IJS and Summer Break

Wow! It's hard to believe next week I finish my class! Then I'll have all summer off till about August when my next class starts at IJS. I'll miss my classmates and their encouragement and spurring on, but then there is always hope I'll study with them again in the next couple of years. Right now, my goal is to take a total of 12 IJS courses, finishing up in the spring of 2012 by taking two classes together one time. Since the class I'm taking now is entitled "Jewish Culture and Customs," one of my assignments was to visit a Jewish synagogue. A week and a half ago, my family went to a Jewish Synagogue. It was a very long service -from 9:30 a.m. to 11:45, with a Kiddush (a snack) after that. Since almost the entire service was in Hebrew, any English was a delight to hear. I learned a lot from attending the service.

On the other hand, I'm looking forward to summer break. The ladies are planning to do some sewing. I plan to do a little gardening, most likely do quite a bit of reading, take a couple of trips with my family, and who knows what all else. Daddy and Mommy are going to be gone a couple of weeks this spring/summer, and without parents around Je and I have a total blast. Actually we have fun with them around too, but it just gets better when they are gone.

For us Resurrection Sunday, was like any other Sunday. Today Je bought me a whole bunch of discount candy, which we are going to enjoy eating for the next several weeks. We always try to stretch our candy as long as possible.

A couple weeks ago I got a YouTube channel named joyfulhymns. On it I posted a video of me playing "There is a Redeemer". I've tried to link it, but I haven't had any success. So if you want to see it, try searching on YouTube.

Last Thursday we had a bit of an adventure. Our tub drain has not been draining well, and we've tried all sorts of things to get it to drain better but we haven't had sucess. So Mommy decided to turn the hot water heater up temporarily, then put hot water down the drain. Well the water in the hot water heater got so hot, that I guess it popped the relief valve thing, so hot water started pouring out of the water heater. We caught it quite quickly, so it didn't make too big of a mess. We learned a lessson: Never turn the hot water heater up!!! If you are going to turn it up, turn it up very gradually.