Things are Picking Up

Last night there was a Halloween party on campus. It was a lot of fun. I tried to wear the Halloween costume that Hillary sent me, but unfortunately it was too small. And yes, it is a little princess costume. The party was exactly what I needed to unwind from my lousy day and week.
Tonight I'm going to have Shabbat dinner with a family in Haifa along with a group of people from the university. I'm excited. The Madrich who organized it, Levi, considers this family to be his second family, and I trust his judgment. He's a stand up guy. The guy is orthodox, but he's not out to impose anything on anyone and he's working on a very noble cause that unfortunately gets over looked in a lot of places: domestic violence. He also has a lot of great ideas for bringing helping students connect with Judaism, not organizations, such as next week's campus Shabbaton, which starts Thursday night with a program called Carlsberg and Carlbach, which essentially means everyone will be hanging out, drinking beer, and singing songs by Rabbi Shlomo Carlbach who tried to bring Judaism into the hippie movement. Friday night there will be a dinner on campus and then on Saturday there will be a pot luck/bbq at a park near by. It's going to be a great weekend.

Anyways, back to this weekend. Tomorrow night, I'm probably going to go to the beach, as usual, and then go to an art gallery opening somewhere in Haifa. One of my friends is doing an internship with the art gallery, so she invited us to come.

Weekends here are great.