I completely forgot one of my best friends, Gil Semons, was also doing Marva!! He told me during the first month he was intending to do it, but he had been absent during the decision week because of some family issues back home so it slipped my mind. Thrown in with the addition of two of my favorite girls, Sam Okin and Bianca Fouxe, I'm even more ecstatic since my last post.

Tuesday we played our final regular season football game. It was against the team that lost in the championship last year and ended up being the number one seed after they beat us. I played an absolutely terrible game, as well as everyone else. We were without Benny and Jeremy, which was rough. We lost 24-25. We scored with 30 seconds left on a midrange pass over the middle to Zach, and decided to go for the win with a two point conversion instead of a tie. It was disappointing, but the playoffs are coming, so hopefully we'll take care of business.

Earlier that day we took a fieldtrip to a Yemenite house, where they fed us Yemenite food, sang songs and showed us traditional clothing. I dressed up as an orthodox groom which everyone got a kick out of.

Last night was a huge party put on by the Scouts. I had a really good time, mostly because I got to see all of the scouts plus their friends who I've gotten close to, such as Ohad's friend Oded, who recently returned from America after taking a Greyhound from New York to Cali with stops on the way. Before the party, our sports track director, Yael, hooked up a ride to her house to watch the Maccabi Tel-Aviv basketball game and have dinner, and then provided a ride to the party. The scouts organized a ride back to Jerusalem, so between the transportation, dinner, entry fee, and free drinks all night ( Thanks to Tzofim), I payed about 12 bucks. Not too shabby.

Right now everyone is relaxing in the apartment before dinner. I have 4 friends staying in my apartment over the weekend. Rachel Pergamit and her friend from section 3, and Josh who I mentioned in my last blog and his friend Andrew. All of them are from section 3 in Bat Yam, which was pretty cool because both of them visiting were completely seperate developments. Tomorrow Rachel and I are going to have Shabbat lunch with some family friends from Eugene, and later that night I'll be playing Basketball for Jeremy's team in the Jerusalem Yeshiva league. I haven't played with them yet, so I'm hoping I fit in with them.

I have to get ready for dinner. I have so much more to write on concerning Isreal Experience; I'll try to do it sooner rather than later.

Jakey G