Into the crossfire, without a tactic

Today was yet another good day. It began with me meeting up Jeanine at the subway station and we went into town to roam the streets for some new and springy clothes for me.
Jeanine found me a really sweet tie, one of the smaller and narrower ones and I fell for it instantly. I also found a pair of pants and the kind of converse I’ve been looking for.
After that we went to school and finally we got to see Dr. Moshe again.

I don’t know what took him two months to get here, maybe because he walked from Israel or just don’t like us. Nah, that’s just a mean exaggeration of the truth. I was really irritated and almost didn’t want to face him again and I really thought he’d act as if nothing happened.
We’ve had built up a fairly big load of questions during these two months of his absence without getting any answers and with the exams and application deadlines coming up rather fast. The atmosphere in the class was pretty much radiating a fat “whatever” before he entered the room.
It’s actually amazing how he turned it all around in a couple of minutes. If that goes for all of us I can not say for sure but for me, yes, I felt very satisfied with the way he handles things.

The following hour was filled with questions regarding everything from applications to exams – like an intense fight between two Spitfire fighters firing their double Hispano 20mm cannons loaded with questions and answers.

The remaining time of the course has been as a big black hole – unscheduled and unplanned. That was also straightened out – resulting in a well planned schedule and more school hours. Dr. Moshe offered us to fill the gap between the 6th of May (the original end of the course) and the 26th of May (the day of the final entrance exams) with additional lessons and repetition.

In the break we went for some food and meanwhile Dr. Moshe handed in the application forms and the 300EUR fee for the entrance exams. We also got a HUGE booklet with old entrance exams, some of them even unpublished from the universities (regarding the entrance exams 2009 if you’d believe Dr.Moshe).
The upcoming weeks are going to be dedicated to physics and I really enjoy it – which differs a lot from high school where physics were totally out. It might have to do with the fact that back then we had 13 different substitute teachers in one year and the lack of motivation – it’s AMAZING what motivation can do to you, two years ago I would totally reject everything that even slightly reminded of physics.

Yet another surprise was that the applications were not needed to have attached documents such as CV, medical status, grades and financial insurance which some of us spent a lot time to fix in time. It seems that we weren’t supposed to send that until after we got accepted to the university.
Dr. Moshe also revealed the fact that the upcoming two weeks are going to hold three course exams, one written and two oral. At the same time he raised the bar quickly handing out an unprepared presentation about the kidneys to Niyat.
I could tell that he was very impressed by the way Niyat conducted the presentation and totally NAILED the questions afterwards. She really did great and it was obvious that Dr. Moshe didn’t think that we’d stepped it up as good as we have since he continued the physics lesson with a big smile on his face.
The oral exams held this and next Friday is going to be a lot different from the ones that we’ve had so far. This time we’re not allowed to prepare anything and we’re going to be tossed right into the crossfire – like landing the shore of Normandie without a tactic.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
- Sun Tzu

I’m looking forward to Normandie...