teen aliyah

Boring... my parents have done it again, packing again. Pack, pack, pack and pack some more. Boy, let me tell you it is BORING! I had to do homework and listening to them really sounded like it was boring. Okay, it's Sunday--maybe I'm not as dumb as I say I am, but at least I got my math out of the way on Friday and made a dent in my social studies today--we're doing the Cold War which frankly is also boring. World War I and World War II were both more interesting, although the Holocaust and atomic bombs on Japan were pretty freaky. This Cold War project is harder than heck--the project is a group project with 4-5 of us working on the project. My part is figuring out what the US perspective was on how the Commies started the Cold War and explain what Truman did at the Potsdam Conference.

The most important part of packing, for me, was getting my Star Trek and Halo books packed so I have something to read when we get to Israel.

The best part of the day was seeing Michal and Ronnie for brunch.

The best of last week was finding out I got B+ on my math test which brought my grade up!

I have to work hard in school because the school year is almost over--then we're off to Israel! I will get to see Yona again and I bet her Hebrew will be a lot better than mine--she grew up in Israel and I didn't, so she learned to speak Hebrew when she was a kid. I really miss Yona--she called us last week on Skype, which is a way to talk on the computer so I got to talk to her on the phone while she was on her computer--pretty cool! (Hey if you see this, Yona, write back to me, okay?)

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I had to write a research paper for Science. I chose to research Tay-Sachs disease because I had to do something about genetics and this is a genetic disease of Ashkenazi Jews. I worked hard on the report, doing the research and writing 3 to 4 drafts before I got it done.

I got the report back today. My science teacher gave it back with N/C, which means No Credit. I didn't understand it. My teacher told me about all the things that were wrong with it. It was really discouraging. She explained in great detail what was wrong and I finally figured out the flood of stuff she was telling me. She wants a diagram, more information about what CAUSES the symptoms of neurological decline, and the genetics part needs to be fixed because she thinks it only talks about symptoms and not genetics. That's dumb--it does talk about the genetics. I don't really get what else she wants me to do about the genetics part.

I was discouraged and felt like all the work I put into writing this report was a total waste. I mean, come on, she gave me a N/C which is like an "F" which only someone who didn't do any work should get. I worked really hard and didn't get any credit at all. Makes me wonder why I bother at all.....

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Yona has just left the house for Israel. I will miss her a lot. Today I had brunch with my step sisters, Michal and Hannah. Michal is married to Ronnie who is a nice guy. He likes to tease the girls. It was a lot of fun to see evreyone together, kol b'yachad. This will probably be the last time we're all together until Hannah and Michael and Ronnie come to visit us in Israel. Pax knew something was wrong--because Yona had her suitcases out. Pax knows that suitcases are bad news--someone is leaving. She wagged her tail and followed us all around. I don't think she knows that Yona is gone for good. But that's okay because Pax is coming to Israel with us. Pax will see Yona in Jerusalem.

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Yesterday I let my L.A teacher look at the "And G-d Cried" by Charles Lawliss. So she looked at it and she thought it was interesting. Well today I was really happy to get the lab report for science done.

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