Today I woke up and showed Rach what I did last night and then talked to Steph for a little. I was late to volunteering, but when I got there I couldn't find Basima, so I sat in the teachers lounge listening to my ipod and playing solitaire until the period was over. I took students out, they were boys and 2 were not listening to me and being loud. Other teachers sent them back to class. In the other class I walked around helping students. Basima then gave me 2 tests her students did. She wants me to do them when I have free time and give them back to her on my last day, which is Wednesday. Is that a joke?! I find it funny, I'm not really that angry. This would never happen anywhere else. She also asked about the other Jessica. For the last time, SHE IS NOT GOING TO COME ANYMORE. So frustrating. I dont want to talk to Jess and tell her that she needs to fucking call Basima.When I got home I worked with Katie on our slides.

We are all cranky (especially Rach.) She is telling us that it isn't her project, but then she says we shouldn't have this and this. UGH. Like she doesn't want any slide effects...I wasn't going crazy with them. I swear. She didn't even want there to be red to emphasize a word on a title of one of the slides we did. At like 2:30ish, Cara and I met outside of the library and then after coming up with a really short script for our oral test in ulpan, I finally went into the library!!! The librarian spoke to me in hebrew and english. I could follow along, for the most part, of what she was asking me. She also was patient when I answered her back in hebrew. She showed me all of these great children books perfect for me. If only I had more time to go there and just read. I feel like I had a lot less free time being here. When I got to ulpan, I was nervous and trying to memorize what i had to say. I was the doctor for plastic surgery.Unlike other ulpan classes, we had class for the entire hour. After learning for a bit and preparing for the written test, Cara and I went first. Eeeeek! I couldnt memorize something, so I just said something that made sense, but not part of our really short script. Our teacher said it was really short, but she gave us an 85! I think I know why I got a 75 last time, even though I spoke for a wayyyy longer time, and I was alone...I didn't use much vocabulary. After that, while others were going, I got a Nokout (the oreo one...so good. i get that one at the place close to the ulpan because they don't have my ultimate fav kind of ice cream) and then hung out with some people who were out of class for a bit. When class was over, my group got ready for our presentation. We went first. Eeeek. It ended up going really well. I really wasn't nervous and I think ours was the most professional.

After ulpan, I had the zman madrich in Yaffo. It was a really pretty place-Rach and I decided we must have a picnic there. Noa made us pasta and salad, and then we all sat in a circle and decorated masks-one side being how we are now, and the other is how we want to be. My first side was all red, because I'm always embarrassed...but my other side was gold and had blue words by the lips such as confident, strong, etc. I still had rosy cheeks, though! I think on year course I wear that side of the mask, for the most part, but I am scared that I might go back to my other mask when I go home.

After that we bough fro-yo with our apartment stipend. So good. A couple of us couldnt finish ours, so rach finished ours! She was hungry! (I'm still a little shocked along with everyone else there that i didn't finish mine-and physically couldnt.) Then instead of going to a friends apartment, I ended up talking to aaron, steph, mom, soph, boaz, elana, michelle, am i forgetting someone else?? It was really nice, but I didn't get to bed until 3, I think.