Day Four and Five ish

Right now on my on the fence ways of life, I'm leaning towards staying for second session and I'm recruiting MAR kids which means Rabbi Eve makes more money which means I could get more money for scholarships for second session. CA-CHING. :] But I don't want to make any descions until a later date.



Yesterday, ohhh Wednesday. What a day of roller coasters.

Well all day basiclly I was stuck in the beit am because of the thunderstorm.

That was so much fun though. I hung out with Jesus and Kayla and other people. I got to sit in on David Singer's T'filah class and figured out what prayer truely was. Even though of course you didn't figure out why people pray..one day..i'll know his anwser..one day..but I mean that's the point. Then I missed all my afternoon electives because of the thunderstorm.

I went back to the cabin and talked to Zach for a little bit and played some geeetar with Lindsay. After that we had dinner. Meat loaf. Sick nasty. I wasn't eatting something that looked like it could eat me. Then we had song session down stairs again. But the storm came once again and attacked us all in the program room. And when i say attacked, I mean it just came to the camp. It was actually really pretty. I took some pictures of the clouds and such.

We waited and then had services. Steve Dropkin led them. I was really upset because I didn't have my Ha'avoda Shibalev with me because we didn't get a chance to get back to the cabins and I just wasn't in a good mood. I just decided to stand for the entire service. For some reason I felt that would just make me feel better for being all stupid and pissy. But when Steve played his Oseh Shalom I sat down and thought back to my own temple at home sitting next to my father singing this song with him. It's our favorite version and everything felt better agian. I lost my voice because I was so into it and loved that song so much. And he even ended with Bayom Hahu and we all know how I freakin adore that song. :]

After that we were suppose to have a program but they couldn't do it because we had to stay in the program room because of the thunder storm. Instead we had these cabin like games where we had to go against each other. We had to get in a big circle with your cabin and squeeze together front to back and sit on eachother's laps and which ever cabin could do it first without falling down won. HILL 2 KICKED MAJOR TUCHAS! We won. It was amazing! Lindsay and I got really into it. It was crazy fun. Then all the seniors started to really create this big bond and we kept on chanting " '08 DAMN STRAIGHT!" And so and so forth. It was beautiful. I loved all the ruach and feeling from all the seniors. Hills 1, 2, and 5 are the senior cabins. We are kind of a big deal. I completely lost my voice from cheering so much, that's how much fun we had.

We went back to the cabins and got really crazy. I can't really talk about it on this blog because I don't think you cool cats could handle it.

Today I woke up and showered and such. Then I went to breakfast. It was fine. I took some pictures around camp. Ahh I love how pretty Kutz looks. Then we had morning shacarit (aka services) they were beautiful. As badly as I wanted to sing I couldn't because of my lackage of voice so I just mouthed all the prayers and such. I still felt just as connected. Josh is such a fantastic songleader. I loved seeing him up there. Especially for certian prayers he got so into it. Rabbi Koppel did such a great job leading services this morning too. I really connected with services this morning. I didn't like sitting in the back because of all the talking, but sometimes you just gotta deal with it and move on.

After services we went to majors. I was a little bit of a dead beat today in majors. But we learned more about Momonodies and his ideas and what we think about them. Then a guest rabbi came in and talked to us about things. I can't even remember it because it felt like forever ago. But I liked it. It was interesitng.

Then I had my first elective. I've changed all of my electives. I'm in this new elective called writing the Jewish Essay. It's basiclly a class with this amazing woman whose jewish who wrote for the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. She's teaching us how to write really good personal narratives. We are writing about how we found our Jewish idenity. I'm writing my essay about my tallit katan and why I do it and how it all started. I'm really excited for her to read it. It's going to be fantastic. Plus she's teaching us how to have even better writing skills which will totally help me for the future.

My second elective is Jewish ethics. But once again those darn thrunderstorms stopped me from going so I hung out in the beit am again and drew pictures. We had a fire drill today. We thought it was real but it was just a false alarm. I took a nap in the toy room. My chocolate art class is really fun. And I'm really hot. I just got back from the HUC-JIR interest meeting. I can actually be both a rabbi and cantor. So I'm super excited for that.

I'm going to head back to my cabin soon and take a shower. But I'm excited for Shabbat tomorrow night. :]

ROSIE + ZACKKYY D = one hot time. hahaha