Most of our time is spent here in Be'er Sheva, not on the go, as previous posts might suggest. On a daily basis, Dawn works diligently to solve vexing theoretical mathematical problems, while I do several things such as tutor English, volunteer in the German Studies Center on the BGU campus, and work as a volunteer on promoting a magazine called Young Voices, which is the idea of an 83 year old American-Israeli Jew, Sam Silver, to be written in English by teenagers in Israel. In the German Studies Center, I am helping with the preparations involved in annotating a German-language European edition of Stefan Zweig's Die Welt von Gestern (The World of Yesterday).
Next week, when the semester finally starts (a strike by the faculty last year delayed both the end of the previous academic year and the start of this year), I begin a twice-weekly, three hour per class, Hebrew course on the campus of Ben Gurion University. Dawn and I also had the good fortune to recently find a Bible Study group, largely made up of med school students here at BGU, and all native speakers of English. Slowly but surely, we are coming into our own.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
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