On Sunday, we left home before sunrise in order to get to an appointment for David at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa at 9:15. The appointment was with an ophthalmologist. After that, we headed down to Tel Aviv, where David had an appointment at 1:00 with the dentist. After returning home to Tsfat, I did my weekly shopping at ShuferSal, our favorite supermarket in town.
Monday through Friday, it was one of the busiest weeks I've had in a long time with Berlitz. Lessons are measured in units, each of which is 40 minutes with a 5-minute break. Last week, I talked a total of 39 units, which is nearly 30 hours of actual teaching.
The variety of countries represented is also quite interesting. For example, on Tuesday I taught a student in Slovenia (formerly part of Yugoslavia -- she lives only a few hundred meters from Austria!) in the morning. In the afternoon, I taught a student in Norway. Then, in the evening, I had a student in France, followed by a class with 2 students, one in Germany and the other in Spain. I ended the evening teaching another French student.
Another interesting example is Friday. I only had 3 students, but all of them currently live in different countries from where they were born. The first was a Vietnamese woman who now lives in France. The second was a Czech student who now lives in Slovakia (well, actually the two countries were no doubt one, Czechoslovakia, when she was born!). The third student was a Belgian guy (from the French-speaking part of Belgium) who now lives in Luxembourg.
Besides all of this work, I also spent some time the past week preparing for the end of the current term at my other job, University of the People, and I wrote some Hebrew lyrics for a song that a good friend of mine is planning to record in the States.
So, it was a busy week but quite productive, I think. The coming week will also be busy, at least at Berlitz.
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