Sunday March 21

Fun weekend up north!

We left friday morning at 9 am for our random weekend up north with a rabbi from the conservative movement at the fuchsberg center. I think I mentioned in the last post, there was a flyer ciruclating around the rothberg center about this shabbaton weekend and the twins happened to see it so we all signed up for it. Then I got lauren and hannah to sign up. Then about 12 girls from their floor signed up also. When we got on the bus it was literally like the 20 of us girls + these like russian immigrants who were married and had children and little kids running arounf the bus. It was a really really strange combination. They didnt speak a word of english- only hebrew and russian, so we had noooo interaction with them.

On the way up to the Galilel, we stopped at the Drews village (defiitly isnt spelled like that). Its this tiny tiny village in a random part of the north with 2 streets of touristy shopping that is known to be like the cheapestttttttin israel. So we stopped there for like 1 1/2 hours. The drews like arent jewish, they are this weird tribe and they are soooo annoying. They kept chasing you into stores, and making you come see all their merchandise, then they would chase you around the store and try and convince you how their stuff was the best and try to make all these deals with you. SOO ANNOYING. I was looking at this bowl and before I knew it, they took it and stared wrapping it up as if I was going to buy it when I didnt even say yes, I was just looking at it--- just to piss them off I told them I didnt want it. I bought 2 prety scarfs, literally all the girls wee jus buying a million scarfs. They had soooo many and they were so cheap so I bought 2, that was about it. Then we got back on the bus and drove to the kibbutz.

On the way up to the kibbutz we made a stop at this stand in the woods that was making this special thing thats like known up tere. They take a fresh pita and fill it with this special cheese andoils, then they grill it. SO we stopped there and got some of those, I didnt like th cheese.

Then we got to the kibbutz. It was my first time on a kibbutz. It smelled like a farm. It was called Kibbutz Hannaton, dont know the exac spelling. And its the biggest dairy farm. They have 450 cows and make the milk for the magnum ice cream bars. We stayed in these huge rooms that fit 6 people but for some reason they only wanted 3 in a room so we wouldnt be too "crammed", but my room had 4 and it was hugeee.. It was me, rosie, this girl Elana and Sigal who went to schecter with all my usy friends. We were all a littl dissapointed by the jammed schedule for the weekend. It was literally a usy weekend filled with praying and learning sessions, like no free time, sort of annoying. So first we had "orientation" for the 20 of us girls that we already knew, then we had learning groups, then we prayed with the entire kibbutx in their temple which was kind of cool, then we had shabbat dinner which I thought was really good, then we had learning groups and an oenig. Wasnt quite what we were expecting, but the rabbi kept saying its a highly subsidzed weekend so there has to be learning.... blahhhh... then we all just hung out for a while and went to sleep pretty early. The rabbi kept saying we had to go to services at 9 am but then he kept saying it but kept making it less mandatory so we slept through them and just went to lunch. Then we had learning groups, some more praying, then we went on a tour of the kibbutz and the dairy farm-- it was gross. 450 cowsss and we watched them being milked, so gross. We smelled so baddddd. Then dinner, praying, and left. It was a fun and different weeekend. I've never been to a kibbutz or the Galilel so it was exciting

On the way home from the kibbutz, I got a very unexpected facebook message from alli, the aephi representative for Panhel, that they had their first Panhel meeting that day and the new greek life advisor who just started a few weeks ago came to the meeting and bascially yelled at them for 2 hours about how its unconsitutional that the president of the council is abroad right now. So the entire council spent the entire 2 hours screaming at him about this and apparently he wouldnt budge. I couldnt believe it, I called her right away and we were freaking out together. I was vice president last year and the board decided that I could be president even though im abroad because theres no real job or meetings in the spring, so it was fine. But this new greek advisor came in and its unacceptable to him so now theres huge huge hugeeee problems! I was sooo upset, I called everyone on the board that I knew and the old president and we just had heartattacks togetheron the phone. Basically what happened was, we had election in december for the upcoming term which happens from march to march and becasue I was vice president at the time I could stay in the room and elect the future board even though I was running. So the girl I ran against, this girl in Phi Sig, lost against me and dropped down to the other 6 positions and lost everythingggggg!! So we felt really bad letting her walk away with nthing after she was brave enough to run for 6 positions so I said- I wouldnt mind having her step in for me as President while I am gone, its only 2 months and theres really nothing to do during that time, shes just a contact. So I thought that was pretty nice of me- and before I left I explained to her that she is to keep me informed of everything, tell me when meetings are going to be held, discuss the agenda with me beforehand, etc... pretty much tell me everythinggg-- and she hasnt. She didnt even tell me about this, I had to find out from someone else on the board. So I am extremely dissapointed. And apparently at this meeting she was the only one out of about 15 girls to agree with the advisor the whole time, because she wants my permanenet position. So theres just huge issues with this and im just sooo upset. We've been withou a greek advisor for a number of years now, and she didnt even tell me that they hired one while I was gone-- so ths week I have to deal with him on not so nice terms. Tomorrow I have to call him and hopefully resolve this with him but apparentl he is extremely mean and stubborn and isnt budging. Tomorrow the entire board is having a confence call about this with the Natiional Panhellenic Council, like the adults, about this and I will be video chattd into this. Its just really embarassing that a meeting was held about me and I was the last one to know. This greek advisor should have contacted me about this before he had a meeting with15 girls about this. Im really really nervous about this but luckily I have a lot of people on my side and everyones prepared to save y position. Lots of phone calls will be made this week

spring break fridayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy woooooooooooo

Went to the gym this morning with lauren. Then went to the shuk with lauren and rosie this afternoon. We bought soccer tickets for the Jerusalem vs Tel Aviv game on wednesday woooooooooooooo!!! then off o eilat thurday