Today I woke up at 10ish and Katie made all of us pancakes!!! People had them with chocolate spread, but i passed on that. too early! Then people were going to the shuk, but we all decided i would not be useful AT ALL. I was just gonna start the book "The Time Traveler's Wife." We need toilet paper so i was in charge of getting that. When I got ready to go, i asked if others wanted to join. they said they were going to get the toilet paper later, but i was in the mood to be productive, so i just went alone. Rach needed some things they couldnt find at the shuk. I tried to look for the things..so difficult! I got mostly everything they needed, but a few things i either couldnt find or they didnt sell. I kept on asking different people for help. Some were nice, others were not so nice (and they worked at the store!) I went to 2 grocery places looking for things and i was gone for like 2 hours and only came back with a few things. It was hot out and was annoying to walk back with the groceries (used my trader joe's bag!) and a pack of 48 toilet paper rolls. Oh, I forgot to mention that this morning i woke up and i have lost my voice! Katie lost hers a couple of days ago. It was so hard when i asked for things because sometimes they couldnt hear me and when i would call rachel she sometimes couldnt hear me. ahhh. so annoying.

In the first grocery store i went to, i was looking at vegetables and all of the sudden there is a huge rat running across the ground into the food and then runs back out. IT WAS HUGE. A woman told someone who works here and the person who worked there just shrugged her shoulders!

Anyways, when i got back to the apartment, the people who went to the shuk were back. We then started to prepare dinner. We started to chop vegetables for the salads. I attempted to cut cucumbers and carrots. By the end of the trip i will be a pro (hopefully)! I gave up and decided to read "The Time Traveler's Wife" and after a little i decided to take a nap. Rach woke me up asking if i wanted to shower, because if so i had to get up and take one. I forced myself to get up and took a shower (it was almost hot, and then it got cold). I got ready for shabbas and then we went to shul. The services were a little long, but it wasnt terrible. Someone gave a long sermon though and a lot of us were really bored because we had no clue what he was talking about! I then decided to try and listen for the words i knew and guess what he is talking about. that was kind of fun. When we got back we had a GREAT shabbas dinner. so yummy. We then went into someone's apartment and just hung out, talked, and played games for a really long time. it was so nice! it is 1:20 and i want to go to shul tomorrow. shabbat shalom!

btws, what were the sermons the rabbis said for rosh hashanah? and let me know about the yom kippur ones!! (otherwise i wont be hearing any sermon...i am assuming all of the sermons given during yom kippur will be in hebrew....)