Workshop
So, for the past 3 months or so I've been on this thing called Workshop, in case you haven't heard. As I haven't posted since I left for the program, let me start with some technical info. For starters, if you want to know what I've been doing outside of the program your best bet is to check out my facebook photo albums - many things both outside and inside the program are at least referenced there.
As far as the program goes, my schedule looks roughly like this:
Sunday - Morning Ivrit, afternoon Seminar, evening Ha'ashara.
Monday - Morning Hadracha, afternoon and evening Yom Kvutza.
Tuesday - Morning and half of afternoon Seminar, other half Chavura planning time, evening Chavura.
Wednesday - Morning Avoda, afternoon Ivrit.
Thursday - Morning and early afternoon Siyur, rest of afternoon Educational Processing.
Ok then, now for a short description of them all:
Ivrit - Hebrew class, taught by a Hanoar Haovednik (Shmulik) who was also one of the gun-toting Israelis from my MBI (if that last sentence made no sense, don't worry about it.)
Seminar - Classes on Jewish History, taught by members of the Tnuat Bogrim.
Hadracha - leadership training class, part practical psychology/group dynamics, part talking about dugma (setting an example) and the impact a leader can have and how he should act because of this. Probably my favorite thing about the program.
Yom Kvutza - Time for our Madrichim to run activities for us based on what they see us needing.
Avoda - Work. Either on the kibbutz where we live (Netiv Halamed Hei) or with Shulchan le Shulchan (Table to Table). Shulchan le Shulchan is an organization which harvests fruits and vegetables that farmers either don't want because they are blemished or in some other way perfectly good to eat but unsellable, or because they don't have the manpower to harvest it.
Chavura - educational activities we plan and run for ourselves about various topics from Jewish History.
Siyur - trips to different places around Israel.
Processing - weekly sikkum (summing up)
More on Workshop... soon hopefully. Not now though. But soon.
As far as the program goes, my schedule looks roughly like this:
Sunday - Morning Ivrit, afternoon Seminar, evening Ha'ashara.
Monday - Morning Hadracha, afternoon and evening Yom Kvutza.
Tuesday - Morning and half of afternoon Seminar, other half Chavura planning time, evening Chavura.
Wednesday - Morning Avoda, afternoon Ivrit.
Thursday - Morning and early afternoon Siyur, rest of afternoon Educational Processing.
Ok then, now for a short description of them all:
Ivrit - Hebrew class, taught by a Hanoar Haovednik (Shmulik) who was also one of the gun-toting Israelis from my MBI (if that last sentence made no sense, don't worry about it.)
Seminar - Classes on Jewish History, taught by members of the Tnuat Bogrim.
Hadracha - leadership training class, part practical psychology/group dynamics, part talking about dugma (setting an example) and the impact a leader can have and how he should act because of this. Probably my favorite thing about the program.
Yom Kvutza - Time for our Madrichim to run activities for us based on what they see us needing.
Avoda - Work. Either on the kibbutz where we live (Netiv Halamed Hei) or with Shulchan le Shulchan (Table to Table). Shulchan le Shulchan is an organization which harvests fruits and vegetables that farmers either don't want because they are blemished or in some other way perfectly good to eat but unsellable, or because they don't have the manpower to harvest it.
Chavura - educational activities we plan and run for ourselves about various topics from Jewish History.
Siyur - trips to different places around Israel.
Processing - weekly sikkum (summing up)
More on Workshop... soon hopefully. Not now though. But soon.
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