After 5 weeks of language learning by immersion, when you finally get a pause in the action, the question comes to mind, "How in the world did I get up here?"
It's actually been a fantastic climb thus far and we're feeling more and more comfortable in listening to the language, speaking in full sentences, reading pages of text in our homework, and just beginning to write short sentences. These are the 4 basic skills of language learning: listening, speaking, reading, writing. They are usually listed in that order because it's often best to begin mastering them in that order. That's been my experience here thus far and it is paying off!
Tomorrow is Shabbat (Sabbath) and I'll be enjoying a restful day of reading my hebrew texts, reading other things (in English :-), and going for another countryside run. Sunday I'll be heading to Jerusalem for the last time - I hope to visit the Israeli Bible Society, an excavation of the 1st century steps to the temple, and the archaeological dig in the City of David (the original Jerusalem).
More pictures then! Shalom.
P.S.- these goats are called ya'el (יעל) which is also the name of a famous heroine in the book of Judges - I'll let you figure out who :-)
