of breads and beards

Pesach ended right on time, even if I couldn't eat bread for an extra day. The following Friday I headed up to visit with my Aunt Janni, my Uncle Michels ex wife. My cousins Serach and Eliezer were there and on Saturday afternoon my cousin Tifferet with her husband and two children stopped by as well. On Friday night I hung out a bit with Search and two of her friends and while she just got back from India, her friends are starting their big trips in the next few weeks/months. Also, it was a wonderufl opportunity to speak with her about our upcoming trip to America. Yup, Serach will be joining the evergrowing "delegation" that we are sending to my sisters wedding. It was a lot of fun talking in Hebrew almost the entire Shabbat and telling Serach all about the USA as well as what options we'd have if she wanted to tour at all on the Sunday we will be there.
Saturday night I headed back to Yerushalayaim and that was the beginning of an insane week.
On Sunday I went to the Souk as well as met up with a family friend w\from Scranton who was kind enough to send my contact lenses back to the states. After that I went and met up with Rosa, who had my invitation to the wedding and who had also ahd some bad news to share with me. My Great Uncle Yaakov had passed away earlier that morning. At that point we didn't know when the funeral would be but I went and did dsome grocery shopping and when I did find out the time of the funeral I couldn't attend because I had rehearsal for the Yom HaZikaron LSHoah (Holocaust Memorial Cem\remony) that I took part in. DUring the course of the day I started getting some bad pain in my head as well as headaches and eventually, aka near midnight, went to the emergancy health services and got a prescription. Note the fact that the doctor was french, barely spokehebrew or english and our conersation was very strange.
Due to t\my late nikght medical excapades I skipped class the next morning but then spent the entire day at school and had rehearsal again that evening. Tuesday was the actual ceremony and I also started my granola sales. Going very succesfully, I entered the profit margin on the second day. Wednesday Iw ent to visit my family who was sitting shiva for my uncle Yaakov and while it was a sad occasion it was good to see so many relatives all of whom love my mother and are so happy for my sister. Thursday was mny weekly parsha class as well as a hop around the center of town to a few small bars with some friends. I hadn't gone out around town in a long time and figured since I was near the center of town anyways I may as well meet up with some friends (jamie, Amy, Elana, Uriel etc). All in all a fun evening. The following morning I went to the gym and headefd to Maale Adumim to visit Yael and Shlomo for shabbat at a friends house. Honestly, it was one of the most fun wekeend. Very relaxed, very intelligent. Good food, good company. COuldn't have asked for a better time. And now, we startt this week. Yesterday was uneventful and tonight I plan on attending a Memorial Day ceremony (I also hope to attend one tomorrow). TOmorrow night Ill be going to Tel Aviv to celebrate Independance day as well as visit Julie (from Bing) and Wednesday my fmaily is meeting up in Ashdod at Michel and Nettas for a barbeque. Just over a week till I head home for the weekend. AAAHHHHH.