yet another once a year post... fun, right?

I can't remember the last time that I did this, but here it is - i'm back on my blog. I would say, "i'm back to blogging", but i'm not really sure that that's so true - this will probably only be a one time thing, and i won't return to blogging for another year - like when i'm in israel, i'll randomly think of it, and decide to enter a new post. the only problem will be that i won't be able to remember what email i used for this - i had to get a google account, and i made the email address weird, so i can never remember it. Actually, I probably WILL blog in israel, it just won't be here - it'll be on my seminary, TOMER DEVORAH (YAY!!!!!!!!!!!)'s blog. They have one, and they want it to be student run. When I was interviewing, Rabbi Rosenstein asked me some stuff (shock!), adn i told him about newspaper (that i run my school newspaper, adn have been co-editor in chief since renah, shoshana and i started it in 9th grade, and now i am the editor in chief and i boss around two little 10th graders. (i didn't say it quite like that, though... ). so he asked if i'd be interested in running the student blog, and i said sure! so i'll probably end up doing that. But moving on, let me tell you whats going on in my life...

• Today we had group therapy with mrs minkin. we told her what we didn't like about the school, she promised to keep it a secret, and then she went into a meeting with mrs sheehan.... hmmm.... (jk, she actually didn't go have a meeting.) int the middle of talking about the school, she snuck in a question about peer pressure. it was pretty funny. i dont' think she was impressed when she gave "helping a boarder go home when the school said not to" as an example, and we all announced, with no hesitation, that we would do it.
  
• i'm going to TOMER DEVORAH!!!!!! it's in ramot, it's really cool, and the rabbis are awesome! i'm so excited!!!!
• i'm going to college at binghamton, rutgers, stern, or somewhere i reapply next year from israel. yup, it sux.
• i'm never the first one to do things. i think that i am, and i'm all excited, only to realize that, yup, once again, my siblings have done it first, and people are so busy with theirs that they don't notice mine. and also, if they could do it, whats so amazing about me doing it?
  (sorry that didn't make sense. i tried, but i don't know how to explain it without telling what the actual problem is, and it's something that's been bothering me lately. But it's ok, i might get over it... when i'm 40.... )

OK, i'm done talking about my life. i'm really just not in the mood. sooo.... does anyone actually ever read this? please just leave a comment saying "yes" and the date if you do. and if you're willing to do more talking than that.... hows your life going?
see y'all next time....

Awesome movie trailer

Now this is one i wanna see! it's called "A Very Long Summer."

What's going on

I decided that even though no one (not even Esty) checks this blog anymore, I'm going to post here (at least once) about what's going on in my life. Here goes nothing!!

• I'm fasting right now. It's the 17th of Tamuz, and I don't exactly feel wonderful. Though truthfully, it's not as bad as usual. I can still stand up without my vision swimming - I think. I might not be able to after having sat at the computer for so long.
• The Sharon fireworks are tonight, right after the fast is over. Because of this, I may not be able to go - which would be very very very sad.
  
• The 4th of July is TOMORROW!! Yay!!! I still don't know what I'm doing for it.
• I only have one day off from work this summer - and it's tomorrow. If you're not understanding the problem, see above.
• I'm working at a summer camp. Thank G-d I'm in the religious unit, Kehilla. I have a bunk of girls who are going into second grade. They are very cute.
• Last week, I had 4 kids. This week, I have 8. My co-counselor has a medical problem this week, though. She spent all of yesterday in the hospital, and today mostly just sitting.
  
• I have another counselor helping me because of this. Today, I was painfully hungry all day. My regular other counselor was eating ALL DAY because of her medical stuff, and the other counselor ate during lunch (and drank all day) because she faints if she doesn't. Plus, one of my kids refuses to eat her lunch, so i had to sit there, watching her, to make sure that she ate the amount that i told her to. (Meaning that I counted out 10 carrots, 6 spoons of yogurt, etc., etc.....)
• I really want to get my driver's license, but I can't yet because I haven't done driving hours with the instructor. (and observing hours. Yuck.)
• Sophie is moving into my house for the summer, so that she can work at this same camp as me, as a lifeguard. Ok, ok, by "moving in" I mean that she'll be staying at my house (in my room, on an air mattress which covers my entire floor) like two or three nights a week. It's a lot of fun.
• My big bro (and a bunch of his friends) are also working at this camp. In fact, the staff of Kehilla is largely made up of his classmates (if you can call them that, i dunno what they're called once they all graduate) and friends. It leaves me slightly left out... all the time.
  
