Okay so my memory is failing me about what exactly happened after pesach... I just know that i had my first burger in Israel on Motzei Yom Tov. I also went on a trip with the sem and i don't remember everything we did. I do know that we went to Hertzelia park which is basically a playground for adults. The slides and swings and jungle gym were all huge!! I was really tired that day so if i can recall, i sat under an umbrella and read a book the whole time. I still had fun though. Afterward we went to the beach and sat on the rocks looking out over the water, and had a barbeque. It was really peaceful and nice....
Then the Tuesday after Pesach we started class again. That shabbos I went... somewhere maybe Meisels...
Then we had normal class and then I went to Ramat Beit Shemesh for shabbos to a friends friend who was her boss in NY.
And this is sounding really really boring. granted.
Hmmm... I'll have to go interview my diramates to find out what i've been doing this whole time :} then i'll get back to y'all.
<3 <3 <3
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Pesach!!!!
Okay, so I did my seder at the Simons. It was a huge privilage because this was the first time they had ever had any guests for the seder. It was just me and mindy and we really really enjoyed it. Especially the famous 'Simon Choir'!
First day I ate by Meisels and then that night I did Havdala with the handful of other girls who were only keeping one day.
First day of chol Hamoed I stayed around the dorm and played Shabbos goy for everyone who was keeping 2 days. That night I made a matzah lesagna and then i got called down again to make another one a bit later. I can't rememeber what I did on- o, i do remember.
On thursday a couple of the girls decided to go bike riding in Ganei Yehoshua in Tel Aviv and invited me. I went and we had a lot of fun waiting in line. Unfortunetely the lines being hours long was not condusive to our chol hamoed happiness so instead we played in the park for a bit. Right before we were about to leave I noticed a little girl walking around the packed park crying. So Mindy and I helped her find her parents. It wasn't so hard considering there were at least 800 frum families there... :) It was actually really cool, at one point, from where we were sitting we could see 6 minyanim at one time in different corners of the park. Then we rode the train for about 2 minutes to our bus stop to go back to Yerushalym.
Erev Shabbos I was supposed to go shopping but it rained. (It was raining for four days starting from the second day of pesach.) But then on my way to the bus stop to go to Kiryat Sefer for shabbos I ended up finding what I had been looking for anyways.
I was at my teacher Rabbi Kornblau for shabbos with a friend and we stayed by a detroit family that just made Aliyah. (Ehrinrich- they are Mrs. Kornblau's parents)
Erev Yom Tov Sheni I made Matzah Meal Pancakes at Ariella's (since we can't cook gebrachs in the dorm). I'm actually really in the mood to make more right now.... hmmmm
neways, Last night I ate at my Em Bayit's house. Afterward I went to hear Stallin sing Az Yashir at midnight in Meah Shearim. We got back to the dorm really late. Today I did a meal in the dorm and then chilled out until Yom tov ended. Everyone is trying to convince me to go out and buy pizza or something but I feel very sentimental about that... maybe i'll get a burger... or maybe not. hmmm... what to do?????
okay, hope everyone elses pesach was as great as mine was!
<3 you all!!
First day I ate by Meisels and then that night I did Havdala with the handful of other girls who were only keeping one day.
First day of chol Hamoed I stayed around the dorm and played Shabbos goy for everyone who was keeping 2 days. That night I made a matzah lesagna and then i got called down again to make another one a bit later. I can't rememeber what I did on- o, i do remember.
On thursday a couple of the girls decided to go bike riding in Ganei Yehoshua in Tel Aviv and invited me. I went and we had a lot of fun waiting in line. Unfortunetely the lines being hours long was not condusive to our chol hamoed happiness so instead we played in the park for a bit. Right before we were about to leave I noticed a little girl walking around the packed park crying. So Mindy and I helped her find her parents. It wasn't so hard considering there were at least 800 frum families there... :) It was actually really cool, at one point, from where we were sitting we could see 6 minyanim at one time in different corners of the park. Then we rode the train for about 2 minutes to our bus stop to go back to Yerushalym.
