay and by the second game, I was beyond awful with a score of 19. My first game was 33 and my second 63. So I did improve...kinda.
In other news, today I volunteered at the school. The girl I'm working with actually kinda learned her letters so we were somewhat productive. What I don't understand though is why even after three weeks they don't know their letters. What are they doing in school that is preventing them from learning English? The Madricha who runs the volunteering told us that all the younger kids (ie those not in high school) are all below their grade level for English. I'm tired of doing the letters and I'm sure she gets bored of it. We actually went on to words today. But even that is hard because she doesn't know many/any words. Not body parts, only some colors and few other random words. I wonder if the Israeli education system is bad all subjects or just this?
Anyway, my roommates and I have a microwave...this calls for some microwave popcorn and some hot tea to warm me up from my cold showers, but that's a whole other story.
After a hard week of presentations and tests, I had no food left in my fridge and so a few of us made our way down to Horev's SuperSol. We stopped at the pharmacy in the mall and I needed tissues so I bought the best tissues ever...princess ones! They're the travel kind so there are like packages in a pack. It's awesome!
And then started the Movie Hours: Pick a Chick Flick. My friend and I, after being stressed all week, decided that we wanted to watch a movie and so we watched A Walk to Remember. A good sappy movie with Mandy Moore. Friday, I woke up really late and decided that instead of sleeping the day away, I should get up and do something productive. The result: watching Pride and Prejudice...the 5 hour version. The one with Colin Firth. I had never watched any version or read the book and surprisingly (to me) it kept my attention and was interesting. We stopped for lunch and random phone calls in between and by the time we finished it was 7pm. After a dinner of chicken and veggies and my apple crisp as dessert, we watched two more movies: What's up Doc? (with G-pa's favorite actress, Barbra Streisand...right?) and Clue, which was kinda stupid. All of us then decided to actually use our brains before going to sleep. (Although to be fair we did because we had to put the subtitles on because the volume wasn't loud enough so we had to read those) So I ended up reading some Chick-Lit. I finally found the fiction section in the library so I took out a bunch of books.
Thus ended the Movie Day. Saturday, it rained and what better thing is there to do than to watch a movie. Just kidding. My friend and I decided to make chocolate chip cookies. It took longer to find all the ingredients than it took to make the actual cookies. I have the basic ingredients like flour, sugar, and chocolate (of course), but I didn't have the other stuff...mainly an oven. My friend did so we used hers, but we also had to find vanilla (didn't), baking soda (kinda), and more chocolate chips (of course we found those!) along with eggs and measuring cups. The oven, the toaster oven that we used, only fit ten cookies so it took a while to bake. Not wanting to stay on campus Saturday night, a few of us went bowling (בולינג) at the Haifa Mall. I started off okay and by the second game, I was beyond awful with a score of 19. My first game was 33 and my second 63. So I did improve...kinda.
In other news, today I volunteered at the school. The girl I'm working with actually kinda learned her letters so we were somewhat productive. What I don't understand though is why even after three weeks they don't know their letters. What are they doing in school that is preventing them from learning English? The Madricha who runs the volunteering told us that all the younger kids (ie those not in high school) are all below their grade level for English. I'm tired of doing the letters and I'm sure she gets bored of it. We actually went on to words today. But even that is hard because she doesn't know many/any words. Not body parts, only some colors and few other random words. I wonder if the Israeli education system is bad all subjects or just this?
Anyway, my roommates and I have a microwave...this calls for some microwave popcorn and some hot tea to warm me up from my cold showers, but that's a whole other story.
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