i havent been in the mood to blog...

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY:

We got to sleep in, and since i had a late night, I didnt get out of bed until 1. I then had to quickly get ready because the bus left to go to efrat. This is in the west bank and i was only about a 30 minute bus ride. We had a guard on the bullet proof bus. When we got there, we were at a synogoge and someone drove rach and me to our family (2 people per family). We were fortunate and ended up being with such a nice family. Their home was very nice and they had 6 children, their youngest was mine and rachel's age. Only 2 of their kids were there for shabbat. The father was born in israel, but his parents were from Iran. The mom was from England, but made aliyah when she was young. We didnt hang out with them too much, only for meals. For the majority of shabbas, we were at the shul hanging out with each other. Some people didnt get put with the best families and the families were a bit racist. I really liked the place, i thought it was going to be really religious, but most of the people were modern orthodox. On friday night, on the street was where all of the teens hung out and there was a stand handing out popcorn and candy...it was so cute!

SUNDAY:

I went to volunteering and after that Gabi and i didnt go to our optional classes to do our project for Holocaust film. We had to review two movies, but usually people just have to do one. We thought we did an okay job, until we presented. I realize now that he cares more about our opinion and review on the movie based on all of the information we found, rather than just saying the information without an opinion. After we presented, we watched the movie "God on Trial," which was pretty interesting. I then had this AJU (American Jewish University) thing that all north americans went to. It was basically telling us some things about AJU, in case we were interested in going. They gave us free pizza. yay! After that i worked on hebrew for a little, ran with katie and then hung out with boaz because he was going back to the army the next day.

MONDAY:

Yesterday I went to volunteering. I then came home and worked on our hebrew script with gabi. Hebrew class went pretty well, and after hebrew Gabi and i did our script. Our teacher thought we did really good. woo hoo! i then took a nap and woke up for genesis parables. After class i read for a little and then a couple of us went to the begin heritage center where there would be a Q and A session we could go to for free. The British ambassador was there and there were 3 israeli brits..i think? and although we werent british, it was interesting to learn and hear the british perspective. Many questions dealing with gilo and iran were asked. One thing i found very, very interesting was the reason behind newspapers' headlines being "Israel killed 2" or "2 Israelis killed" and never saying the other side who killed those israelis (palestinians). The reason is that the newspaper headline can only have 33 characters, and palestinians would use up too many of them. so crazy. After the q and a session and taking all of the left over food (hahahaha) we went back to our apartment and just hung out for the rest of the night.

TUESDAY:

Today i got to sleep in because we didnt have anything until 1:45 (the siyyur was going to the hadassah hospital). I forced myself out of bed at 11:30, i got like 10 hours of sleep, but was still exhausted. Then i met up with rach and britty in mamila and i got breakfast/lunch at aroma. We then had to wait a long time for one of our buses (we had to take 2) because we were going to meet everyone else at the hospital. We ended up being pretty late and missed some of a lecture. oops! We didnt get in trouble. The lecture was interesting because it was a doctor who was telling us all of these lies the media says. For example, one time it said that 40 Palestinians were killed and 40 more were injured and all of the media used the same picture. If that really occurred, than there would be way more than 1 picture. We then got asked how come we dont want to donate our time and money to hadassah, which just made everyone frustrated. I was just annoyed because i was tired. We then got a small tour of part of the hospital. We got to go into the emergency room (i forgot it's real name) that is also used as a shelter against nuclear (and stuff like that) power. The walls are extremely thick and below the floor we stand on is 3 feet of sand, and then the ground. This is in case there is an explosive below the building. People are brought into this room if they need reviving after a car accident, or terrorist attack.

After we left it took about an hour to get back to our apartment. I made myself a grilled cheese, than watched a Holocaust movie called "The Grey Zone." I got it from my teacher because i missed class a couple of weeks ago to be with mom and bubbe. I didnt have to watch it, but I asked him for it. It was a really powerful movie. It was weird because it was produced by Americans, but didnt come out in America until a year after it came out in israel. It was in the perspective of the Jews who had to lock people into the gas chambers and burn their bodies. It also was about the women and men who bombed 2 gas chambers in berkinau. It wasnt focused on that as much, and some of the things werent fact. It was interesting because I heard the true story when i was in the women's barrack in berkinau. After the movie I hung around the apartment and didnt go to bed too late.