I cannot believe people are actually reading this! haha! So to answer some questions...i have not used the "Help! My Apartment Has A Kitchen" cookbook, yet. ill let you know when i do. I have had free time lately but i mostly just sleep during that time/explore the streets. i have been walking so much. my feet are so sore and i think i pulled a butt muscle! I havent been taking too many pics yet, but once i start classes and volunteering and get in the groove i will post pics. We forgot the number of our host family so idk if we will stay in touch with them. I would like it if we did, though. anyways....

Today I had to be ready by 8 and we took a bus to this one building where teachers go for seminars. Everyone was so tired. We had a pretty good teacher who gave us handouts about what to do while we are in classroom. We talked about learning disabilities, games to engage the kids, how to connect to the students, etc. We had a couple of breaks and we ended at 12:30. But before we left we got asked what age group we wanted to work with. i told them i wanted to improve my hebrew and i would do any age group. They needed people to work with middle and high schoolers, so ill be working with that age group. I'm excited. Hopefully i will be able to help them and they will like me! Tomorrow all i have to do is work on projects/games for students. I then have wed and thurs off and just start on sunday. it's like a 40 minute bus ride. Although i do have to wake up earlier, i dont mind because i really enjoy taking the bus!

After taking the bus home and talking to a brit (who was so hard for me to understand!) i went back to my apartment and ate lunch. I packed a lunch (in my lunch sac!), but didnt want to eat it there. People were starting to clean up the apartment so me and britty decided to go to a grocery store and buy cleaning supplies. It was a pain to carry back. When we got back we unloaded the bags and went to the corner and got ice cream. Before we got ice cream we checked the list to see what siyurs (field trip we take every tuesday) we got. This tuesday i am going to the jewish quarter. and another one of them is visiting yad vashem (Holocaust memorial museum). It was for people who have never been there...and i have been there multiple of times. hopefully i can talk to them and they can put me in a different one. there were more but i cant remember them. anyways, when we got to the corner store we got a 10% discount because we are from young judaea. i was so bummed that the ice cream wasnt good...wayyyy too melted.

As soon as I finished my ice cream I went to take a nap. i got woken up about 1 and a half hours later. I found out what classes I'm taking! I am taking a writing class which i am really unhappy with. i wanted to take this class where you analyze stories from the Bible. I just took a 7 week intense college writing class. I want a break! Maybe it will help improve my writing. if i really hate it ill see if i can switch out. i also signed up for an optional class where we watch/analyze Holocaust movies. The teacher made famous hollywood films but made alyiah a couple of years ago. We watch a movie (sometimes he will buy us pizza and we will watch 2 movies) per class, which is every sunday. Today we watched the movie called The Great Dictator. The class doesnt seem like it will be difficult. I will let you know a basic weekly schedule when i figure it out! but i hope i will be able to balance my school work and not become too stressed by it, but also try my hardest.

Class didnt end until around 8ish and then a lot of us from our apartment decided to go get sushi. It was really good. I split fried rice, a roll of carrot and cucumber sushi, and noodles with chicken and vegetables. after dinner, some people went out to go to the bars but i went with some friends to go get a crepe! i got nutella with colored sprinkles. IT WAS SO GOOD! it was also freezing outside! we took the bus home and i walked super quickly because i was so cold (even though my butt muscle hurt!!).

When I got back i hung out with people, talked to STEPHANIE, HER FRIEND "KT," SOPHIE, AND SARAH. (there steph, i wrote about us talking). i also saw my poochie moo moo...aka tripper. i miss him so much...i then took a cold shower and now it is almost 3am, but i dont have to wake up until 9:30am. It's so weird how late a go to bed but i go to bed kind of early compared to the other girls in my apartment!