לוויתן קטן בעיר גדולה: It must have been the Chocolate Cake

Chocolate cake for breakfast
I knew it would be a great day from the start, after all what can go wrong on a day that starts off with chocolate cake! My breakfast yesterday, as you probably guessed from the previous sentence, included sheep cheese and chocolate cake. And defenitly don’t knock it till you try it- it’s quite delicious! So after my yummy breakfast I went to Ulpan, usually a dull experience but yesterday’s was the best class yet! I should have known it was going to be a great class when I saw that we were switching rooms- we moved from a usually cramped classroom (בכיתה)to a big open בכיתה and the change was very welcomed! Instead of sitting in rows we sat in a circle allowing everyone to see! Anyways the aura of that room was just all together a better learning environment. The whole class was just better all together! It must have been the mixture of sitting next to Max, a very learned man, and the chocolate cake breakfast because before break I had already read and understood a whole paragraph written in Hebrew! I was very impressed with myself too!
Anyways the rest of the day went considerably great too, I had another laundry party with my friend Sophie, I cleaned my room, and I went back into storage! So everything was pretty great yesterday.
AND SURPRISINGLY the trend carried onto today! I had another very good class of Ulpan, where I understood everything that was going on and answered almost all of my question right, and we had a sukkah building party in the courtyard! I love to decorate for sukkot so this was a really great party! There were people painting a making decorations (including an awesome poster made by Ilana, Sophie, and me), people actually building the sukkah, and others just randomly dancing and hanging out with friends. It was a great atmosphere and another memory that I will never forget thanks to Nativ 29.

Moral of the story- ALWAYS have chocolate cake for breakfast
*even better- today I studied with my staff (slash BFF if your reading this) Cori, and did really well! Ive already decided that if I get an A on the test tomorrow im going to make photo copies and post them randomly around Beit Nativ… so look out for them..

Bad- no package yet… but don’t worry family! You can replace that by sending me mail at:
Sarah Ziskend
8 agron street
P.O. Box 7456
Jerusalem, 94265 Israel

Another good- ive discovered how great the olives here are and now im eating a million a day… maybe that’s not so good…