THURSDAY:

Yesterday I went to volunteering a little late, but it didnt matter. When we got off the bus and started to walk, i felt that my back leg was wet. I just ignored it, but then i could really feel it. I didnt pee my pants, so i was wondering what was going on! It was a little wet, but i just kept on walking where i felt it get more and more wet. wtf! I stopped ashley and it took us about 2 minutes (that is a long time) to figure out that maybe my water bottle in my bag was opened. we are so smart. Everything in my bag was soaked...including my notebooks for ulpan (ugh i hate how the pages have that feeling after they are dry after being drenched!). More importantly, my phone that doesnt shut all the way got soaked...water poured out of it. yay. I let it air dry, but my phone still didnt work. We just went for 1 class and then left early because Pamela didnt have anything for us to do. When I came home I was planning on taking a nap, but i decided to study for my ulpan test. This was after katie put my cell phone pieces (i took apart my phone) into rice. I was supposed to let it sit in rice for 4 hours to let the rice absorb the water. I was nervous for my ulpan test! I then went to lunch and learn, where we got sorbet! I then had my ulpan test...it was so easy!! I was happy because i didnt need to know certain vocab words, like specific veggies or something. After the test (which is also a placement test), we could just go!

When I came back to the apartment, me and some others started to prepare for our thanksgiving feast! I made a salad and i even cut up a mango!! I also MADE whipped cream! I then took a nap for about 10 minutes, and then went to my genesis parables class. We watched the movie "red," it's a french film. It was pretty good. After class i talked to my teacher about an idea of mine i have for my paper. The good thing, but also annoying thing is that he wont say if it is a good thing to write on...he will say if it will be too difficult or not good. i kept on changing my mind while he talked to me. So i think what i am going to write my final paper on is the 3rd interpretation of the bible (more specifically some genesis stories. This 3rd interpretation is taking into account the literal and the figurative when reading.

After class, i worked on trying to put my phone back together and tried to see if i lost all my numbers, etc. katie helped me and i borrowed julia's phone to see what was broken. My battery doesnt work and neither does my phone. I called the company, but just told them that the phone had completely fallen apart. I am getting a new one on sunday. I didnt mention any water damage, so hopefully they wont check so i get the new phone for free. Im not too concerned about the numbers because rach and i have most of the same contacts and i have facebook to ask for the others for theirs!

Around 8ish we had our thanksgiving feast (with chicken instead of turkey). There were a little more than 10 of us. maybe around 15? The food was so so so good. I was stuffed and since i didnt really help set up, i washed all of the pots and dishes (we used plastic to eat on). But this was after I was in the kitchen with katie eating all of top part of the brownies that were burnt. We both got chocolate all over each other. hahahaha. While i was washing the dishes everyone had desert...such a bummer but i was wayyy too stuffed! I then video chatted with my fam and saw the pooch (actually this was before dinner, but whatevs). I also video chatted with the freedmans, bubbe and papa, some other family and ariella lis?! i was so surprised to see her! hahaah. hopefully she survived the "dinner" :) I put dinner in quotations because they had dinner around 3:30ish. ha!

Then i started to watch some of new moon online (illegal..what?!) A couple of us then forced ourselves to get dressed to go out. None of us dressed up. I just wore clear mascara. We didnt really drink, we just went to this bar that was a dancing bar and just danced like psychos haha. It is so funny how israeli guys dance with each other. weirddddd. On the bus home i saw a couple of students from Makif Gilo! Not all of them saw me, though. I saw a couple of them on ben yehuda though. Ugh, it was so gross that night. A lot of fights that people would sprint to because "THEY ARE AWESOME. THIS IS THE REASON I CAME HERE TONIGHT." disgusting! Right before we left the bar/club there was something really bad in the air making us all smoke. When we got home we found out that it came from outside of the bar and it burned some of my roommates eyes. oy. none of us were really sure what it was. sketchy though. Oh, i also read that a terrorist tried to get into israel, but the IDF stopped him...he ran away though leaving a bomb that weighed about 30 something pounds.