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We've been 4 in our apartment for not even a week, currently, so we're still re-adjusting, but having roommate #3 (excluding myself, of course- she's #4, if I'm counting us all) is going well. I keep getting surprised to find someone else up and around in the morning at times when neither of the other roommates are generally up (unless they can't sleep). Before, most mornings I was quite on my own from when I got up until when I left for school, unless I was having a late morning at home. Still, she and I were pretty good pals, mechina year, and haven't seen anywhere near as much of each other since, so having a chance to reconnect in a serious way is something I've been looking forward to.
She and I tried out learning together for Talmud, since my chevrusa from last semester had to drop the class in order to finish up a bunch of other work (it's his last semester of rabbinical school and he's done with his Talmud requirement). It wasn't bad, especially considering that she was horridly jetlagged and hadn't slept, but she decided that the class was too disorganized for her taste (and it is pretty random, I must admit, and my teacher is not a particularly dynamic lecturer or teacher- he is brilliant, but a master of pedagogy he's not), and so she moved down a level. I was briefly pretty nervous about being stuck learning on my own, but I told a friend in the class over shabbos, and his reaction was "ok, you can learn with my chevrusa and me", which is what I did today, and it went pretty well. So I should be alright with that, at least. We'll see what happens in halakha tomorrow, since my chevruta from last semester is not at Schechter this semester. We'll also have a different teacher, so it should be a different experience. Given my very mixed feelings about it last semester, this should be an interesting change- this teacher has a Very different approach to halakha than our last one did, and I have no idea of how he's going to teach the class.
Speaking of learning, H and I are going to start doing some learning together tomorrow evening- the current plan is to make and eat dinner together, then do some gemara. I'm a little bit intimidated, it's been a while since I've been the one without as much background or text skills, but I'm also looking forward to it.
Tomorrow morning my friend whom I've been teaching to read Torah is doing so for the first time. The problem is that I have class at 8:30, which means that I can't really get to hear him and get to school on time. I am finding this rather hard, as I don't really know what to do, since I want to be there for him, and because he's also leaving Israel very shortly, heading back to Germany. Perhaps I can make it for long enough to hear him, and then run out and catch a bus towards school, or maybe just splurge and take a cab, which might make things actually sort of possible.
She and I tried out learning together for Talmud, since my chevrusa from last semester had to drop the class in order to finish up a bunch of other work (it's his last semester of rabbinical school and he's done with his Talmud requirement). It wasn't bad, especially considering that she was horridly jetlagged and hadn't slept, but she decided that the class was too disorganized for her taste (and it is pretty random, I must admit, and my teacher is not a particularly dynamic lecturer or teacher- he is brilliant, but a master of pedagogy he's not), and so she moved down a level. I was briefly pretty nervous about being stuck learning on my own, but I told a friend in the class over shabbos, and his reaction was "ok, you can learn with my chevrusa and me", which is what I did today, and it went pretty well. So I should be alright with that, at least. We'll see what happens in halakha tomorrow, since my chevruta from last semester is not at Schechter this semester. We'll also have a different teacher, so it should be a different experience. Given my very mixed feelings about it last semester, this should be an interesting change- this teacher has a Very different approach to halakha than our last one did, and I have no idea of how he's going to teach the class.
Speaking of learning, H and I are going to start doing some learning together tomorrow evening- the current plan is to make and eat dinner together, then do some gemara. I'm a little bit intimidated, it's been a while since I've been the one without as much background or text skills, but I'm also looking forward to it.
Tomorrow morning my friend whom I've been teaching to read Torah is doing so for the first time. The problem is that I have class at 8:30, which means that I can't really get to hear him and get to school on time. I am finding this rather hard, as I don't really know what to do, since I want to be there for him, and because he's also leaving Israel very shortly, heading back to Germany. Perhaps I can make it for long enough to hear him, and then run out and catch a bus towards school, or maybe just splurge and take a cab, which might make things actually sort of possible.