Yesterday, I woke up extremely tired even though I slept for 7 hrs the night before and I went through my morning classes in a bit of a daze. During lunch I decided to take a nap and I was really happy when I woke up feeling much better. Later that day, or at night really, I was hanging out in school and I suddenly became super hyper and overtired. At first I couldn't really sit still and then I was just laughing and going a bit crazy. I was hanging out with my friend Sarah as she was working on Mishmar and we just had so much fun coming up with titles for different topics and me going crazy was also pretty funny. At around midnight, I decided that it was time for me to go to sleep. I walked back to my room and when I got there, I realized that we had both taken our flip-flops off but I wasn't paying attention and I put on one of my flip-flops and one of Sarah's flip-flops. I called her and we both laughed as we decided to trade back in the morning.
The next morning, I woke up, got ready, and then looked at my bag and I saw a huge bug on it with the longest antennas I've ever seen. I told my roommates to quickly evacuate the room while I throw my bag outside. I quickly threw my bag outside of our room and the bug fell off of my bag and then Talia stepped on it. So that was our nice little bit of early morning excitement. I went down to breakfast, did a little flip-flop exchange with Sarah, ate cornflakes, and then went to class. Then came the little ice cream episode. Just a little background on the ice cream, my friend Noga and I hung out on Monday night and we both bought these like tubs of ice cream. I didn't really finish mine so I put it in the freezer so I could eat it later. Things in the fridge/ freezer have a habit of disappearing but I didn't really care too much about my ice cream so I was just like, whatever. Today I found that it was still there so I took it out to eat it. Unfortunately, about twenty people were around and they were all kinda staring at me so I was like, okay I'm just going to put this away now. By the end of the day, almost everybody knew that the tub of ice cream was mine but I didn't mind too much. Maybe I'll eat it tomorrow.
For my Chumash BeIyun class with Rav Yonatan, we all had to prepare a short lesson to present to the class. There were three chavrutas and me and my chavruta, Amy, taught the class about a rebellious son. Afterwards, we had some extra time left so Rav Yonatan took us on a field trip. We went to a really cool rooftop lookout that I've never been on before where we could see a huge portion on the Jewish quarter. Then we sat outside and learned a little bit about Jerusalem being the place that god chose for his temple. When the class ended, we had to run back to our dorms where everybody was meeting to take a group picture of everyone in Harova. After lunch, we went on another field trip with Rav Shames for our class on the Laws of Shabbat.
Tonight, we had a guest speaker who was acting as a Palestinian activist and showing us what a presentation by such a person may look like. I must say, we've learned quite a lot about Israel and we were able to argue with a lot of the statements that he made and defend the State of Israel. Afterwards, Sarah taught us a few life lessons that she learned from Pirkei Avot that corresponded with life lessons that she learned from her friend Zachary who passed away one month ago from Leukemia. Then two other girls, Eliana and Aliza taught us about Jerusalem. This completed the end of a very interesting day at Harova. Shalom V'lehitraot!
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