Prepare for the most exciting thing that's happened to me lately!

Guess who just passed her driving test this week? Hee hee!
That was over 2 years, 124 lessons, 2 theories and 4 tests. Now I'm done with all of it. I drove home tonight and I had so much fun. Driving an automatic takes some getting used to- it's those long roads where you drive really fast that make you want to keep shifting. Oh well.
So I was basically smiling from Tuesday onward. I'm just so happy! I've been working for this for so so long and with no results, so it was really about time. Actually, my reaction made it seem to me that I really just stopped believing it would ever happen.
So that's the really big news. Next to that, there wasn't really much going on over the past couple of weeks. I was in Ariel last Shabbat (hence the lack of post) but I don't think I'll be there again for a good few weeks. Last weekend was actually a nightmare, because it involved a massive amount of traveling (I was home Thursday night and Saturday night).
Ummm, what else? School is status quo, so I'm fine... We had an activity for Tu Bishvat on Tuesday that went well... That's about it.
I'm still smiling!
Shabbat Shalom!

Awimbawambawe

So, I missed last week's weekly post because I had to get back to Ariel and I had basically no time, so let me catch up on this and last week:

• Last Sunday I got my first ever traffic ticket. No, I don't have a liscense yet, but I got fined 100 Shekel for crossing the street at a red light. There are too many injuries from accidents like that, so they don't give warnings, said the cop. At the time, I was frustrated because she was right, it was completely my fault and there was nobody to blame but myself. Not to mention that one of my roommates had gotten a ticket for the same reason in the same place two weeks before, and I just didn't learn from her mistake. Later that day, however, I was laughing about it and showing off my ticket to the girls in my apartment. And I've definitely learned my lesson. I won't be crossing anything with a red light for quite some time now.
• On Wednesday of that week I went to a wedding. I don't go to weddings much because my friends haven't started getting married yet (soon, but not yet...) and this wedding wasn't actually for a friend of mine. The bride had converted to Judaism that week and the Netzarim community (a community from Gush Katif that has partially resettled in Ariel) made her a wedding. They asked everyone to come because there weren't a lot of friends or family there. It was kind of nice, except that we weren't invited for the food part (oh well) and it appeared that the bride and the groom had no idea what was going on. But it really was a special wedding, and probably one of the smallest I'll ever attend...
• Yesterday I had to go to the doctor in Yerushalayim, and I ended up doing massive and excessive amounts of walking (with my big Sherut bag on my back) due mainly to Bush's visit here and possibly a little bit to my own stupidity. But just a bit.
• That day off was really really awesome. I'm allowed 14 and this was the first one I've used. I think I deserved it, and it was just wonderful. I basically just did stuff like laundry today and that cleared up my weekend, but it was just so great to be home.
• This afternoon, I think the very foundation of my beliefs was shaken. I found out that the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was not just a part of the music in The Lion King. It was actually a pop song in the 60's. I'm shocked. I wonder how many kids in my generation heard the song on last week's MuggleCast and experienced the same thing. Or am I just that ignorant? On the other hand, it did clear up for me why the fun version of the song (as appears in the below video, arguably the best scene in the history of Friends) is never on the Lion King soundtracks...
  
• Tonight I went to a Sheva Brachot for my cousin who got married last week in New York. It was great... I love my family, and it's good that we have these things once in awhile...
• After the Sheva Brachot we went to a production of The Mikado. I really don't like Gilbert and Sullivan much- their music is totally not my type and the story line was also weird. Whatever, the last time I saw one of their things was The Pirates of Penzance four years ago. I didn't like that either. Maybe in four years I'll try again. Maybe I'll like it. Maybe I won't.

And on that positive note, it's very late and I need to sleep a bit even if I'm not working tomorrow. Shabbat Shalom! (Oh, I forgot to mention that the big question on my mind these days is what to do next year. But that's another story for another day.)

Happy Wednesday!

I'm only blogging now because it's cool that I can blog on a Wednesday. I can't blog during the week because Blogger is blocked from the computers at my school. But now it's Wednesday night, and I'm blogging (do I use the word blog way too often on here?) because my week ended early. I'm taking the day off tomorrow- my first vacation day of the year! So I'll be back tomorrow with a more normal post, even though it won't be Wednesday anymore. But I'll be more awake then (wait till I tell you what happened to me today...) and there will be more details about what's going on in my life.

I love Jo!

Oh, look. I forgot to post again. And then I'm doing my routine check up on jkrowling.com, and what do I find? Her door is open with a family tree. The full Weasley family tree, the one that was edited out of the epilogue!
OK, so the names of all of the Weasley grandchildren isn't really the most special thing in the world, but it definitely made me happy. And wow, I really do write a lot about Harry Potter on here. But hey, it makes me happy.
Aaargh. I am so not happy with this blog lately. This needs a lot of work.
What else happened this week? My first-ever train ride in Israel. It was cool. Plus I'm planning another one this coming week.
I'm tired. Maybe I'll go to sleep soon...
Have a good week!

Wow.

It's really really really late, and I need to go to bed. But I just needed to say hi to my blog, to say that my little brother Noam has successfully convinced me to turn 19 instead of remaining 18 for another year, which I really wanted to do because 19 is boring. I'm 19, people, and it's not so bad. I still want to go to Antarctica and really want to research it more, and right now I'm listening to what just may be the best PotterCast ever. Just maybe. I may want to mention that Jo is on this episode. Really. Imagine being teased by and sharing jokes with her. This is so, so cool.
I should really get to sleep.
BTW, This post is so short and random and late because I had to work yesterday, which means that my weekend is really really short. And I had a really fun family birthday party tonight, which was great. And I've used the word "really" way too many times in this post. Really.

Weekly-ish update, and Antarctica.

I'll make this quick because I need to leave in about half an hour for Ariel. I'll be there for Shabbat...
There's not really much news to report, unless you count my brand new fixation with Antarctica. I really, really, really want to go there! I think it's mainly because nobody ever goes there. I thought about it, and I realized that it's the only continent where I don't even know anyone who's been there. That's a lot of the appeal. And the fact that it's so far from everything, and it's all white, and the wildlife is amazing. Seriously, I think I'd say that, since the only way to get there is on a cruise, it's probably the coolest place you can cruise to. Wouldn't you think so?
Realistically, I'll probably never get there. I don't know when I'd go, and it will probably cost me something like $5000 at least. But I can dream, right? And maybe someday I'll have enough money...

Soooo.

Chanukah's almost over! There's not much to report. I was in Ariel last night for some kind of Chanukah party/performance, which was OK. Today we went to an underground bullet factory and a science museum in Rechovot with the cousins. That was pretty cool. Tomorrow is the big shopping day, I don't know exactly where (but I trust those who do) and then on Thursday it's back to work. :-)

Now for a story, because I have nothing else to say:

So this bullet factory was illegal, because it was built at the time when the British ruled here, and they didn't want anyone to manufacture ammunition because they wanted to feel like they were in charge. So the smart Jews went and built a factory under a Kibbutz. One day, the Brits came to the Kibbutz on a surprise inspection visit. The Kibbutzniks needed time to cover everything up and to hide all traces of the factory, so they invited the Brits into their dining room for food and beer as a way of stalling. The Brits complained, however, that the beer wasn't cold. So the (again, smart) Jews said, "Well, if you wanted your beer to be cold, you should have told us you were coming." And so it was from that day on. The Brits got their cold beer, the Jews got the advance warning about their inspections, and everyone was happy. And the factory survived 3 years (I think) until our State was founded without ever being discovered by the British.