Erev Shabbos I was supposed to go shopping but it rained. (It was raining for four days starting from the second day of pesach.) But then on my way to the bus stop to go to Kiryat Sefer for shabbos I ended up finding what I had been looking for anyways.
I was at my teacher Rabbi Kornblau for shabbos with a friend and we stayed by a detroit family that just made Aliyah. (Ehrinrich- they are Mrs. Kornblau's parents)
Erev Yom Tov Sheni I made Matzah Meal Pancakes at Ariella's (since we can't cook gebrachs in the dorm). I'm actually really in the mood to make more right now.... hmmmm
neways, Last night I ate at my Em Bayit's house. Afterward I went to hear Stallin sing Az Yashir at midnight in Meah Shearim. We got back to the dorm really late. Today I did a meal in the dorm and then chilled out until Yom tov ended. Everyone is trying to convince me to go out and buy pizza or something but I feel very sentimental about that... maybe i'll get a burger... or maybe not. hmmm... what to do?????
okay, hope everyone elses pesach was as great as mine was!
<3 you all!!
Pre Pesach Preparations
Okay, So the week before pesach I stayed in Efrat from Sunday until Wednesday night. Monday was Aviad's birthday so Deja's family and I went to the zoo with the kids to celebrate. Afterward we ate out in Malcha mall and then got back in time for Mindy to come vist me. It was her birthday too so she came to have a party and sleep over. We tried to roast mashmellows in a park but we had a broken lighter and it had just rained so we couldn't use any of the wood to start the fire. Instead we just ate cold mashmellows and candy and froze in the park until we decided we had had enough birthday fun :}
Thursday P'ninim went on a trip to the zoo with our chesed kids as a favor to our chesed families. I didn't end up taking any kids and Mindy ended up running the project so in the end... Mindy took me. I saw a rinacersrasorus!!!! and i got to go on the train!!!!! :D
After the trip I pesach cleaned my room- only took like 3 hours what with moving all the beds, bunk beds, and closets... even though it had been spotless before.
That night we wanted to go sleep on the beach but we were warned about the danger so instead we ended up making camp on the porch. And Mindy and I finally got to roast our mashmellows ;)
Shabbos was an optional in shabbos for whoever wanted. I stayed in and ate shalosh seudos by Ariella's. Motzei Shabbos I went to sleep earlyish... cause Sunday I went back to Efrat for my last day there. At the end of the day I said good bye to the kids and had to run to get back in time for Bedikas Chametz. I did the dining room which should have been cleaned with a toothpick before but no such luck shayne... found croutons and all kinds of crumbs everywhere. Erev Pesach we did Biur Chametz and got ourselves ready for the chag.
Thursday P'ninim went on a trip to the zoo with our chesed kids as a favor to our chesed families. I didn't end up taking any kids and Mindy ended up running the project so in the end... Mindy took me. I saw a rinacersrasorus!!!! and i got to go on the train!!!!! :D
After the trip I pesach cleaned my room- only took like 3 hours what with moving all the beds, bunk beds, and closets... even though it had been spotless before.
That night we wanted to go sleep on the beach but we were warned about the danger so instead we ended up making camp on the porch. And Mindy and I finally got to roast our mashmellows ;)
Shabbos was an optional in shabbos for whoever wanted. I stayed in and ate shalosh seudos by Ariella's. Motzei Shabbos I went to sleep earlyish... cause Sunday I went back to Efrat for my last day there. At the end of the day I said good bye to the kids and had to run to get back in time for Bedikas Chametz. I did the dining room which should have been cleaned with a toothpick before but no such luck shayne... found croutons and all kinds of crumbs everywhere. Erev Pesach we did Biur Chametz and got ourselves ready for the chag.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Pre Pesach Tiyul- ONLY LOYAL P'NINIM STUDENTS ALLOWED!
