East Coast Tour Review

Exciting points of my trip:

- Doing the crossword with my Bubbe. (Really, it was exciting!)

- Snuggling with Gypsy and RoPo

- Dancing in the rain with Skversk

- Aharon walking down the aisle at his sister's wedding to the theme song for Darth Vader

- Aunt Z cake at Shabbat dinner

- Catching the (potentially swine) flu from my lovely brother

- Going to the MFA in Boston and the NGA in DC (twice!)

- Having Izzy say my name, even if he doesnt remember the countless hours we spent together

- Visiting my elementary/middle/high school teachers who still love me

- All the cries of "What are you doing here?" when I walked into Hillel

- Explaining Israel to the fourth graders at my Aunt's NH elementary school

- Free tickets to "Taming of the Shrew" at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC

- Driving up and down the east coast

- Grabbing beers in Washington Circle with Shawn and Michael

- Super fancy meat dinner with the ladies

- Rosh Hashana with mi familia

Things in America I had really missed:

- My momma's cooking

- Target

- Nut House Pizza

- The UMD art department

- Maariv behind McKeldin Library

- Snuggling with Gypsy and RoPo

- DC

- Driving up and down the east coast

- How everyone has dogs

- My family

- My friends

- Introducing my friends to the craziness that is my family

Why I am glad to be back in Israel:

- Chummus

- Im home.

Shana Tova!

It has been so long and I hope you all pardon me for replacing my emails with my presence in America (I like to think I am equally entertaining in person). It has been such a wonderful trip and I am so happy I got to see so many of you and catch up on what is going on in your lives! (I have also found it much easier to avoid repeating the same stories as you all have already read them in my emails).
I am still in the States for a few more days, partying it up in the mary land but I wanted to send out a quick word before the Jewish New Year. I personally feel very much on the brink of something new and exciting, a whole new adventure that I am only slightly terrified of. I dont really know much about it or what will come in the next year, but I am ok with that. I know so many of you are going through what I have deemed the pre-life crisis and the coming year is full of uncertainties and worries. And those of you who didnt just graduate into the highest unemployment rate among college grads since 1982 are probably facing uncertainties and worries of your own.
I wish you all a new year where those uncertainties become more eye opening, if not more clear. Where those worries become less prevalent if not less present. Where nervousness becomes excitement and strangers become friends. May you embrace whatever changes life is throwing at you and find happiness in every aspect of your life. And of course may you stay safe and healthy and not contract swine flu.