MY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!

Technically yesterday was my first day of school, but the only class I had was something that is supposed to go along with my internship and its pretty silly. We learned that you should get to know the people you work with and understand the expectations of your boss. You should also know practical things like where you computer is... real insider stuff. Maybe when I'm feeling generous I'll share some more tips.. maybe. Anyway- even though the class is a little ridiculous, I'm really excited about my internship. It's at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace (http://truman.huji.ac.il/about.asp) and is with Professor Ruth Roded who heads the Institute's division on "The Gendered Other: Muslims and Jews in the Middle East". She is doing a film project, workshops and a research project titled, "Muslim Women Transformed: Disseminating Islamic Gender Messages through Modern Perceptions of the Prophet Muhammad's Life." I think I'm going to learn a lot, to say the least. I'm really excited. 

Then today I had Hebrew, which I really like. I still feel like I am writing in code or something, so that's fun. I also had Psychology and Religion which I am dropping. It was the most ridiculous class- it only focuses on Judiasm and on psychoanalysis, and our first homework assignment was to get in groups and talk about how religion and psychology are important in our lives- I'm not really doing the ridiculousness of this class justice, but we had to draw a picture about what we see as the relationship between psychology and religion- I think this is an interesting subject and I'm sure there is good literature on it, but COME ON (I think I'm just going to get the reading list and go it alone). It's the type of class where you study yourself... and learn how to look at the world in new ways (by looking at yourself?). Anyway- needless to say everyone here was quite enamored by it and couldn't understand why I would rather take Perspectives on Islam. Oh well. 

The other class I had today was Archaeology. It seems so cool. We go on a field trip about every day. And the content is really cool- I mean it's Jerusalem, so... Archaeology is just like a fun puzzle. I'm really excited to try it out. 

Tomorrow is Peace Building and Perspectives on Islam. Hopefully I will have it all figured out by then. 

Oh- also today I found out we are moving in the 7th!! Yay!