Ben Hur Cologne

I just saw an ad for Ben Hur cologne - apparently it is supposed to bring back memories of a rose garden. I guess it used to be quite the product - all I can think of is sweaty men at the oars! I guess it is a generation gap thing.

Hate/Love Relationship with Hebrew

I am having a complex relationship with Hebrew. Lately I have been disliking it intensely. I am having a really hard time memorizing the words - I can drill a word into my head and the next day it is as if I have never seen it before! Not only that the whole grammar thing is a problem. I don't think I learned much more than adjectives, verbs, adverbs and nouns in school. So the book refers to "direct object" as if it is the most natural thing in the world to know. The student in the class that learned English as a second language is not having any problem.

Anyhow, today I am loving Hebrew a bit more. I feel like I turned a corner - just in time as I have a midterm on Monday. These days of relief are few as in no time I will be lost and struggling again.

Oh yea, the word at the top of the screen is Shalom - peace (or rather lack of strife)

Halloween Pumpkin

Here it is a picture of a Halloween pumpkin that I did up (with some help from C) for the neighbourhood pumpkin festival. I can't take credit for the photo - a Sun photographer took it. Brilliant how he took it from the angle so that the cross was outlined in the sky.

Work is proceeding - luckily there is a neighbourhood association that I have gotten in contact with - hope to join forces with them to get out into the neighbourhood. My last church didn't have such a thing so it was part of my effort to start at the grass roots level. I didn't get very far!