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Tine<br />
Wesieyan Program<br />
So I got home from cooking class, sorry, not cooking class, my “Lesson in Middle Eastern cuisine,” and<br />
before I could even take off my jacket (was I wearing a jacket?) I was asked<br />
to write something about the Wesleyan Program.<br />
Well, for one thing, I get credit for cooking. Yup, yessir. But hey, our<br />
program is not all fun and schnitzel. Nosiree Bob. It’s jam packed with<br />
intellectual whatnot and<br />
supra-academic thingy jingys. If<br />
w e’re not taking our umpteenth<br />
trip to the house of bread (Bet<br />
Lechem), then we’re probabley<br />
sipping wine and turning up our<br />
noses with some of Jerusalem’s<br />
more prominent intellectuals. We<br />
chill with them sometimes at the<br />
home of Linda Zisquit. Linda is<br />
not a waitress by the way, she’s a<br />
famous poetess.<br />
We’ve got more professors than<br />
some small liberal arts colleges.<br />
We’ve got one who speaks<br />
Spanish with English words, and one who insists that<br />
Lebanon’s the most beautiful country in the world. We’ve got<br />
a few whose names I can’t pronounce, and a few whose<br />
lectures I can’t seem to pay attention to.<br />
Our program is, in essence,<br />
an anthropological, political,<br />
and religious seminar,<br />
designed to teach through<br />
hands-on experience. Boy, we<br />
can hardly keep our hands<br />
off.<br />
Well, I’d love to keep<br />
writing, but I gotta go pack.<br />
Tomorrow our program leaves<br />
on a twelve day study tour of<br />
native practices and leisure<br />
activities in Dahab. Just<br />
kidding. It’s actually more of<br />
an independent study.<br />
M att Levine<br />
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