My Scholarship from the Israeli Governement

OK, so I mentioned in my first post, Why I Made Aliyah, that I discovered a scholarship specifically for new immigrants.  Basically it works like this.  The government pays up to 120 credits of any degree.  Once you've made your choice on where you want to study, have done all of the necessary acceptance requirements for your institution of choice, and have signed up for classes, you're going to take proof of all that information to the local Jewish Agency to the offices of the Israeli Student Organization (Minhal HaStudentim) and they will give you an affidavit for the credits you're taking that semester in which you will in turn give to the finance offices of your school.  It's that easy, really.

Here's the catch, you in turn must complete 120 hours of volunteer work.  This volunteer work begins once you've earned 80 credits towards your degree.  There are tons of different places to complete this volunteer work.  Basically, though, it's going to be volunteering with seniors or with kids, from there the options branch out, for example, kids with cancer, old people's home, after school programs, senior bingo night, etc.  Also, you don't have to finish all of your hours at the same place, you can volunteer at multiple places.

Another thing, you need to have relatively good grades, actually average grades, lets say.  In Israel, they don't use the 4.0 system like in the States (come to think of it, I doubt anywhere else in the world uses that system, not to mention Fahrenheit, feet, miles, etc) they use the "100 system" (I don't even know if that's the right name for it), but basically as long as your average is above 65 (which is like a D+), you're in the clear.  Also, if you fail a class, when you retake it, you pay for it the second time around.