1) I was due
2) Being november 1st, it would be a good way to start the month
and 3) There have been several weird events that occurred in the past two days, I needed to document them to set them straight.
But I'll go in chronological order, because wednesdays morning activity was unlike anything I had done before. Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I had never heard of spinning before. Is it just me? Is it Oregon? Spinning is like bike dancing. You listen techno music and pedal to the flow. There's two positions: leaning forward and standing straight up. Towards the end of the hour long session, we would have sprints that ranged from 30 seconds to two minutes(They're brutal). Nonstop pedaling for an hour. There were a few "spinners" who were raving about it, but I wasn't in a spinning mood because it was the day after the tournament, I was still a little sore (figuratively and literally). I ended up loving it! Finishing was definitely the best part. I took a killer nap afterwards. It's a quality workout thats difficult yet very doable. I was extremely proud of our group; not one person quit. We had a choice for next wednesdays activity between spinning and yoga, nearly everyone chose spinning.
Thursday started with Ulpan class. I had to make up a test, so I had a written and an oral test. I did so-so (caha-caha) on the oral, and on the written test I did exceptional. After ulpan everyone started packing for a hiking trip on Mount Carmel in Haifa. A lot of my friends went, and at the last second I decided against it. I really wanted a relaxing weekend to myself, and the trip cost 200 shek. My roommates (all but one went) called me a second ago and said they should be back soon, and they mentioned I was lucky I didn't go, so it's nice knowing I made the right decision. Thursday night was weird. I went to Tel-Aviv with my shalem boys, and it ended pretty poorly. While getting Pizza, apparently Green spilled water on this russian guy who wasn't too fond of americans, and smashed his head into the table. Green's best friend, Zide, got in this guys face and the Russian headbutted him and socked him too. I ended up holding the russian guy back, trying to take ahold of the situation. Some Israelis saw that I was trying to get everything in order, and they let me know that this guy is not someone we want to mess with (he was fairly big too). Everyone was getting really heated up and it was just a bad situation, so I called a sheirut ( big taxi cab) and got everyone in. Green was fine, Zide's nose got a lil' jacked up, but we avoided what could have been something awful. I couldn't help but make some parallels to the basketball tournament and this incident (hear me out). What bothered me most about the basketball tournament was that I needed to step up and take control, which I didn't do, and we ultimately lost. I don't know what would have happened if I wasn't at the fight, but I don't think it would have been good. There was a good six guys with us, none of which were making a strong effort to resolve the situation. Sitting on the bus, I felt pretty good that we averted the scene and all that came of it was a slightly crooked shnoz.
Thursday and friday night, our apartment was having electricity issues. There was none. Very, very frustrating. Friday night we found out how we could have our lights on, but that was all. Even with that, they would go out every five minutes. I didn't do anything for halloween, pretty lame but oh well. All I did today was play basketball, which didn't end well. The shalem guys had a good friend visiting them, and towards the end of what would have been the last game, he got his arm caught between people and his arm popped out of his socket. It wasn't pretty. His arm looked like it was 4 feet long. As the ambulance took him away, I quickly ran through some of the events that had transpired the past few days: the fight, the power outage, Yoni's arm popping, and there's more random things that don't make sense( Avi's beating phil 8-1 in fantasy basketball, everyones baffled). I looked to my friend who inexplicably shaved his head except for the very front, and I say "weird couple of days huh?"
I'm starting to get nervous over the election. Upon the advice of my mother, I watched the sarah palin interviews ( and the SNL skits) and became terrified. Matt Damon summed it up very well. It's like a bad disney movie. The small town hockey mom from Alaska becomes president, who would watch that! She's a complete moron, which scares me for two reasons. A) a moron could potentially run the country ( the obvious one) and B) I think this helps her. For the past 8 years, our country has been run by a moron. He was voted in by morons. These people blatantly feel more comfortable with one of their own in office. Between the old guy and the moron, their quota must cover over 50% of America! OBAMA, STOP APPEALING TO SMART PEOPLE. He should just announce that he's hooked on phonics, I guarantee his numbers rise.
But I regress. I'm very nervous about the election. My eternal pessimist is coming out. I got an email from Democrats abroad telling me where I can watch the election around Israel. I think I'm going to Tel-Aviv at the American embassy, where there's supposedly a big screen. It should be fun I guess, we'll see. I'm getting antsy now.
And yes I voted
Cross your fingers
Jakey G
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