The Lovely Month of May

I've been so busy so I haven't written in ages! I'm sorry!

Thursday 4/23:
Eyal and a bunch of Nativers and I went to see a free concert (Balkan Beat Boxer) in Tel Aviv and then we slept on the beach. It was so much fun!!!

Friday 4/24-Saturday 4/25:
I spent shabbat with my friend Emily at Tovik and Shimon's. All 3 of their sons were home which was a lot of fun, and they just got Rockband, so we played a lot of that. It was a lovely, relaxing weekend, with wonderful food.

Sunday 4/26-Monday 4/27:
Regular gan days... except Monday night was Erev Yom HaZikaron, so we had a really moving ceremony for that. The countrywide siren went off at 8 p.m. Also Sunday night Jake and I went to see Boaz Kaplan's band perform in Sde Boker. They played Balkan music and it was really lively and fun!

Tuesday 4/28:
We went to Har Herzl in Jerusalem for a ceremony for Yom HaZikaron. There were thousands and thousands of people there, and they gave out flowers to put on the graves. A bunch of famous politicians spoke and they said some prayers. I spent most of my time at the graves of Michael Levin and Tal Berdugo, my friend Daniel's cousin who died. After that, we went back to Agron for a session and then we moved into Yom Ha'Atzmaut!! I went out to dinner with Todd Zeff at Caffit, and then we went to services at Shirah Hadasha, and the transition from sad to extremely happy was so interesting. It was such a fun night! I met up with my friends and we walked around the center of the city going from free concert to free concert, and we ended the night at a huge Israeli dance fest. Wow. I can't really even explain how amazing it was.

Wednesday 4/29:
Nativ-wide BBQ. So much fun!!! There was also this live museum near Ben Yehuda of Israel's history that was really cool. Then we went back to Yerucham and all crashed because we were exhausted.

Thursday 4/30:
Regular gan day. After gan I hung out in Be'er Sheva for a little and then went to Jerusalem to hang out for the night.

Friday 5/1-Saturday 5/2:
Spent shabbat with Ashley and Keren at Arik and Yael's. It was really great. We went for a walk around the area on Saturday which was really nice.

Sunday 5/3-Monday 5/4:
Regular gan days.

Tuesday 5/5-today:
Israel advocacy seminar with the David Project. It was actually really fun, and I definitely learned a lot. I've also been working on the yearbook a lot which was due today so it could be printed in time, but we got it done!!

So that's about all. I might have forgotten some stuff so I'll try and think really hard and add things in if necessary. This is probably my second to last post. Weird.

-Sarah