Just a normal day

This will more than likely be one of the most boring posts ever.  Feel free to stop reading here.

I woke up this morning and went to volunteering, where many of the kids didn't care whatsoever to learn English.  Near the end of the day, though, I got to work one-on-one with a kid who spoke almost no English but really wanted to learn; which was a much more meaningful experience for me.  He seemed entranced with the idea of trying to learn English, despite his minimal knowledge, and I was pleased to be able to help him in any way I could.

I returned home and Tomer and I went to Super Douche to buy groceries.  On the way there, we saw the witch outside of the Bat Yam police station (the old lady who wears a hat with an excessively long brim and never leaves the front of the police station, just staring at you with eyes and a wicked smile that say "Have a good day...IN HELL!"), and Tomer made the poor choice of trying to talk to her.  He semi-waved (downwards) and said "Yom tov," "good day."  Instead of responding, she simply stared at him, and rotated her head without breaking eye contact until he and I turned the corner.  I am convinced he is now sterile.

Then we came back and cleaned the apartment for a mifgash dira with Noa, our madricha, during which she talked to each of us individually about our families.  Honestly, sometimes I think the other madrichim have absolutely no clue what they're doing.  All my friends tell me stories about what idiots their madrichim are, but Noa seems to know what she's doing.

I then went to Ulpan, and read, in Hebrew, about why Obama shouldn't have won the Nobel Peace Prize (something I largely agree with).  Class was, as usual, fairly hard.

Then we had z'man madrich with Noa again, when we all got the schedules for the week and she tried to do a peulah with us about the parsha that involved only us reading the parsha in English.  It was incredibly boring and a failure, I made her promise to actually prepare a paper for discussion next week.  After dinner, I went to erev tzofim, which was pretty much a Hebrew trivia game that my team won.  It was reasonably fun.

Nathan, Miki, Adi and I then went to the beach to meet one of Nathan's friends from home.  We ate some Arlekino ice cream, and that was pretty much my night.  We went back to the courtyard briefly, but nothing was really going on, so we all parted ways.  I should really get to bed, tomorrow is "yom sport" (sports day), and I'm signed up for everything.  I wish you a good night!