Wednesday we went on a tiyul with whoever was left here for pesach. In the morning we went to the chocolate factory- De Karina. We got to see how they make the chocolates by hand and then we also were able to make our own chocolates. We made chocolate designs, chocolate cups, chocolate truffles, chocolate faces (OUR faces to be more precise)... "Mindy started it!!" lol
Afterward we drove out to a ropes course place where we could do a huge climbing wall, a cool ropes obsticle course in the air, and archery. Originally, there was also a zip line option but since it was freezing and raining, and since the zip dropes you off in a- Ksiv:Lake Kri:Swamp, :} we couldn't go. Anways, it was a ton of fun anyways. Anyone who is interested in a minnie story that happened here but is not neccessary to write out, can email me and show me how much you love me :) even if its just out of curiosity. ;P
Afterward we went to the Kever of Rebbe Meir Baal HaNes and davened Mincha there.
Then we ate dinner and drove out to the kineret to watch a light/water show. It was beyond beyond cool. And thanx to all the wonderous rain we've been having lately, the kineret-o-meter measurer thing said that the water is above the warning line. Hurray!!!
Then we bonded for 2 and a half hours on the way home.
And then I went to sleep early b/c on Thursday I went to work again. Funny thing, both days I worked so far, there were Chefetz Chashud's on the way to the bus. Tuesday it almost made me miss my bus b/c they blocked off my whole street and I had to go through the Shechuna to get to the Tachana Mercazit. Thursday it was right in front of the Tachana Mercazit so it delayed my bus just enough so I could make it there on time. :) Second one was an insane Hashgacha pratis story... don't know how it was possible that i made it to that bus b/c it was so for sure that i had missed it, but then i didn't :)
and Today, I am chilling... went to Ariella's for a few hours... ate some of her chometz... This shabbos I'm staying in the dorm and going to meals close by. Maybe we'll go to the kotel for shalosh seudot... idk.
neways... Have a Great Shabbos e/o!!!!
<3 me
Afterward we drove out to a ropes course place where we could do a huge climbing wall, a cool ropes obsticle course in the air, and archery. Originally, there was also a zip line option but since it was freezing and raining, and since the zip dropes you off in a- Ksiv:Lake Kri:Swamp, :} we couldn't go. Anways, it was a ton of fun anyways. Anyone who is interested in a minnie story that happened here but is not neccessary to write out, can email me and show me how much you love me :) even if its just out of curiosity. ;P
Afterward we went to the Kever of Rebbe Meir Baal HaNes and davened Mincha there.
Then we ate dinner and drove out to the kineret to watch a light/water show. It was beyond beyond cool. And thanx to all the wonderous rain we've been having lately, the kineret-o-meter measurer thing said that the water is above the warning line. Hurray!!!
Then we bonded for 2 and a half hours on the way home.
And then I went to sleep early b/c on Thursday I went to work again. Funny thing, both days I worked so far, there were Chefetz Chashud's on the way to the bus. Tuesday it almost made me miss my bus b/c they blocked off my whole street and I had to go through the Shechuna to get to the Tachana Mercazit. Thursday it was right in front of the Tachana Mercazit so it delayed my bus just enough so I could make it there on time. :) Second one was an insane Hashgacha pratis story... don't know how it was possible that i made it to that bus b/c it was so for sure that i had missed it, but then i didn't :)
and Today, I am chilling... went to Ariella's for a few hours... ate some of her chometz... This shabbos I'm staying in the dorm and going to meals close by. Maybe we'll go to the kotel for shalosh seudot... idk.
neways... Have a Great Shabbos e/o!!!!
<3 me
Pesach is coming... Spring is in the air... Rain is- RAIN!
Okay, so I guess its would make sense to start with the Mechanchos evening that I mentioned last entry. I went to my Mechanechet's house and we had a lovely pizza dinner and sang songs at the piano. We also did a really cool activity. She gave us tons of jewish magazines, paper, scissors, and glue sticks. We were told to make a collage representing ourselves from pictures and words we found in the magazine. We were all really into it and spent over an hour working on it. Afterward we all presented our collages to the group and explained the things we put on it. My collage was divided in 4... one corner was my past, one was all the things I like or like to do, one was this year in sem (an essential trasition and turning point), and the last was my future. I joined all four of them together with a giant "Miracles" in the center of the paper, because Hashem has made my life the way it is and only with Hashgacha/Miracles does e/t come together the way its supposed to be.
Did I mention that we had a Kibud Av VaEm- Yom Iyun last week? I missed part of it when i was sick but i caught the end.
