Wednesday, May 28, 2014

More changes in my life (as if anyone really needs to know about them)

As the title says, I really don't know why anyone is still reading this, being as the posts are most likely going to diminish slowly over the next year, but then will pick up again near summer of next year (stay tuned for "I'm Baaaaaaaccckkk...  Part II, coming next summer to this blog near wherever you read it!).
I forgot to mention in the last blog that I also had my name changed to Eitan over Pesach, so that's cool.  I don't really have much to say in terms of stuff I'm doing in school, being as next week is finals week and we've had study hall for this week so far, so that's that.  But, the boarding house stories?  In abundance.
Everyone has heard the stories of boarders who have had terrible experiences at their temporary homes: moldy food all the time (or no food), mean, crotchety people living with them - that's the hosts, and even taking the boarders' clothing when its left in the boarders hallway, where the hosts don't really have any reason to go into.  I've heard the stories, too.  But, what I didn't know going into this year, was that these guys?  They could have written the textbook.
These people are really old, and can be very crotchety at times.  Not to say that their mean people, but they have a tendency to be annoying.  Before winter break of this year, the house had three boarders.  Now it has two, because of the straw that broke the camel's back.  This guy wasn't the neatest person in the world, but he also wasn't as messy as I am.  When he did laundry, sometimes things fell out of the big pile he had to carry from the dryer onto the floor, and he didn't have time to pick the stuff up.  They saw that as a baaaad sign (sarcasm), and they decided - well, she decided - to take all his clothes that were left on the floor from now on.  This got him mad, and he got even madder when she refused to give him his clothes back.  So, he and his parents came to a mutual decision: he wouldn't come back after winter break.  When he told the hosts this, and asked for his clothes back, she still wouldn't give them to him!  He eventually did get his clothes back, though.
Another one of the more famous stories of this house comes form last year's boarders.  Every Sunday, she makes French Toast with the challah left over from shabbos, and sometimes uses other bread.  One time, the boarders saw that the French Toast was blue - it was moldy.
Well, I have to go now - class is about to start
As always, thanks for reading, even though the stories are bound to stop coming at some point.
BH, BH, BTTY, and don't forget to be awesome.
Bye.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

I'm Baaaaack...

So...  been a long time, hasn't it?  Well, I haven't really had the time to blog (at all) recently, and a multitude of things have happened since my last blog a little over one year ago.  I turned 16 (and I still don't have my permit...  yet), I began to learn computer coding, and I began to write a book!  Yes, I can already hear the accusations building up:  "Wait, you had time to write a book, but you didn't have time to blog and let us, the readers, know what is going on in your extremely interesting and danger-filled life?"  Well, to those accusations, I say shut up, because I have my reasons for not writing.  I only get access to a computer whenever the General Studies principal - remember her? - lets the teachers take us into the computer lab.
So, not that often.
A lot of things have come up, and are still coming up - my cousin having a baby in Washington, D.C., my sister's Bas Mitzvah coming up in a few weeks, and I've been learning more and more Yiddish.  But other than that, nothing really big has happened recently.
Oh, I found out that the guy from the Mivtzoyim story actually got engaged to someone, and she's undergoing conversion, so that means that he is going to have to start keeping kosher and wearing tefillin, whether he likes it or not!  (Someone remind me to use that argument on him this Friday, please)
So, yeah.  General Studies principal still not smart, hosts being weird, and roommates actually being funny - I switched boarder houses this year.
I don't really know how much time we have left in the computer lab for the year, being as we end on the 17th of June, and have Shavuot in between, so I'll try to write as much as possible, but again, I don't know.
Thanks for taking the time of day to read my blog, and I'll write ya later.
Bye.