Was up by 6:30 today, after getting to bed at midnight, and I think that's going to be the pattern from now on. Day began with extreme distress after sitting in on my first partnered learning session in Gemara. Not only is it in Aramaic, a language with no vowels, but they leave out about 40% of the words at random, and abbreviate another 10%. Seriously. Spent an hour trying to decipher 4 lines of text with another guy, and we basically got most of it wrong.
Then had a (Torah) hebrew class, where we got our next 15 verbs and new conjugation pattern and another hour of homework. I have hebrew four times a week. Felt totally buried. Then someone gave me a tip: You don't have to go to every class. Stress possibly reduced from extreme to high levels.
Managed to get the shower to work again today, after some fiddling, so we're nearing a 50% hit rate for hot water showers. Can't ask for more than that.
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