Thursday February 25th

Went to the first day of my internship training this morning. There are 6 of us interns from the Hebrew U program so someone sent out an email last night that we should all go together so we all met at 1015 ad went together. Good thing because I couldnt remember where the go! The 5 other girls are really nice-- 1 of them, Rachel, I am literally in EVERY SINGLE class in so we laugh all the time. She is blonde and the definition of a ditz but she is really sweet. So we had a 2 hour training today with our supervisor, Gal. Shes really really sweet we all love her. She gave us a tour, showed us to budget, what they spend their money on each year, how they make their money back through funsraising and donors and she talked to us about our assignments for the year. Basically we are going to have a group project for the 6 of us + an individual project in order to raise money for the organization. The group project is going to be some sort of event that we need to design, work on, and make happen before we leave. Then the individual project is antyhing we want to research and do for the entire semester in order to raise money. They want someone to try and research international corporations and work with them to get money and a bunch of other things btu we are basically free to do what we want. Because I put up a fight about Sundays, we are not going to meet on sundays (except this sunday we have to). Our group meetings with Gal will be thursdays at the same time 11. Then we will have to come in once a week and meet with her. Then we will have to meet with eachother at some point of the week to work on the group project. Then we are free to do the research part of our own project at home, so I dont think we actually have to be at the center for that long. I think we can do a majority of the work from cammpus which I am excited about. We are meeting this sunday again for another training. We are all going to tel aviv from saturday to sunday for purium but we promised we would be back by 2. Then no more sundays afer this, yayay!!

After the training, went to get falafel with 2 of the interns and went back to campus because the 3 of us had class. I had the American Jew and The Israeli Jew class today. We watched a really old black and white movie called Hester Street. It was all about the migration of Jews from Russia to the lower east side. It was really interesting!

Then had a meeting with the director of the school to talk about my classes. I realllyyy wanted to get into that special grad school class-- Decision Making--- but it starts at 430 on the Givat Ramm campus and I have class until 4:00 so I wouldnt be able to get there in time :( So I am back to neuroeconomics--- blahhh soooo boring! He is trying to help me get Psych credit for my internship-- so maybe maybe maybee I can get credit for that and nottt have to take it, but our psych department is so strict I doubt they would count this as an upper level. But in the rare chance that they did- I can drop neuroscience and I know this is crazy, but I would want to pick up another internship program called the JESNA program. Its a special jewish learning internship where you go to a 4 hour class all about jewish education in america, then you do an internship in israel for about 3-5 hours a week doing jewish education things. Someone is working in a special needs school, someone else is working with the high school students that are spending a year here, etc... sounds soooo interesting I really really want to do it. The school normally doesnt let you do 2 internships but the guy said he would probabaly let me so I am going to look into it.

raining and grossss here!!

Ordered pizza for the first time today with roomies. Definitly not New York pizzza!