Here come the classes

It's Monday, and I've officially started classes. So far, I had a Biblical history class today, which was very interesting. We read the story of the Tower of Babel and then discussed the historical implications of the story. Was it true? Is it possible to know or not know? Does it matter if the story was true, or can the moral implications still apply if it's allegorical? Basically, the lecturer used the story as a vehicle to show the complexity of studying ancient history, which is a discipline in which we don't always know if an event happened at all, let alone how it happened and how it impacted the world.

I also started the process of setting up music lessons, including violin, voice and theory. I hope I get to do all three. The lessons are incredibly cheap compared to my lessons in the States (I hope nobody from the Arad conservatory is reading this and decides to raise rates because of my comments)!

I'll also be volunteering at a daycare center in Arad, starting in a week or two. I hope the kids are really cute! It should be a lot of fun: I spend an hour or two with them, and when I get tired of the crying and diapers, I go home. Not a bad deal at all.

Off to my next class, which is entitled "People of the Book." I think it's basically a Jewish literature course.