I am extremely excited to be finally preparing to leave for Israel! I will be spending a majority of the summer there and am full of emotions about leaving. I am nervous to experience a different culture first hand for an extended period of time but overall I am simply excited for this amazing opportunity and experience. I am looking forward to meeting many new people and for the lab work on cellular signaling and differentiation that I will be doing with Professor Sprinzak at Tel Aviv University. I have already finished packing (finally!) and am eager to get to the airport!
One of the things I am looking forward to greatly is improving my language skills in Hebrew. I grew up speaking some Hebrew as my mom is an immigrant from Israel and speaks occasionally in the house, however It is difficult to become fluent with out using the language often. I think that I will be able to learn quickly and pick up on the dictation slang and ways in which the language is used quite quickly and am hoping that by the end of this amazing opportunity Hebrew will be like second nature
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