Well I'm in Israel. Today is one of the last days I'm here and I'm so depressed about it. I love it here and I don't want to leave. Doing Gadna (a week of boot camp with the Israeli army) was really hard but it's been so amazing. I'm writing on Rotem's (my host Israeli) computer. We had a week of touring and then a week in Kfar Saba of volunteering with disabled children and at hospitals and doing aid work for the North. Last week was Gadna which was fun other than the sprained wrist. I really don't want to leave. I feel so comfortable here. I really haven't been as happy as I've been these last three weeks since third grade. It's really hot here but it hasn't rained once and the sky is always blue which is nice. Living with Rotem has been amazing. Her family (she has a younger sister and her parents) are so nice and her mom says that cooking for a celiac is really easy. I feel like a third daughter with them. The other people in the program are great too. I've gotten so close to the Israelis. Last night was so amazing. We went to Naty's house (one of our guides, sort of a cross between a hippie and a drill sergeant). She lives in this tiny house (two rooms and a bathroom) on a big farm. She has gay cows outside her house that hump each other all the time. We went there and had a bbq and played guitar and sang and just reconnected and it was amazing. Tonight we are going to Carine-Belle's house for dinner and Kiddush tonight (she's hosting Ben Rosen) and then everybody's coming here for a big party (Rotem's the only one who has a house instead of an apartment). It should be amazing.

I'm coming home on Saturday night so I guess I'll get home on Sunday. It's going to be depressing to leave but this experience has been one of the most amazing I've ever had. I'm so happy that i decided to do this.

-taken from dianahacker.com's thesis comparing activity:

The Sex Pistols could not have succeeded without singer and lyricist Johnny Rotten, who provided the stage presence, poetry, and authentic working-class rage that galvanized the group's young English audiences.

 vs.

The Sex Pistols were very popular with young English audiences, and the singer and lyricist Johnny Rotten was very important to their success.

Diana Hacker just referenced the Sex Pistols? what has happened to the world? 

Exam study=overly stressed out sophie. grrr for biology.

And now for some Jewish humor:

According to the Jewish calendar, the year is 5765.
According to the Chinese calendar, the year is 4702.
That means that for 1,063 years the Jewish people went without Chinese
food.
These were known as the Dark Ages.

first day back from spring break and my homework is:

• Research on the Stonewall uprising
• Research on Alla Nazimova+ start on digital storytelling project  
• Secondary sources (oops), pages 1-25 in Death of a Salesman, decide whether I want to switch and do my paper on a less graphic and violent book, start notecards
• math homework
• bio questions (even) and read chapter 38

GRRRR! too many damn research papers

**EDIT**

Digital storytelling project=a movie and a powerpoint's love child

Spring Break. I'm in Pennsylvania with my crazy family and my mom. Getting up at 5:30 AM the first day of break, and then driving for seven hours was kinda shitty. We had good music though, thanks to my cd burner deciding to work again. I have over a day of music on my itunes now, by the way. Some of it is really random though, like the Hindu chants that I downloaded because they are amazing. I saw the second episode of Big Love, though it was akward because my Grandmother walked in during this really loud sex scene. It was a better episode than the pilot, and so I will keep watching, even though everybody keeps saying how creepy it is because **GASP** it's about Polygamy. My personal feeling about polygamy is that I don't like it. I don't think it's fair to anybody. At the same time, I get seriously offended and pissed off when people say they thing Homosexuality is wrong, so who am I to judge how other people live. Seriously if I expect people to be open to "alternative lifestyles" then I should be open to how people want to live. I was, however, really creeped out by the 14 year old girl married to the really old guy who everybody called "The Prophet". 

On antother note, Zoe introduced me to the music of Chris Purkeka, who is amazing. Her music is what has been keeping me sane for the last few days.