sorry for not doing so well with the blog..ive been pretty busy. here is wednesday:

Yesterday I woke up at 7:40ish. There was NO food in the apartment so I had a handful of nuts for breakfast and then made 4 peanut butter crackers (we only had 9 crackers left). so annoying. when we got to work we had to do busy work. Pamela has run out of stuff for us to do! We had so much free time so we just drew pictures and we got to leave early. It is pointless for us to even go! I was happy when we got to go home early and read for a little. I was waiting for katie to come home because i wanted to go get falafel with her and then go to independence park to finish up some homework. When she got back we got ready to go, but then 2 people were at the grocery store and the credit card they had didnt have enough money. It was this whole mess and so since the grocery store they were at was on our way to the bus stop, we decided to stop by. One of them left while we came because she didnt know where she put her wallet and wanted to retrace her steps. We then looked through the shopping cart and after explaining it to the people that work there, we were able to put things back we didnt want. There were so many unnecessary things. I always bring this up to katie, rach, and britty...people in our apartment think i do so much more than i actually do. It's because i hang out with people who know stuff. Like i dont go out of my way and clean (i obviously clean up after myself and clean when i have to), but since rach and katie do it, people think i do too. Also, all 3 of them go shopping for food a lot and know what the good stuff is to buy, people ask me what is good to get...ha I HAVE NO CLUE!

Anways, after we deal with the groceries we help anna take them back to the apartment. Then instead of buying falafel i decide to make a quick turkey sandwich to go. Before we get to the park i decided to get ice cream. It was a tough, tough choice! but a man (maybe mid 60s?) needed a phone. his phone that he got for 2 weeks was an international phone and couldnt make calls on it to people in israel. but he got the phone so he could call people while he was in israel. him and his wife are from new york and they are visiting some of the kids/grandchildren. Katie and i talked to them for about 15 minutes and i let them use my phone to make a couple of phone calls. They were really nice and it was just nice to talk to americans about crazy israeli drivers! The man's wife works at a school and is a guidance counselor so she asked what colleges we are going to and stuff. She also brought up about how maybe we will meet our future husband here. Her husband rolled his eyes and we all cracked up. The woman said "My son said they were taking classes and studying together, but that is not what was happening." Katie and i have VERY similar humor (mom, dad, noah, steph, and soph-katie would fit right in with our jokes!!!!) Katie then said to her "they were studying. they were studying chemistry" i cracked up. We then both said bye and katie and i headed to the park. We could only be there for 45 minutes but i got some work done.

We wanted to catch a bus so we had to run for it and we were both out of breath and cracking up. When we got back everyone from shevet was outside and ready to go meya sheayreem. We had to change into skirts that covered our knees and shirts that covered our elbows. Rachel's brother met up with us and just came with us! We took a coach bus there. Guys went to a different place than the girls because i guess only guys are allowed to go there and it would be a cool experience for them. The girls got off the bus and then we went to a place where they were selling lulavs and etrogs. etrogs smell so good!!! I was thinking about buying my own (altogether 50 sheks!) but Katie said i can just borrow hers (she got one because some of her family will be here for sukkot). The guy who she was buying from was funny. It was crazy how religious these people are and it was magnificent watching them trying to buy the 4 species.

We then walked through some streets and it was cool to see how there were so many sukkahs. There were sukkah's all over the place! Speaking of sukkah's--dad how is it going? did the weather get better so you could finish?? i love sukkot and i wish i was home so i could eat in the sukkah during the fall! are you guys going to bossi and levis? hopefully it wont pour :) hahahha. After we walked through we were just free to rome around. i have started to get used to this kind of freedom. A few of us were hungry and didnt want to go explore. We ended up exploring though to find the bus stop. It was interesting, but uncomfortable. It was so so so crowded and there are just so many young kids! Also, a group of 10 men walked by looking down, holding signs and on a megaphone speaking in hebrew in a monotone voice. The sign in english said to dress modestly and such. It was so weird! I felt like they would hurt someone (like drag them down the street) if someone was not dressed modestly enough.

When we got back to our side of town, I (i capitalized that) made myself a grilled cheese...WITH A PAN!!!! it was good! katie cut up celery and an apple and i cut up carrots. We had it with peanut butter and hummus (not mixed though). so good!!!! While making dinner, we got our new bus passes! woo hoo! We get a bus pass each month..in case you didnt know. september was purple, and october is light brown--not as pretty as the purple! Then before I showered mine and rach's room became a party room and a group of us just talked about how we should divide up to 8 and 8 for food and each take a credit card (because we get 2 credit cards and that is what they suggested to do). I understand that one group might buy something that someone in the other group wants to eat, but it is IMPOSSIBLE to shop for 16 girls. it is impossible to picture the amount of food we need. at least with 8 it is a little easier! We talked about how instead of doing 8 and 8 by rooms, do it by who usually eats with who. There is a pretty solid group of us who always eat together and the others also tend to eat together. It just makes sense to split up into the groups we naturally make, rather than just dividing up by room. We are going to discuss this in our meeting with our madrich. We are also gonna talk about how messy the apartment is. so gross! some of us clean, but others dont!!! we even made a schedule of what rooms do what what days.

After my nice hot shower, i got ready to go out (traffic light) and skyped with sarah, my friend jill from motl (she is also really close with rachel), and rachel (the one from chicago). Before we headed towards ben yehuda, rach and i walked with katie and her lulav and etrog to her apartment to drop them off. It was such a cute, homey apartment! From her apartment we walked to ben yehuda. On the way the funniest thing happened. Katie stops and says "shit! i just got bird shit on me! oh well. it is good luck to get shat on" rach and i crack up and rach says "luckily it didnt get on me or jess...SHIT! it got me too! this black sweater isnt mine..it's britty's!" I couldnt breathe while they were wiping the bird poop off of them. we decided we were NOT going to drink tonight because we dont need to drink to be goofballs and to have fun! initally some funny/interesting things happened. but then the night was pretty good. At first we planned on catching the last bus (which is at 12:30) but then we just decided to stay. It was a dance party at the bar we went to and katie and i were just dancing like freaks. for some songs we were doing interpretive dancing and since it was always techno (got annoying after a little) i always did the hoedown throwdown! people thought we were drunk! hahaha.

we left around 1:30ish and britty, katie, james, and me walked back (we dont like spending money on cabs/want excerise/it's a nice walk). Katie almost got run over a couple of times but one time the driver was so rude! we were not on a main road, it was like a street road in a neighborhood and we are just walking in the street because it is late and no one is out driving. All of the sudden this car just speeds towards us so we run out of the way and he honks for the longest time at us. wtf! katie was so funny because she was on the other side of the street so she could have just stayed there, but her jaw drops and she SPRINTS to the sidewalk that we ran to. We were on the floor dying, and it made it funnier because we couldnt let out our laugh because people were sleeping all around us. We finally got back at 3ish and some people were drunk and loud and sick so i only ended up getting about 2 hours of sleep because i had to wake up at 6:45. That is why i did not write my blog last night! When i got back we did hang out for 30 minutes though. I knew i should have gone straight to bed, but i ended up skyping with steph and soph and got to say HAPPY BIRTHDAYYY to sophie along with seeing stephanie and sophie get into a physical fight because sophie wanted stephanie to pick what movie to watch and stephanie was getting mad at her because she didnt care and wanted to be left alone. I also got to talk to AARON for a few minutes. Im happy he IMed me :)

ps- it was jeff siedel's house i went to to break the fast

note to self: what's your name?