Jerusalem

[champrachlin1]

yes i know i have been writing alot lately mainly due to boredom and mono but i really dont care. i have class at 830 tomorrow and i had a flash of somethign i just needed to write about. so i decide that im gonna swim later in the day so i can watch another episode of boston legal. really funny show. check it out. anyway so i go to my phone and go to change the alarm when i accidently hit the world clock. i set it, like most of my other clocks that have the ability to do this, to jerusalem time. right now its 830 there. i would be going to class this time last year. i saw it and it struck a cord that i ahvent felt in a year. i was bitter that i had to leave and i took it out on people, aka almost anyone i could. but u know what? unless youve lived there you can understand. that city, the city of everyones god, is something truely to behold. to live in a place that is considered the navel of history and of the world itself is quite something. to be a part of it to see it the smells the sights the sounds. there is no where, and i mean no where, in this world, except for maybe camp, that i felt more at home. it wasnt the fact i was overseas in a new country excitement yada yada yada. it was something else. since i was a child i read about this city. the city of my ancestors and of 3 major religions. the city begot by violence since the day it took the name jerusalem. the city that i believe will end the arab israeli conflict and the city where it is said that G-d resides. i can never conve in words what it is like to stand in those streets. i can never show u the true reason why i loved it there. when i met up with some friends from osu on ben yeuda street, they took one look at me and after about five mins of talking noomers smiled and said, you love it here dont you. i looked at her and i said if i could, i would never leave. as much as i like this country and all the things that are here, i think i will always love jerusalem more. not israel mind you. just jerusalem. the kingdom of heaven. if i had my way....i wouldve never left and i prolly wouldve never come back. i dont regret coming back. it forced necessary steps in my life to be taken and it forced me to rethink what i want to do with my life. but sometimes i honestly wish i wouldve taken the woman in the advising offices advice and made alliyah. that is all. my remmenidicing is over.

on another note, today rocked. transformers steaks hung out with jess for about 5 hours. great day. yesterday not so much. i mean it was good and fun but i got a nice scare from a friend. thank god shes ok but if what the scare was about was real.....i dont know what i would do. ive had 2 taken away from me ebcause of it. i wont let it take another one unless its me. ever. i dont care what it would take. it will not take another person close to me again, espically this one. never again. ok enough seriousness, um....i got nothing. i had a great 4th and i hope u all did too. and i had a great time writing this. it made me smile. oh yea btw-apparently my rants are getting really funny. things that bother me i just got really annoyed at and i go on rants. want an example? ask me about satan sheets or bathing suits. it even ammuses me but its all true. ok im out. bedtime. nightters!