I'm so excited for our day off tomorrow! I don't have anything fun planned, but I'm happy I'll get to sleep in tomorrow. Especially since I think I'll be getting up early over the weekend, but it'll be worth it. I have to finish my Holocaust paper bc it's due on Thursday. That's what I'll b doing all day. How exciting....but it really isn't that bad because it's a good class but the part that bugs me is hearing the horrible things that went on. I've known about and learned about the Holocaust from a really young age, but it never gets any easier to hear the horrible atrocities. If anything, it keeps getting harder. I was looking through my Holocaust book and I started crying just looking at some of the pictures. I also cried reading some of the horrible anti-Semitic things that were said by people like Martin Luther and that man who I refuse to speak the name of but he all know who he is(the Austrian douche who is at mostly, if not completely, at fault for the Holocaust). It blows my mind to think that anyone could have such horrible thoughts about a group, or anyone for that matter. It's incredibly hurtful and it makes me just want to run over and tell all those evil people how wrong they are and show them how amazing Judaism and Jews are and how they are so plain stupid to think for a second that they aren't. I could probably go on for ever about this so I will sum this up and say that I hate nazis and skinheads and all of those evil satanic people. Anyway, wish me luck with my paper and I will see you all soon!!

P.S. I have to say, staying after school and sitting on the floor in the hallway with Bubo Liz, grad Liz, Val, Lauren, and Priscilla was a very good time. It was so kum-bah-yah. We started to sing it for a second lol. And Noonan kept coming out to tell us we should go work on college stuff, oh Blecca, how I love her, and she kept telling me to laugh lower bc we were making the AA kids feel jealous. SO FUNNY! Also enjoyed seeing Shudsie today...she's just my favorite person. I had a particularly good time calling her the 29 year old virgin, bc it is so obviously NOT the case! She's awesome. I have to go shopping btw! AH! I need a Rosh outfittttttt.....oh the excitment!!
Ok I'm peacin' for real kids....
Bye!

Omg today is hilarious andrea broke her finger and it looks like she has one of those foam fingers!! And it's only on her middle finger...OH CLASSIC

Hey guys,
today was NOT the greatest day. I feel sick, my head hurts, blah. The one good thing was that the admissions counselor from U of I came to our school and I stayed for a bit after to talk to her wc Noonan advised. So I go up to her and say I just wanted to introduce myself and like the space cadet that I am, I forget to tell her my name. So I felt kind of stupid. Kind of a lot. Have to go do homework and hopefully get to bed early. Night

Not much going on right at this moment. I've taken the evening to de-stress lol. I took a really long nap a while after getting home and woke up like 3 hours later. I had dinner and took a relaxing bath, not sure if that is TMI (too much info) but anyway it has helped. Normally I'd go out and do something but school has me so worked up that I needed a break. I don't have too many plans for the weekend. I plan on doing my million assignments and I'm excited for Slichot services tomorrow in prep for Rosh Hashannah next week. That'll be fun. Until next time! :)

TGIF!!!!

Certain subjects in school are just KILLING me it is so annoying I need and want a break.....!!!!

Today was my first day at service! So I have to admit I was kind of nervous about it at first. Looking back though, I have no idea why because it turned out to be great. Lauren and I got paired up to work (do service) at the food pantry in the old convent lol. So walked over there bc it's so insanely close, and we met the nurse who runs the pantry. Her name is Dona and she is really sweet and attentive. She kind of gave us a run through of what we were supposed to do which is relatively easy because we just have to fill bags with food for the families. It was only my first day, but it was already very eye opening. It honestly just mad me sad because I don't know if I realized how many people actually need the food pantry and how that is their only source of food in some cases. So that makes me sad and I think it's so unfair that not everyone has easy access to one of the most essential and basic needs that we have. The thing that makes me the saddest is thinking about the families that have to come and get their food here. I had a really hard time not overstuffing the bags even though we need to distribute evenly. Actually, I filled every bag to the brim because I feel bad being the one who decides what families can and can't have. I wish we could have the families make lists and write down the things that they need and like the most to make sure we get those in there, as well as how many because if they have larger families they need more. But I told my dad about it and he told me that he will tell the people at the company he works for about it and have them donate bread because big companies always just throw away perfectly fresh and good bread and it is just such a waste. Which reminds me of this documentary I saw on people who go "dumper diving" wc essentially is people who are trying to help the earth and consume less by salvaging food that was thrown away even though there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. Some of the food is still in its original packaging so seeing all the amazing food that they salvaged was mind blowing. And it was clean. It def. has a gross connotation, but it helps create less waste and get good use out of food that is perfectly good and necessary. The other thing that was crazy to me at the pantry was how the food was brand name food. I just figured that a food pantry would have generic brands but they had some of my favorites, including Manischevitz, which is my ALL-TIME favorite and I also found hilarious because it is run by a church (my school). And they had all kinds of Trader Joes and Whole Foods things so that was pretty neat. It made me happy to see that we were giving out food that they might not have been able to get otherwise. That was cool. Also Andy S from Nesiya called me today to let me know that the Nesiya apps are going out within the next week or 2 so to get ready to sign up. I want to do Nesiya so bad I can't even describe it. I will give more deets on that later but now I have to go do my english paper and some other homework.
Peace!

Mr. Mac is killing me. I guess we were supposed to blog last night and I didn't because I also have lots of other homework and forgot to sign on here. I get it but I'm seriously overwhelmed with everything we have to do. I start service today in a little while. We'll be leaving school at 2 and I'm working at the Food Pantry so I'm excited to see what I'll be doing. I'll be done around 4 and after that I'm coming back to school to work on my U of I app w noonan. So I will b home late and anyway I'll jsut spend my night doing all the million hw assignments i have. I'm so tired. More later.