A Couple of Things

1. I'm so excited becaue my BFF who my aliyah last summer is in town and I'm so excited to get to hang out with her. Plus she's telling me all these things I need to know about Israel like certain phrases, and how different it is there like how independent everyone is there and I'm so ready to see all that for myself in two months.
2. Two Sundays ago we went to visit my aunts house because our grandpa was in town and we basically had to say goodbye to him because thats probably the last time that we're going to see him before we make aliyah. But I really had to say goodbye to him because I'm leaving soon. It was really sort of scary because it made me leaving real and I was sort of freaking out. The week before that it was setting in that I'm not going to be here next year, and I'm not going to have my parents or my brothers or my dog or my own room or anything familiar and it's really scary. Saying goodbye to my Grandpa made it so real and scary. So as excited as I am it's really setting in now so I'm pretty freaked.
3. I've had two more driving appointments after that first one. The first one this lady driving teacher picked up me and my partner and she drove us down to this part of chicago I've never been to. She was kind of annoying and I kept forgetting to stop at stoplights and stop signs which was really bad. Then yesterday the main driving teacher took us out to Winetka and we had to drive up and down this place called the Ravines which is this super windy road which was super scary to drive down. So I think I'm definatly getting better but thhere's no reason to because I have to do it all over again in two years!!!
4. Today is a fast day and I am super starving so I'm gonna go 'cause I get to eat in 4 minutes!!!!!!!

Driving

So since I'm now fifteen (this happened a while ago) and I get to drive!!!! I took Drivers Ed in school and now I'm actually going on the road. So I got my permit a couple weeks ago and I went a few times with my abba in parking lots which was... um.. OK I guess, but today the actual driving teacher picked me up and picked up the girl who's my partner and I actually drove on the streets. I think I did pretty well and the teacher kept saying I was doing a good job but I've still definatley got some learning to do. THe teacher was like "look at that person over there and this car and that car and there's a family there and kids there and..." it was pretty scary! Then I had to drive down some main streets where there were OTHER CARS!!! But he was like "don't worry the other cars know how to drive they're more scared of you than you are of them" which is definatley true, but I was still scared. Then my partner went and it was her first time driving and she gave me a really big headache but I'm sure she'll get much better!!! So I'm really excited to be driving around this summer and then since I'm going to Israel I probably am not going to be able to get my license and then I get to wait another two years to get my permit all over again, YAAY!!!! Because the driving age in Israel is eighteen and you have to learn more than just driving, you have to know a bunch of the mechnanical stuff too. So yeah I'm going to enjoy my summer and not worry about Israeli drivers for another two years.

NAALE!!

I GOT ACCEPTED TO NAALE!!!!!!! I AM SOOO EXCITED!!!! I can't believe I got in. I found out last week and it still hasn't set in. I was waiting and waiting and waiting and my Abba e-mailed them and asked when we were going to find out. They responded and said we sent you the e-mail at to this e-mail address, and it was THE WRONG ADDRESS!!! I would've found out MAY 14TH!!! Only thing is that there are four conditions to stay accepted, three have to do with grades but the fourth is that it will only work if there are enough girls. They said it looks promising but there's still that .1% that it won't happen. So I'm praying it works out!! OH and today I went to the orthodontist and she said that I could get my braces out early since I'm going to Israel!!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAYY!! I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!