School, soup kitchen, lots of meetings, and ITALY

Wednesday was pretty much just a normal day: school, hung out, went to bed.  Thursday, however, was a really, really interesting day.  It started at 9:30 a.m. when I went to a soup kitchen with my friend Becca.  We cut raw potatoes into french fry size for about an hour and a half and then spent the last half hour before we had to go to class opening packages of frozen chicken.  My hands got really cold.  It was so much fun though!  There were so many people from all over the world volunteering there, and everyone was talking and just having a good time.  Sometimes they even offered us snacks, which I thought was weird, so I didn't eat any.  I think I am going to do that every Thursday from now on.  They don't start serving the food until 12, but by then I have to go to class, so Becca and I might go back on some Sundays so we can serve.

After the soup kitchen, we went to school.  I had a huge Hebrew test, which was kind of hard but I studied a lot (I still might not have done well but I tried my best), then I went to the gym, and then I had Freshman Writing.  After Freshman Writing I went back to Beit Nativ and ate dinner.  Then at 7 we had a short football meeting.  We couldn't have practice because it was rainy and cold outside, so we just talked about the team.  Then at 7:30 I went to a meeting about this project going on about Ethiopian Jewry.  Nativ is setting up a table right on the corner of Ben Yehuda and King George Streets and trying to get people to sign a petition to get the Israeli Government to check out the Jewish roots of a small Jewish community left in Ethiopia.  It should be a lot of fun and will hopefully make a difference, even if that difference is only educating more people on the issue.

After the Ethiopia meeting I watched half of Liar Liar, hung out for a while, and then BOOKED MY FLIGHT TO ITALY FOR WINTER BREAK!!!!  I'm going with 3 friends from January 16-27!!  I'm so excited!  Now that we have our flights we are going to start figuring out everything we want to do- it's going to be amazing!!

After I booked my flight, I went to bed.  Today we are going to Yerucham for Shabbat!!  Yerucham is the place where I am going to be from January-May, so I hope I like it!!  I'll let you know how it is.

Shabbat Shalom!

-Sarah