Patience

I have really been working on my patience this trip. I am usually very controlling and pushy and fast paced when it comes to travel and stuff of the sorts. But this time I swore I would just let things come and try not to control as much and its been working pretty well. I have barely complained because with that perspective there is not much to complain about. Until today however after a long night of stress and such an early morning were I just HAD to go get a bagel because this Neve food ( white bread and Hot Pink Jelly) is killing me slowly. Then we had class. The first one of course I was dozing and the second R'Marcus...my favorite, talk on "Alef" and other Torah secrets. Then it was my last meeting with Shira, I can't believe time went so fast...but when doesn't it...We exchanged contact info so she can be my Israel go to, to answer questions via email. The last class had to do with college campuses and Anti-Semitism. I had no idea other schools like UCSD and Northridge have problems like CSUF and Irvine. We are never alone. It's comforting to know that there are definite ways to combat peacefully. And that this issue is not going unnoticed.

After a quick lunch I contemplated not going cave crawling due to the heat and my exhaustion and the little things I had to do in town. But then I realized I'M IN ISRAEL!!!!! I gotta go! And so I went only to get to the caves, wait for 30 minutes for a group before us to go through and then somehow we decided we didn't want to wait...so we left and went to see a viewpoint. This actually pissed me off! I was not okay with this! I couldn't for some reason get over it...PATIENCE...gone...So no caves. I guess this is just another part of a higher plan....so to make things a little better we had a "nice" dinner...bread...and actually a really nice concert with American/Jewish music. Then I was off to Ben Yahuda, to get some shecks finally and check the email. So in the end it was all okay and I guesss the stress was for nothing. Talking to Cat and Soph really helped too. Now I am off to bed because I need to catch up on sleep....

Didn't I just tell you guys that I have been patient and not complianing....wellll....we all have our moments