Left or Right?

I spent most of my day today studying Hebrew. I've got a hefty assignment due on Wednesday, part of which includes reading and highlighting an entire grammar syntax book.

There isn't much fun in reading this book. Though there are occasionally nuggets of interest.

One of those occurs when it comes to giving directions in Hebrew. Though there are words for "North, South, East and West" in the Hebrew language, they are not used when giving someone directions. Instead, it is assumed someone is facing East, and you give them directions based on that.

Thus, to tell someone they need to travel North for 15 miles, you would instruct them to go left for fifteen miles.

South would be to the right, and West requires someone to turn around.

There is an interesting nugget from a Hebrew grammar syntax book for you.

What a long day it has been.