Yah...... I've been meaning to write..... i swear..... but i've been busy.... and away.... yah. oops. :)
So anyways, i'm sad to say that i have written absolutely NOTHING xept for school work and a lobbying speech. Now, perhaps you are wondering why I wrote a lobbying speech. Well. Allow me to explain.
This past weekend, I went to something called the L'Taken Seminar, which is a 4 day seminar in Washington DC run by the Religious Action Center (the legal/lobbying division of the Reform Jewish Movement) for Reform Jewish teens from all over the US. Throughout the weekend, we attended classes on issues of social justice, saw presentations made by people who were homeless and a woman who was disabled, did a lobbying simulation, did a simulation of the Knesset (the Israeli governing body), went to the Holocaust museum, went to the Mall (I went to Air & Space and the National Gallery), walked around Georgetown, ate dinner and shopped at Pentegon Row, and, most importantly, wrote a speech and presented it (along with the 8 others of my delgation) to the senators and the congressman of my state. The entire experience was amazing, and a ton of fun. I enjoyed every it of it - except maybe the dramatic fire (dalse alarm - it was only a burst steam pipe) that lead to the evacuation of the entire hotel and lasted from 10:30pm to about 12:45am. Even that was fun, though: try about 200 (the other 100 were asleep) teens singing Buttercup at midnight. It's an experience lol.
That's all for now.... cyaz.
Friday, February 5, 2010
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