tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17397708187481892002009-12-31T08:37:07.195-08:00Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13428394656069754613payitforward18@gmail.comBlogger171125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739770818748189200.post-83065352185810694282009-03-29T01:10:00.000-07:002009-08-28T14:51:49.731-07:00

Places I have a sudden odd urge to visit:EnglandAlaskaIcelandThings on my fake to-do list:Roadtrip through the Pacific Coast Highway.Annoying remarks:So are you dating? What are you looking for? Will you cover your hair?No, I plan on becoming a nude artist and marrying the guy who paints me best. (Yes, I'll probably get up tomorrow morning, remember this, and go red with humiliation for posting

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Last week I explained to a high school boy that Moses was in fact NOT G-d.This morning, twenty children yelled out at me that this weeks parshah was Tetzaveh and then proceeded to scream out exactly how the Kohen Gadol dressed. (This was completely foreign to me considering my almost complete immersion in the environment mentioned in line one. I was so stunned it took me a bit to respond.)This

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Menashe Shai ben Shoshana...hurt in Gaza.

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Meet Rachel.Hello, Rachel.Rachel is a nomad.Oh, really? How nice. My uncle was a nomad.Oh, really? How nice.Silence.Er, Rachel, you don't look like a nomad.I don't look like a madman either.Madmen-Nomad combos typically reek of hobo, don't you think?But of course.You don't look like a hobo.How kind of you. I'll let myself know that as soon as I see her.... Have you seen me? I can't seem to find

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Looks like someone I know has been reading my blog.I feel like hiding all of my old posts. (But then again, you read them all already anyway.)And I know you can't possibly understand why I cringe at the thought of having someone I know read this. So... whatever. I don't want to bother trying to explain it at risk of mistakenly sounding overly dramatic.Maybe I'll block this blog. Or delete it. Or

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It amazes me to no end that I just managed to use Microsoft Excel... the fancy way. Anyone here who isn't tech-savvy knows what I mean. "Fancy way" means auto-fill and all that other...well, fancy stuff that gets you out of completing a ton of plug-'em-in formulas. Oh, and I did math problems, thankyouverymuch. Nice long stoichiometric problems intertwined with a whole bunch of other math-y stuff

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... and that's what I did today!Guess who's a new morah!? I just landed a job at a Hebrew school for kids who attend public school. Today was my first day. And I am on a high.The teachers scrambled to give me all their "slower" students who slow down the pace of the rest of the class. The first teacher gave me a group of five high school boys (late junior high/early high school) who barely knew

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I woke up this morning with my sister's head hanging over me as she searched for traces of respiration. "Rachel, are you breathing?"She does that every once in a while when she feels I'm sleeping in an unflinching silence that's uncharacteristic of living beings. She invades my space in that sort of way where she brings her face an inch away from mine and wakes me up with a heaping dose of

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I want to live in Israel.I want to live in Yerushalayim.I want to live in the Ir Ha'atikah.I want to be surrounded by Jerusalem stone.I want to stand pressed to the Kotel.I want the Beit Hamikdash to be there.I want to deserve it.

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I'm making an effort to report here news of incredible importance, as equivalent to that reported by the evening news stations. Today's happenings in the life of Rachel:1. If any of you are aware of a certain definition the term "Khara" may hold, I'm sure you will agree with me that it's not a proper name for a person. Yet I will assure you that there is indeed a girl in this world named Khara. I

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I'm not an expert when it comes to Bob Dylan's music, but...Check out these Israeli re-makes (just considering the music itself, not the lyrics):Shlomi Shaban- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxZEi1ywTooBob Dylan- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ2pJnxJUKI&feature=related(Shaban is... wow.)And...Aviv Geffen- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm7w49TPMic&feature=relatedBob Dylan- http://

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Over time I have had a mental list of things I want to do growing in my head. Besides for the obvious goals (such as getting married and successfully raising a family), I have some other things I'm hoping to get around to...although some (or, most) of them I'll most likely not get to. Nice hoping.Anyway, the list has been getting longer and in an attempt to remember them I'm going to start

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The Free Hugs campaign has been going on worldwide. I especially enjoyed watching this one in Tel Aviv. (And I absolutely love Daniel Salomon's song here.)http://youtube.com/watch?v=TroAeYtRKWQ

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You know the world's insane when you come across a news article headlined "Fearful Iraqi hairdressers go underground." It's pathetic....But women rock. :)Check it out: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/iraq/2004093864_iraqsalons27.html

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So there I was again. Long class over, me starving for lunch, and a long walk ahead across campus to my parking structure. The usual.Somewhere along that path, I slowed down (all the sugar from the sufganiyot was probably weighing me down). For the first time I took my eyes off my target (the tunnel leading to the parking structure ahead) and I noticed a breathtaking garden lining the road beside

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Do you know how real life can start feeling stuffy? Blogs can too.Goodbye... I think.

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I woke up near midnight. It's now 2:27 am.I'm bored.

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I have a tendency to get over-excited about things. Now I'm sort of bored of Sabar's Hebrew class... surprisingly, I think I should be in the advanced or conversational Hebrew course. (My Israeli friend has been trying to convince me I underestimate myself all too often. Ppgh... Ya, I'm not sure what that's supposed to sound out either.) But I think I'm gonna just stick it out... I won't die if I

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Another weird day.A few of us had pizza delivered to class. We then sat there with a large box waiting for break... and then we sat outside on the floor by a construction site and devoured it.One of the classes was history of Jewish women. Interesting enough, right? Wrong. Somehow it turned into a kallah class when several boys took incredible interest in the mikveh... and all the things that go

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What a day.First off- anyone else here ever wake up in the middle of the night and wish it were morning already because they're tired of sleeping? This usually happens if I go to sleep at 9 or 10 for whatever reason. I went to sleep at 11 (still early, but okay) and was up at 1:15 (a.m.) bored of sleeping. Typical, but... huh.Enough with the small talk. Sabar. This morning. I. Saw. Sabar. My

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I memorized the first line of Shema.I said the first paragraph.I did this before my drivers test. I got my license.Forget how frustrating some parts of my job could be (mostly, my boss)... these kids rock.

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Monkeys evolved from coconuts. Of this I'm sure.

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Friend studied last year in Oxford. .Visited her today. .Somehow, a small bundle of British currency became a point of interest/amusement/entertainment for us. (I took a look at one coin sitting in front of me and got overly-excited to discover 'twas a "pence.").Pictured above is British money... the pence and the pound. (Yes, 'tis more than just the mythical object we hear of in classics.).

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The bus driver was a creep. He thought he was dropping us off at LAX. I then had to print out the correct directions for him. He mad-dogged all my kids the entire ride over. He pulled over to the side of the freeway to yell at them- I know they didn't deserve it. He parked behind the hotel- insisting he couldn't go to the parking lot (*lazy*)- and I had to make a confusing treck around a large

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Guess who just got herself into bus duty tonight?Mmhmm.In my good fortune I got (no, I actually accepted with a smile) the task of chaperoning (by myself) the students to and from the annual banquet.Galit recommended I take my shot gun along.

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