Thursday was normal.
Friday I stayed in the dorm... or did I?? I can't remember...Oh right- I did. We had a mandatory In-shabbos because it was the last before Pesach vacation and most of the girls went home. Random Interjection- of all the girls who have left for pesach vacation to go home, the only one that hasn't left yet is my roommate- and that's b/c she loves me :) just sayin.
So anyways, Friday night we did in the the dorm with the Simons (my teachers). I was still a shtickle sick so I went to sleep early and missed "the best speaker of the whole year" and that made me sad... but I'm over it. ;) Shabbos day We ate in the dorm also with my Em Bayit and her family. In the afternoon, a friend took me to a beautiful nature path thingy with flowers and grass!!!!! and since the weather was absolutely sensational, I took a nap in the grass :D a much missed commodity. (is that how you spell it?... ) Then for Shalosh Seudos we went to the Meisels and heard Gila Manolson speak about Tznius. Even those of us who weren't already aware of who this woman was, were very impressed. Motzei Shabbos we chilled...
Speaking of chilled... starting Sunday its been absolutely gross out, rainy and freezing and muddy. But thank G-d for the rain... we need it. (and yes, i'm convincing myself of that)
Sunday and Monday we had a Pesach Yom Iyun, which was really inspirational. Monday I went with my Halacha Rebbe to go ask a shaala from Rabbi Ezriel Oroback, the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Orobach. My question was about keeping 1 or 2 days of Yom tov. The Rav Orobach asked a bunch of questions to my Rebbe and he then asked me. Sof Ma`asa, I am keeping one day of yom tov from now on. :) but i have to tell you that i'm really nervous to. I'm afraid its going to feel like being mechalel shabbos if i know that all of my friends are keeping 2 days... we'll see. The older girls who are keeping one day already told me it won't be weird and i'll get used to it fast... I guess i have to trust them. The Rav also gave me a Bracha!! All in all, it was really a special experience for me.
Tuesday I started work in Efrat. I'm helping Deja around the house and with the kids.
Did I mention that we had a Kibud Av VaEm- Yom Iyun last week? I missed part of it when i was sick but i caught the end.
Thursday was normal.
Friday I stayed in the dorm... or did I?? I can't remember...Oh right- I did. We had a mandatory In-shabbos because it was the last before Pesach vacation and most of the girls went home. Random Interjection- of all the girls who have left for pesach vacation to go home, the only one that hasn't left yet is my roommate- and that's b/c she loves me :) just sayin.
So anyways, Friday night we did in the the dorm with the Simons (my teachers). I was still a shtickle sick so I went to sleep early and missed "the best speaker of the whole year" and that made me sad... but I'm over it. ;) Shabbos day We ate in the dorm also with my Em Bayit and her family. In the afternoon, a friend took me to a beautiful nature path thingy with flowers and grass!!!!! and since the weather was absolutely sensational, I took a nap in the grass :D a much missed commodity. (is that how you spell it?... ) Then for Shalosh Seudos we went to the Meisels and heard Gila Manolson speak about Tznius. Even those of us who weren't already aware of who this woman was, were very impressed. Motzei Shabbos we chilled...
Speaking of chilled... starting Sunday its been absolutely gross out, rainy and freezing and muddy. But thank G-d for the rain... we need it. (and yes, i'm convincing myself of that)
Sunday and Monday we had a Pesach Yom Iyun, which was really inspirational. Monday I went with my Halacha Rebbe to go ask a shaala from Rabbi Ezriel Oroback, the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Orobach. My question was about keeping 1 or 2 days of Yom tov. The Rav Orobach asked a bunch of questions to my Rebbe and he then asked me. Sof Ma`asa, I am keeping one day of yom tov from now on. :) but i have to tell you that i'm really nervous to. I'm afraid its going to feel like being mechalel shabbos if i know that all of my friends are keeping 2 days... we'll see. The older girls who are keeping one day already told me it won't be weird and i'll get used to it fast... I guess i have to trust them. The Rav also gave me a Bracha!! All in all, it was really a special experience for me.
