Apologies, gentle readers!

So I haven't posted in several days. I know, I know. I've been very naughty and promise to reform my reticent ways.

Really though, I haven't had a whole lot to say. Although one would think that living in Israel is the source of daily adventures, I must inform everyone that most of my time is spent in classes. The classes are interesting, but a reiteration of said classes in blog form is NOT interesting in the least. So, if it's demanded, I shall publish a transcription of my classes in this forum, if only to prove that sometimes it's better not to have an update at all.

So, today I actually have something interesting to say: I did laundry. Two loads of it, in fact. It was really nice, and now my clothes are all clean. That's my update for today. Happy now, Dad?

Alright, I'm kidding! I did actually do laundry, as I was down to one clean pair of underwear. But the real interesting part of the day was the artists' exhibition at night.

WUJS has three tracks. I'm in the "main" track, but there's also the Peace and Social Justice track (or as I often call them, damn hippies) and the arts track. So tonight, the artists unveiled the beginnings of their works. The visual artists all had displays, the dancers danced for us and the writers read their works.

I played violin as background for one guy's poems. They were Shabbat poems (they sounded like something out of the Siddur, as if he was the reincarnation of Yehudah Ha-Levi or something). I played three tunes to three different poems: a L'chah Dodi, one of the many tunes to Y'did Nefesh and a commonly-known tune to Yigdal.

The really amazing part of the experience was realizing the level of talent that exists in this program. It's hard to imagine that these people have created such amazing works of art. It's really cool.

Now that I've finally updated, I can make one promise: there will be no more updates until AT LEAST this coming Sunday, and probably not until Monday. We're heading off on a trip, a shabbaton really, to a kibbutz near Eilat. It should be fun.