On Thursday I got word that I was not accepted into Tufts University, one of the colleges that I had applied to. With this, I was pretty much ready to declare my loyalties to Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont (which I have thus dubbed B-Towns, USA). So with that, my parents are taking care of the necessary forms to send into the college while I have joined the "Official Bennington Class of 2015" facebook group. It's so interesting/weird/frightening/hilarious to see the people I am going to go to school with next year. I mean, I am going to KNOW these people. Maybe one of them will be my roommate.
I spent Thursday and Friday night in Moda'in with the Kagans again. On Friday we went to a bat mitzvah in a Kibbutz. I forgot how much I love kibbutzes. They're so quiet and removed from the rest of the world, but it's so much fun to explore and poke around. I found a tree hidden from sight with a plank of wood nailed to some of the branches as a sort of tree-house thing. Climbing up and onto the wood reminded me of my youth, climbing trees in Israel.
Last night I took the only available train (at 9:15 at night) from Moda'in to Kfar Saba (which I have now dubbed K-Towns, Israel). I taught at Brener School today. The students I worked with were really nice and awesome and I had a lot of fun. When I got home to Shaked's house, I found her and Inbal napping (WHAT IS WITH THESE NOCTURNAL ISRAELIS?). When they awoke, the three of us went out shopping and for dinner. It was a very girly evening.
The most important thing of these past four days has been, of course, LOST. It's nice to me that I feel at ease and at home enough in this country and with the people I am spending time with that I can fall back into old home-like patterns of caring about stupid things, like the show Lost. I don't feel in the least bit guilty about creating a new obsession - I spend part of my week in a very intense and highly serious internship and then I have the time to relax and fall into a Lost extravaganza (I'm on Season 2, Episode 6, but I've already watched the last half of Season 2 with Shaked and episode from Season 4 with another friend). Besides. It's a good show. So no judgment, guys.
It's so strange that I have been here five weeks and still have five more weeks to go. Oh well. Everyone's talking about Passover. I know I'm spending it with my dad's old host family that have sort of become like my adopted grandparents, so no questions there. Rena makes the moooost incredible food, and I can please her just by sitting on the couch watching TV and eating that food. I'm not in any way complaining.
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You seem to be having a great time!
ReplyDeleteMy family is on Episode 20, Season 2 of Lost. Isn't it an awesome show?
Tenara, reading your blog has been so cool. When I read about your identity crisis, I thought about you quoting Eileen- you get what you need from Walkabout. Also I love that it has brought you to thinking about a career in teaching. Not that I think you should or should not be a teacher, but that through Walkabout you are growing in a way that has you considering your career options. It seems that you are getting everything and more out of Walkabout that we could hope for. Take care!
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