here is my trip to new york!!!

friday: went to morningstar shabbat which was fine. picked up jenny and brandon, was on my way to get nicky, didn’t signal left (because i was in a freaking left turn only lane) and a mean davis cop pulled me over because he was looking for drunk people. so i got a $75 ticket and then he noticed my car’s registration was out of date because i hadn’t gotten money into my account yet to get it registered since that ticket a week ago. so i got an optional ticket or whatever it’s called, where if i don’t get registered in 21 days i have to pay a ticket for $4000 or something horrid like that.

fine. whatever. moving on: picked up nicky, picked up lev, flew to new york. when we got into new york it was already saturday morning.

saturday: walked to our amazing hotel, left our luggage, went for breakfast and then parted ways. i went to the MOMA and even tho i was there half an hour before opening there was a fat line. finally got in and got thoroughly and satisfyingly lost. sat for a while in front of my favorite paintings there, the water lilies. took pictures of all the pretties.

after the MOMA i went to carnegie deli and got a bowl of pickles and an amazing, gigantic corned beef sandwich. so of course i had to call jordan. had a fun chat with him and decided on his advice that i should go see RENT which i had never seen live. he started to give me directions but then my phone ran out of battery (and later when i charged it i had a message saying he was going to call the police. oh, big brothers.) anyways, i finally made it to RENT and got a pretty good seat for $45, and it was AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL AND INSPIRATIONAL AND I DEFINITELY CRIED A LOT. i love rent so much.

after RENT i was pretty tired from walking all over new york, and considered not going to the Metropolitan. but you know me, when i have a rare chance i take it. how often do i go to new york? so i hauled my butt up there and did the short version. just went to the stuff i knew i liked best. and it was awesome and beautiful of course. so, super tired, i made my way back to the hotel and finally checked in, but the damn hotel didn’t have my name on their list so they had to create a reservation for me. which worked out well because i got a king bed and a room to myself. also, this famous actor whose name i can’t remember right now was in the elevator with me. awesome. oh wait! clive owen?

lev called me and came down to my room and we chatted for a while and then passed out on my bed for a couple hours. he left at one point and said he’d call when people were going out on the town. i slept through his call, but woke up 5 minutes before everyone was leaving and did a crazy fast job of getting dolled up and running downstairs. it ended up being jenna and two of her friends who live in new york, alex, lev and me. alex and lev just ended up going to times square or something. us 4 ladies met up with some guys they knew and went to a club. we danced the night away to amazing music. it wasn’t the most fun i’ve ever had because i wasn’t with people i knew very well, but it was fun nonetheless.

by 4am we were exhausted and my heels were KILLING me, especially after my day walking ALLLL over NY. so we got a cab and laughed our way back to the hotel, had some chinese, and went to sleep.

sunday: i definitely woke up exactly at 9:30 when the programming started, threw on clothes like lightning and ran like a crazy person to the conference room. we learned so much about hamagshimim, did ice breakers, learned about israel advocacy, listened to a debate on israel advocacy, learned about the connection betweeen hamagshimim and hadassah, and did all kinds of stuff. we had lunch in central park which was gorgeous and amazing and totally fun. there were about 20 or 25 fellows total, not including staff, from university of florida, u of michigan, stanford, some socal school i can’t remember, and about 8 of us from davis. fabulous group, all totally dedicated to israel advocacy. i love jews.

after the programming i figured i would work on my paper due tuesday and everyone else was going out, so i just went up to my room. not that there was much of anything i could really have done anyways, i pretty much have to be at the library for it. blahhh. also i accidentally had tea with caffeine at dinner and even tho i was exhausted ended up staying up til like 2am.

monday: at this point i had about 12 hours of sleep in 4 days and wayyyy too much walking around. somehow, i kept going. pretty much i’m magical. first thing in the morning we checked out of the hotel and went across the street to hadassah. there was supposed to be breakfast but the people we got it from delivered it like 2 hours late…and we had to leave. so we went to the UN, got a tour, met with the ambassador to palau, and met with the head speech writer for israel’s mission to the UN.

post UN we went back to hadassah where some of the head ladies came and talked to us. i love hadassah women, they’re hilarious and inspirational. i’m definitely interested in working for them. after the program ended, some people had to leave which was sad. some of us had late flights and went to the times square area. people slowly departed.

eventually it was time to go the airport…but we were sooo exhausted and confused by new york and were like 10 minutes late to get on the plane. uhhh….fuck? the lady felt sorry for us and even tho jet blue doesn’t usually do this, put us on standby for the next flight. which was in 24 hours. nicky and i were so exhausted and stressed that we just slept in the airport for a couple hours. we went to her friend’s apartment, had a fabulous deep conversation on the subway, got to his place and slept on a couch. woke up at 10:30 feeling like a human being again and not a zombie, although still freaking out about missing our flight. we went and got food, found a bookstore for a couple hours, got dinner, and left super early for our flight. aaand we finally took a plane home.

today, wednesday: took care of a lot of crap, called my mom to ask for money which she thank GOD is giving me, went to the library and worked on my paper and stressed out because not all the books i need are fucking THERE, did nefarious things. went to a sigma pledge event which was pretty fun, except emma and jenny didn’t go, or any of my real sigma friends. came back and tried to write my paper using the internet which was very not successful, and here i am.

tomorrow is gonna pretty much suck, unless i can magically pull this paper out of my ass. i’m kindof ready for summer. speaking of summer, i got the kohn internship and i’m working in SF at the BJE. i’m soooo freaking happy and excited, it’s an amazing opportunity.

so that was new york! crazy crazy fun and awesome, even with the rocky  ending. want to hear more about anything? call/visit/email me

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