Summer Hebrew Photo Journal

This page is to give those of you who are not lucky enough to be taking Hebrew, in summer school, in New Jersey, a taste of what life has been like this summer. Go ahead, be jealous!

Our daily routine starts out with either walking to school or, if the humidity requires, early AM studying at Starbucks...

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Nick, early morning studying at Starbucks

Our daily ritual of crossing the street from Starbucks back to the car,  legally

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After the 7-8:30AM studying, it is time to drive to school and go to class...

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Walking to class

 

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The quad (and chapel) in summer

 

 

"Class" consists of precept first, 8:45AM to 10AM. 

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Kenneth, our fearless preceptor

 

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The best Hebrew precept

 

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Trevor, studying before a big quiz..."So, you are in a soap factory..."

10 -10:45AM is chapel on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and break time Tuesday and Thursday

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Relaxing at break

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Erin, back long enough to throw the football at break

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Mark and Carolyn playing 3 Flies Up

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Overall, a nice picture

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Fun with flashcards

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Joe and KC

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Kenneth, looking cool

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Just so there is evidence that I am actually here...

After break is over, we return to class promptly at 10:45 to begin the lecture portion of our day

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Our normal seats in Hebrew

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Joe, teaching us Hebrew...Ya Ra

Our lectures are all in power point, so that we can review them just for fun on Friday and Saturday nights.

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A typical power point lecture

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Another power point lecture

After class, sometimes we go back to precept. This day we talked Kenneth into letting us sit outside...

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Precept on the quad

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On the steps of Stuart

After class is over for the day we make our way to the caf for lunch at 12:15group_caf.jpg (66182 bytes)

Waiting for lunch...

Sometimes, there is free PB&J in the caf

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Nick at the Bread Bar

 

In the afternoons we typically study at Starbucks again, but sometimes we make a run for the Borders and study there...

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Trevor and "The New System"at Borders

Last Friday, after class, we decided to make a different kind of run for the Border

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Casey, Trevor and me at On the Border for lunch and to visit our friend Margie who works there

Each night, after we are done with dinner and cleaning up, we study Hebrew some more. These are some nice self-timer shots that we took. Yes, we are geeks.

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Our nightly study time

What is perhaps more pathetic is that we continued to take not one, not two, but many self-timer photos

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Fun with Hebrew

It is so great when it all starts to make sense.

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Friday afternoons the Greeks and the Hebrews get out all that summer language aggression on the Ultimate Frisbee field.

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The cheering section

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The Hebrews

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Keeva

Ultimate Frisbee can be dangerous...

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Keith and his cast, after Nick took him out