I can't
believe my second shabbas is coming up
tomorrow and I still haven't told you about
my first! The days here are so surreal. As
they are happening they seem so long but
once they're over it seems as though they
just began.
Well, Friday
nights walk to shule probably ended with me
being the wettest I have ever been in my
ENTIRE life. It was raining so hard (and I
live in Seattle, I know rain), and then it
began to hail. It was hailing perfectly
round balls of ice. It was kind of cool to
see this beautiful city in a new light. So
far I had only seen it in sunshine and now I
was seeing it in hail, streams in the
street, being SOAKING wet and getting my
friends UGGs so wet that they just dried
yesterday (and Kaitlin- you though yours
were bad at kinnus!). Friday night I went
to a synagogue called Shir Chadash (New
Song) which is an orthodox shule, not to be
confused with Shirah Chadashah. Shir
Chadash only has male leaders, has a
real machitzah but has a lot of ruach from
both sides. It was really nice besides the
fact that when we stood up we left a pool of
water underneath our seats.
Saturday the
weather was better but it was still pretty
freezing. I went to a shule called YaKar.
It was orthodox as well (machitzah and
everything) but it didn't have as much ruach.
There was a really good sermon though, so it
made it worth the walk.
I was slightly
disappointed by the shules that we were
allowed to go to (there were 5 to chose
from) because they were all so American.
Everything here is Americanized! Its crazy
to walk down the street and see absolutely
no Hebrew graffiti, only English.
The rest of
the week has been stressful. It was my
first week of classes. Classes start at 8
and go till 6:35. Programming goes from
6:25-9:30 (and that's on good nights). It is
really exhausting but I still love it. I
really can't complain.
I hope all is
well in North America!
Feel free to
e-mail me with questions, or call me
011-972-52-552-4687.
ps. for
everyone who know Micha Varde, I saw him
while I was on a tiul. Talk about a small
world!
E-mail
Nava Hymowitz! 