February

This may sound weird as the topic for my second blog posting, but it
reallyseems like the year is winding down. Well, I should preface that by
sayingthat in Israel, the most productive part of the year is between the end of
the holidays in the fall and the beginning of Passover. Before and after,
everyone just uses the holidays as an excuse to do nothing. And, given that
Passover is in a bit over a month, the year is almost over. The real reason
that it feels that way is that (in all reality) we are 2/3 of the way into the year,
starting to take it easy and travel to different places instead of staying tight to
the routine. During the first half of the year, more of my friends were in Jerusalem,
now having moved on to other places in the country - which also makes it more
difficult to find people for MH events. I even find myself totally settled and
comfortable at work, which I started halfway through the year. For a good three
months in the fall, my roommates and I had a schedule which we stuck to, getting up
every morning, coming back, etc. Now, every week, there is something new, which
makes it much more exciting, and for some reason emphasizes how quickly
the year is going by. Well, anyhow, all of our activities are going well, despite the fact
that it is getting harder and harder to find people to come to them. All three
of us are going away for different periods over the next three weeks, and I
have been assigned to do a MH event all on my own. It's a first, and it may just
fall through. (Just kidding... They would murder me.) We'll see.

Jacob