Monday, August 31, 2009

Last night at home

So the excitement is brimming over the edge for me right now. In 12 hours from now I'll be saying good-bye to the 'rents at the airport, off to begin a crazy new adventure in the land of Is-ra-el. Sonia and Narin are over at my house at the moment, saying their good-byes. It's hard to focus. I just want to fast forward these next 12 hours or so until I'm on the plane. I've said good-bye to everyone who merits a good-bye, I've packed my bag, I'm ready to go... I got my swim trunks, and my flippy-floppies. While I'm in Israel you're at Kinko's straight-flipping copies. Yeah, so moving on from that song... I don't really have much to say. Narin and Sonia are distracting me. It's all good. My next update will be from Israel! Yeaaaaaaaaaaah buddy.

-E

Friday, August 28, 2009

Yo Yo!

So after I told somebody what I was doing instead of going to college, she exclaimed, "That sounds amazing! You should keep a blog!" Lo and behold, here's my blog! I'll try and update it at least once a week.

I leave for Workshop in about four and a half days! Crazy... I've been thinking about going on Workshop ever since I started going to camp in 2000, seeing my sister, three cousins, and countless others all go to Israel after high school, and now the day's finally here! I have a lot of mixed emotions going into it: On one hand, I'm incredibly excited. It's going to be an awesome year on so many levels. I'm also sad that this means that my life after high school is beginning. I can no longer call San Francisco my home for 12 months of the year, which is really unfortunate. But putting that aside, I can't wait to board the plane from SFO to JFK, and then meet up with the rest of 59 and fly to Israel.

At dinner today, Noey asked me what am I most looking forward to on Workshop. Immediately about 20 things popped into my mind, so I just replied with a blatantly inefficient, "Everything about it!" Those three words come nowhere close to describing the absurd conglomeration of facets on Workshop that I am looking forward to. I think that it will be an incredible experience, both fun and really, really rewarding.

That's all for now though! I should pack soon.

-E