Tuesday I started work in Efrat. I'm helping Deja around the house and with the kids.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Bombs, Weddings, and Day to Day
So, as I said in my last post which I wrote as the entire episode was happening, there was a bomb in Jerusalem last week Wednesday. It went off just a block from my school next to a bus that nearly my entire school takes on almost a daily basis, the 74. More than 10 of our girls were either running to get on that bus, missed the bus by seconds, got off the bus on a whim, or were right in the area. With tremendous Hashgachas Hashem, nobody was hurt. Some of the girls saw it, a lot of them were very shaken. At the time, a good friend called me, totally hysterical. She had heard about it as she walked into the building only a minute after the bombing. When she saw that I wasn't in and because the cell phones were down she couldn't reach me on my phone, she was really scared that I had been there. When she finally reached me a few minutes later, she was the first to tell me about the bomb. Thank G-d everybody was saved. Most of the Israellie girls didn't give it much thought... they told us they were used to this. They said that a few years ago this is how it was day to day, week to week. It doesn't phase them anymore. I guess I understand it, I too wasn't as upset by it as I knew I should have been, coming from a higher sensitivity level.
As soon as things looked clear the school instructed all the girls to come back from wherever they were at the time. I was at Ariella Zilberman's place around the block so it wasn't so far for me to travel. At the school, Rabbi Meisels and a few other Rabbeim and teachers were saying Tehillim with the girls. As we came in we joined. Afterward the Rabbanim gave us speeches about tragedies and moving on. About taking in the pain of the klal but not becoming depressed. About acceptance. Mainly they were there for us, giving us chizuk and answering any questions.
The next day I went as planned to Michal Epstein's wedding. Tal Erez and Jonathan picked me up from my school. We met Shmulik and Hadassa, and then continued to the wedding together. The wedding was beautiful, the bride was stunning and shining and brilliant, the guests were happy, the dancing was upbeat, and the food was first class. All in all, i think everyone enjoyed themselves and had an amazing time.
Shabbos I went to Rabbi Kornblau's house. He was having a kiddush for his baby daughter Chana Gittle. Mindy and I went to help out but mostly because we really wanted to take advantage of the unique opportunity to spend shabbos with such a Chashuv family. For that reason we even overcame our slight aversion to buses.
Sunday I took a day off of class to work on college essays. Monday I got sick. Tuesday I was better again :D... G-d loves me!!!! And today I had cleanup duty. ;P
lol, tonight is a mechanchos dinner, that should be fun. More info later. <3 y'all!!
As soon as things looked clear the school instructed all the girls to come back from wherever they were at the time. I was at Ariella Zilberman's place around the block so it wasn't so far for me to travel. At the school, Rabbi Meisels and a few other Rabbeim and teachers were saying Tehillim with the girls. As we came in we joined. Afterward the Rabbanim gave us speeches about tragedies and moving on. About taking in the pain of the klal but not becoming depressed. About acceptance. Mainly they were there for us, giving us chizuk and answering any questions.
The next day I went as planned to Michal Epstein's wedding. Tal Erez and Jonathan picked me up from my school. We met Shmulik and Hadassa, and then continued to the wedding together. The wedding was beautiful, the bride was stunning and shining and brilliant, the guests were happy, the dancing was upbeat, and the food was first class. All in all, i think everyone enjoyed themselves and had an amazing time.
Shabbos I went to Rabbi Kornblau's house. He was having a kiddush for his baby daughter Chana Gittle. Mindy and I went to help out but mostly because we really wanted to take advantage of the unique opportunity to spend shabbos with such a Chashuv family. For that reason we even overcame our slight aversion to buses.
Sunday I took a day off of class to work on college essays. Monday I got sick. Tuesday I was better again :D... G-d loves me!!!! And today I had cleanup duty. ;P
lol, tonight is a mechanchos dinner, that should be fun. More info later. <3 y'all!!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
EEEEK!!
Okay, so a bus just blew up down the block from my school. It's really scary... the school is trying to round everyone up... i'm around the block inside, so my school told me to stay there and not to go out. trying to reach my friends... trying to reach people... nobody is answering phones b/c the lines are flooded. news is vague. more updates coming. more information later.
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