Teaching at Sapir College

Ever since I started my new teaching job as a music lecturer at Sapir College in the south of Israel, I’d had the itch to drive at the end of the day and watch the sunset—a beautiful desert sunset, with its giant red orb glowing in a light that is particular to the Negev district. As my students were dispersing after the lesson ended, at around five in the afternoon, I hurried to my car. In the autumn the sun sets fast, sinking as if in free fall towards the Mediterranean Sea.