As you well know, in 1621 the pilgrims came over on the mayflower and the first thanksgiving was created. In 2009 80 nativer’s and 70 old nativers gathered at 8 Argon Street to teach Israel the meaning of turkey. We met in the synagogue with all the old nativers, staff, and random yeshiva people where we watched a video on nativ (made by Hadley and Joe) and heard about past nativers who have joined the army, gotten married, or made aliyah. Next Kehilla and all old nativers from years 0-23 went in one dinning room and Kebutz and all others went into another. When we walked in there was a surprise waiting for all of us- letters from home. In theory a great idea, but when you give a girl a long romantic letter from her boyfriend that she hasn’t seen in 4 months (sorry for the shout out Jason…) your bound to se some tears…. And by that I mean tears worth leaving the room for. Once my make-up was fixed I went back in and read the others- and then had to leave again because I read my dads….. rough night. After getting over the whole “home-sick” feeling everyone had we ate dinner. Surprisingly Israel does know a thing or two about food- we just rarely see it at Agron. I had two (I wish I could say servings here but ill be honest) plates of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, ect. And I ate until I could see my food baby showing. It was really nice being surrounded by all my friends, a different feeling than most years but defiantly a good one. We all just talked and laughed until we moved down to the auditorium where we watched another movied about thanksgiving (made by ME!). Everyone laughed and enjoyed it which was really nice/ made me feel good. Then I just crashed in my bed and fell asleep (after skyping with my family and Jason of course). All in all it was a really nice thanksgiving that I will never forget.
Black Friday was spent a little different this year… I went to Tel Aviv with my friends Miri (for her birthday), Ally, Lainie, Razie, Laura, and Shara. We went to an art fair Friday day and shopped/look around. It was nice spending the day being girlie with friends and not having anything to do. We ate lunch at this really cute pizza place where we ordered a TON of pizzas… literally 7- the waitress was like “you really want another”… kinda embarrassing now that I look at how much that was… We met up with two of Miris friends at the restaurant- Dani and Annie, and from there we went to the hotel (since it was Miri’s birthday her mom bought us a suite for the night!) got snacks and had sushi for dinner. A Richard Gear marathon was on TV so for the rest of the night that’s what we did (ps if you haven’t seen the movie Unfaithful, stop reading this and go do it… like now)… That is until midnight when we had mimosas on the beach- it was very cute!
Today (Sunday the 29th of November) I had another great day of volunteering! I teach at the Frankel School (past Hebrew U. on Mount Scopus) in 4th and 5th grade. For one hour I take Israeli children out and one by one they read to me. Any word they don’t understand in English I explain to them in Hebrew- I find it to be a really good trade off. We both learn a lot in the end (or what I can remember). For example today I had a whole conversation with a little girl about the zoo in Hebrew- we talked about all the animals and what sounds they make (very sophisticated and mature- I know). In the 5th grade class I teach three girls who are above there class level. We do worksheets about story making and go over spelling (after being asked five times how to spell “fell” you start to question yourself). And then for a half hour I organize the library. I love going to volunteering- it’s a lot of fun, really rewarding, and I’m getting more involved with the community; I absolutely love it!
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