I was wait-listed and finally accepted at the last minute,
but by then I had accepted a job with the Finnish Zionist Federation running
the Israel summer programs, so I let go of my place in the program.
Wow! I would have loved to do a program like that one, but they required
you to have a degree in music to get in. It is still very tough to get in, I
think they just accept 12 people per year. You must have been very talented
to have been considered, I have many friends who were unsuccessful in
getting in. Well is starting some sort of music technology program that
will be much bigger and wider in scope, but back then this was all they had.
In Israel, I became an industrial electrician, built factories, that sort
of thing. I also learned a whole lot about polymer chemistry while
working in a factory that makes the glue that holds Israeli cigarettes together...
All sorts of weird stuff.
