Lots of misc. thoughts

For the sake of brevity (not to mention the sake of my sanity) I'm going to be as brief as possible here today.



- Yes, I know about the bombing that took place in Tel Aviv on Sunday. Yes, it is very sad. Yes, I am still going. No, I am not having second thoughts.



- I found a no-kill shelter in Orlando that I can take Juliette and Oskar to, but the problem is that I'm not entirely sure my car will make it down there and back. If it were to break down, it would significantly decrease the amount of money I could get for it, which would be bad, because the money from my car is going towards my plane ticket and living expenses until we get our first paycheck.



- I might have found the perfect home for White Puppy. It's an elderly lady who lost her Bichon last year and wants an older one to be a lap dog. She's home all the time. Her daughter and I have been emailing back and forth, and hopefully we can get something worked out. I think she lives in central Florida, so I'm hoping that if it works out I can take all three dogs with me in one trip.



- The whole "getting rid of the dogs" thing is incredibly difficult for me, though I know it's the right thing to do. Yesterday I cried so much my eyes are still puffy today. The only thing that's getting me through is knowing that God seems to be leading me in the direction of Tel Aviv, and therefore, this is His will, for both me and my dogs.



- I emailed the other interns yesterday to see how their loved ones were reacting to news of the bombing. I got quite a few responses very quickly which surprised me. Two of the girls who responded ended up discussing their Jewish faith with me, and we're going to have some planned discussions on the subject later this week. They're both making Aliyah, which means that they are going to become citizens of Israel, and are using the TASP program to fill in some of the requirements and to get settled there. Anyway, as I was talking to one of the girls, she asked me if I was Jewish, and I said no. She said that she was, and we started discussing her parents reaction to her decision to make Aliyah. She said they were hysterically in opposition to it, which surprised me. I asked for the reasoning behind it, and she said that the type of Judaism/the section, whatever you want to call it, doesn't seem to care a whole lot for Israel. (Mind you, I'm paraphrasing here, so bear with me.) I asked her to forgive my ignorance on the subject and said I'd probably be picking her brain a lot about it. Then she said, "Well that will be great, because I don't know anything about Christianity. We can learn from each other" It completely stunned me. I've always lived in the Bible Belt of the south, and the thought that someone might not know about Christianity - even though I've taken Missions and Evangelism classes and know that there are people that have never heard, the thought that a Jewish American girl living in New York City might not know about Jesus just completely shook me to the core. It just reaffirms my deeply rooted belief that these next two years are going to be amazing in a million different ways.



I need to run, I'm currently scouring the internet trying to find some poor sap who wants to buy a 1990 Nissan 240 SX. Wish me providence!



Ah yes, one more thing...I received my book in the mail yesterday "Your first 100 words in Hebrew" and I LOVE it! It is, by far, the most helpful book I've bought thus far. And for those of you who are worried (Alex) I've decided to put a cap on my Hebrew book buying. There's one more that should be on its way to me now, and after that, no more. But the first 100 words book has taught me more in 10 pages than any of the other 3 or 5 books have taught me in their entirety! How wonderful!