The Laughlins

Well, this morning was quite an adventure. We showed up early to campus to find out where our classroom would be. Upon entering the building, we checked the schedule and found out: 1) that Mark and I were placed in different classes and 2) that Mark's registration was "incomplete." We went up to the room for registration, and there was a huge line of students that hadn't registered (on time) at all. We ended up having to wait well into our class time only to find out (after Mark was finally called) that his registration WAS COMPLETE, and it must have been a mis-print. We went to the Hebrew Language Classes room and talked to two different people about being put in the same class. It turns out that even though Mark and I are both at level Aleph (beginner's), there are sub-sections of this level depending on how far along you are. Since Mark has had two years of biblical Hebrew, he is ahead of me (I have had nothing.) In the end, we realized that we really would need to be in different levels. They also discovered (by informally re-testing us) that Mark should really be placed in Aleph 7 instead of Aleph 8. I was told to go to Aleph 4. I got to class (late, of course) and very quickly realized that this class was way ahead of me. By the break time, I was completely overwhelmed and went back upstairs to the Hebrew Language Classes room and asked them to put me in Aleph 3. They wrote me a note, and I returned to the Aleph 3 class after break. This class was MUCH BETTER. I definitely felt like I could handle 3, so I am glad that I made the switch. In addition, Mark and I both happen to have friends from TMC in our classes! I am in Aleph 3 with Josh Clutterham (more of a friend of a friend at this point - but we will get to know each other better), and Mark is with Kristy Briggs, one of my good friends from the English department at TMC. I was very excited that she was here (even though she will only be here for a month). I am trying to convince her to just stay at Hebrew U and do her MA there, since she wants to do languages anyways. All in all, we ended up in the right place, and it was fun to have people that we know in both of our classes as well. Also, we are planning to have a little get together with Seth, Kristy, and Josh on Thursday night. That should be fun. Well, my time on the Internet will be a bit more brief from now on. We got a wireless router today, and it took me a while to set everything up and reconfigure it, so that it would work. All of that to say, I still need to get to my homework! There will probably be less pictures for a while too, since we are not really traveling around now, but I will try to take some on Thursday!