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The Angry Leavers

The Angry Leavers

You can’t make me leave!!

Some­how, my time here is com­ing to an end. My back­pack is packed, my flights are booked, and tomor­row I start adven­ture #2. From Rabat, I go to Asi­lah and then to Seville to pick up Kyle and hang out in Spain. Then, we’re going to the Sahara desert, climb­ing the tallest moun­tain in North Africa, and head­ing to Agadir for one day of beach­ing before hit­ting up Europe. There, we plan to go to Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, and Barcelona, and after that, I’ll be head­ing to India for about a month doing a research/intern posi­tion with an orga­ni­za­tion called Group­shot.

Things are going to be a lit­tle dif­fer­ent on this blog; in fact, in a cul­mi­nat­ing slideshow my pro­gram put together to high­light our semester’s mishaps, my com­puter exploded in a burst of unzwee­ness and, well, hasn’t turned on since. So I’ll be updat­ing this from wher­ever I can, mean­ing no pic­tures until I get back in the States and hope­fully fig­ure out my computer’s sit­u­a­tion in 1.5 months. Oops. But enough about anger. Let’s reflect.

May 11, 2012 1 comment Read More
David Explains It All

David Explains It All

Melissa Joan Hart from Clarissa Explains It All

The trendy star of Clarissa Explains It All

Sim­i­lar to my hazy mem­ory of the hit teen sit­com, I am rel­a­tively in the dark about what will be hap­pen­ing once I board a plane at 5 PM this com­ing Sun­day. Sure, my Birthright coor­di­na­tors have done an excel­lent job send­ing me exten­sive e-mails high­light­ing the impor­tance of pur­chas­ing a fanny pack/money belt com­bi­na­tion and list­ing all of the cool places we’ll be vis­it­ing. It’s just a lot to take in. I have absolutely no idea how these two experiences—Israel, let alone Morocco, espe­cially being back-to-back—will be. But my phi­los­o­phy is that if Melissa Joan Hart as Clarissa Dar­ling could sur­vive and thrive from mid­dle school all the way to high school, I can sur­vive and thrive in Israel and beyond. Right?

I leave the first day of 2012. Sun­day morn­ing, my mother will be dri­ving my brother and me to New York City, where I will be deposited at JFK in an attempt to find my Birthright group. I will be with­out a phone and am expect­ing most things to go wrong. But that makes it more excit­ing. Then, I will board a plane for six hours, have a quick lay­over, and hop back in the air only to land four hours later in Ben Gurion Air­port, ready for Jew­ish adven­tures. (Click “Read More”)

December 31, 2011 6 comments Read More