• An awesome part of this camp - they give out YUMMY challah and ice cream every friday. YAY! On the other hand, i have to come up with a skit/song for the kids to do each friday, at oneg. And each week has a specific theme, which the skit/song is supposed to have to do with. This week, with all thats going on with my fellow counselors, guess who making bunk 74's oneg fell to? ME! In the end, though, it's not that bad, because we're doing a combined oneg with another bunk, so i just co-wrote it with them. (I got very lucky, no? The bunk i'm doing it with - one of their counselors is going to be away the rest of the week, so Deborah is glad to have me to work on the oneg with her. At least, I think that she is!)
  
• I can't even remember what else is going on!
  

Ok, I think that does it. If and when I shall return to posting on this blog remains to be seen. You'll just have to wait and see what I feel like!

in honor of esty's dream

Hi everyone!
This post is in honor of the dream esty had... about me posting on my blog! I should be in bed right now, getting a good night sleep before the trial, but hey, do I ever? Why start now?
So our first trial is tomorrow - defense - and I'm a lawyer for the first time. I'm pretty freaked out. There's also some other stuff going on, but... well, i wanna go to bed. G'nite!!!

Chappy Chanukah!

Sorry it's been so long since I posted anything. Here's a little of whats been going on:

• Mock trial - I'm a lawyer. The trial is on January 17th, and I'm PRETTY FREAKED OUT!! And I have nothing to wear to it!!
• Production - I have a small part as a ten-year-old boy. Strangely enough, it's a lot of fun, and even stranger, at least three people have told me that I'm good at it. I'm not really sure that that's such a compliment....
• I'm in both high school dances.
• I'm in charge of the jr. high dance with shifra i. and maybe shiffy.
• My friend Yael's bat mitzvah was last week
• The chanukah chagigah is on wednedday. Not only do we not have enough rides for all the sharonites to get there and back, Shiffy and I don't have our skit done! And we have to live up to the one we did last year with Shifra i and sarah.... no way thats happening. We barely have any ideas...!!!
• My MP3 player came with 20 demo songs and there seems to be NO WAY to get rid of them.
• My identical twin sister (for those of you who don't know her, i'll try and put up a pic of us soon) and i are having a sleepover - meaning that i'm gonna sleep on the extra bed in her room cuz that way we can talk till 3 in the morning.
• i know this is random but... i can finally do a split!
• My big sis is moving to the holy land for 6 months, starting on Jan. 1st!!!!
• I'm learning to drive!!!!! I havn' hit anything, not even the curb!!!
  

i think that's almost everything that's been going on. Think that's enough yet?
A Chappy Chanukah to all!!!

home and driving!

So, I have now returned from shabbat at ST's house. It was fun.... other than the power outs and being whacked on the head with pillows and not being allowed to go to sleep at a reasonable hour (she kept me up until 10:30 on a friday night! i try to go to bed at like 9.... it's the only night that i actually go to bed!) and being forced to walk around a ton. Seriously, i did have a great time.
I DROVE!!!!!! My dad took me to this industrial park, with a ton of parking lots and some roads between them, and i drove around, first in a big empty one with no islands or anything, and then on a street going 25 mph, and then into a parking lot where there were lots of islands and things to avoid. We drove around for about 2h!!! I had a really great time! I didn't crash, I only almost took the mirror off once, and i only scraped the curb once! (actually i'm not sure if i actually hit the curb or not.) It was sooooo much fun, and I can't wait to practice next week!!!!! YAY!!!

Going away for Shabbat! And REALLY exciting news!!!

Aren't you all proud of me? I never go ANYWHERE!!! And now, I finally have been talked into going somewhere - my little sister's house!!!!! I don't know her family that well, so I'm a little nervous, but I'm very very excited! I'm really going to go to her house! And see her room for the first time! YAY!

For those of you wondering, there is nothing weird about this.... it's just you going crazy.

Okay okay, I can't leave you all like this. (I probably shouldn't even bother with this, my lil sis is one of the only ppl who even reads my blog, so this is all pointless anyway!
So the lil sis I was talking about was not Aviva, but ST of coarse!!!!! DUH!!!! I'm going to PROVIDENCE for Shabbat.

And want to know the most exciting news of all??????
I GOT MY PERMIT!!!!! I CAN DRIVE!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!