update time!
so i think its time for an update. lots and lots and lots has happened so if i forget aything, well, oops!
camp has been great, iv gotten over the whole coservative/reform thing, and i have become the spiritual leader of saba hebrew day camp. yup...me. everyday at lunch, i stand with a washing cup and a bowl in the main hall and wash peoples hands before we eat. for most of the people i have o say the bracha so that th can repeat, but i really feel like if there is any reason for me not knowing that the camp wasnt dati, it was so that i can mak a difference. and finally today i felt like i really did.
yesterday, i gave a class on tisha baav. i wasnt going to come to camp, but decided that i would just so that the fast would go faster (hahaha) so after davening and kinot (we came to the old people minyan by mistake-that means that each and every kina was translated into english. it was just a little long...) point is the head of the camp gave the first class but then on of the c.i.ts fell and hit his head so she had to go with him the he ER. one theway out she yells "aviva take over!". so ya...the class went well, everyone listened and asked questions, but the real blow came to metoday, when ne of the staffers who is allready out of high school came up to me and said, "i heard you gave a class on tisha baav yesterday. can you tell me what it is?". so i told her, and after i felt like maybe i might have changed someone. mayb, even if she never observes, on tisha baav next year sh will think about what i told her. if she does, my mission was accomplished. this whole summer was worth it jus for that.
so...on a lighter note (MUCH lighter.) today me and my sister went on a haunted house tour in washington dc. very amusing! :)
and now for the inal part which iv been dieing to write about:::
HARRYPOTTERHRRYPOTTERHARRYPOTTERHARRYPOTTERHARRYPOTTERHARRYPOTTER....
gaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the seventh book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
me and my sister had preordered the book around pesach time, and when it came to her house we were in baltimore for shabbat. so we got it sunday afternoon (two copies :)) and we opened the package, and then the strangest thing happened. i was holding the book, and i couldnt bring myself to open it up. and then i thought about it....
8.5 years ago, my dad had been doing alot of work in the us. so when he came home for chanukka, i expected one hell of a present. when he gave me two books called harry potter 1 and 2, i wasnt tat happy. i didnt like to read that much, and i had hoped for a better present!! :) but then, i was bored one day, and i opened up the book. it wasnt till a long time after i got them that i did that, but being stuck at home because of a biking accident, there wasntmuch else to do. as soon s i got to the middle i was sucked in to the magical world of those books. i finished the first one as quick as i could, had my sister read me half of the second, and called my father to beg him to bring me the third. after that, i got the next three books in moshava, whih was always pretty funny, and this year i got the seventh one.
i couldnt open it because harry potter is (was :( ) a huge part of me!!! i was an insane fanatic when i was little, and i still like it alot. but now, its over... :( :( :(
so yesterday, when i closed he book (i forced mysef to stretch it out so that i would have something good to read on the fast.) i cried a little. not because of any kind of ending, but because of the fact that a huge part of my childhood is over (i know its sappy but thats what i feel like!!)
so im really tired, and would love to go o bed...good night!!!! love,
vivi :)
camp has been great, iv gotten over the whole coservative/reform thing, and i have become the spiritual leader of saba hebrew day camp. yup...me. everyday at lunch, i stand with a washing cup and a bowl in the main hall and wash peoples hands before we eat. for most of the people i have o say the bracha so that th can repeat, but i really feel like if there is any reason for me not knowing that the camp wasnt dati, it was so that i can mak a difference. and finally today i felt like i really did.
yesterday, i gave a class on tisha baav. i wasnt going to come to camp, but decided that i would just so that the fast would go faster (hahaha) so after davening and kinot (we came to the old people minyan by mistake-that means that each and every kina was translated into english. it was just a little long...) point is the head of the camp gave the first class but then on of the c.i.ts fell and hit his head so she had to go with him the he ER. one theway out she yells "aviva take over!". so ya...the class went well, everyone listened and asked questions, but the real blow came to metoday, when ne of the staffers who is allready out of high school came up to me and said, "i heard you gave a class on tisha baav yesterday. can you tell me what it is?". so i told her, and after i felt like maybe i might have changed someone. mayb, even if she never observes, on tisha baav next year sh will think about what i told her. if she does, my mission was accomplished. this whole summer was worth it jus for that.
so...on a lighter note (MUCH lighter.) today me and my sister went on a haunted house tour in washington dc. very amusing! :)
and now for the inal part which iv been dieing to write about:::
HARRYPOTTERHRRYPOTTERHARRYPOTTERHARRYPOTTERHARRYPOTTERHARRYPOTTER....
gaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the seventh book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
me and my sister had preordered the book around pesach time, and when it came to her house we were in baltimore for shabbat. so we got it sunday afternoon (two copies :)) and we opened the package, and then the strangest thing happened. i was holding the book, and i couldnt bring myself to open it up. and then i thought about it....
8.5 years ago, my dad had been doing alot of work in the us. so when he came home for chanukka, i expected one hell of a present. when he gave me two books called harry potter 1 and 2, i wasnt tat happy. i didnt like to read that much, and i had hoped for a better present!! :) but then, i was bored one day, and i opened up the book. it wasnt till a long time after i got them that i did that, but being stuck at home because of a biking accident, there wasntmuch else to do. as soon s i got to the middle i was sucked in to the magical world of those books. i finished the first one as quick as i could, had my sister read me half of the second, and called my father to beg him to bring me the third. after that, i got the next three books in moshava, whih was always pretty funny, and this year i got the seventh one.
i couldnt open it because harry potter is (was :( ) a huge part of me!!! i was an insane fanatic when i was little, and i still like it alot. but now, its over... :( :( :(
so yesterday, when i closed he book (i forced mysef to stretch it out so that i would have something good to read on the fast.) i cried a little. not because of any kind of ending, but because of the fact that a huge part of my childhood is over (i know its sappy but thats what i feel like!!)
so im really tired, and would love to go o bed...good night!!!! love,
vivi :)