The winter is among us

Dear children,

The winter is among us. As you all know, I am class photographer. I would put up some of my class pictures up here, but am stopped in my tracks by the impending lawsuits. Today was a very frustrating day, but probably a good day nonetheless. I just say that becuz i had a helluva time getting this picture up here. Stupid stupid blogger while typing on a laptop little sister wants me to put on playstation for her when she can clearly see i am blogging.

I drew an awesome doodle today. I loved it so much I took a picture of it and sent it to my cousin in Israel. Some people would say that's taking it a tad too far. I say you people are nuts. Going too far is all the rage these days.

So, elections are tomorrow. I'll back up; my friend is running for g.o (girls organization) and I'm her campaign manager. So like tonight we wrote her presentation. It's short, smart, and right to the point. I sincerely doubt it will win. But hey, elections are elections, you never know what might happen! Do your country a favor and vote for us!

Lesse...what else happened to me today...Oh yeah! I said I'd write about my dvar torah troubles. Well, let's hunker down on those.

The story starts like this:

I was given a few words to write a dvar torah on. These are them: (my lappy does not have hebrew font, so bear with me)
Eesh Tachat Gafno, vih' tachat tih-ai-nah-to
A man under his grape vine, and under his date tree.

That's just about everything they gave me. That and 'write a dvar torah'. So, with no other ideas, I wrote a page about what can be learned about peace from these words. I think it was very pretty. So I turned it in a month early. A few days before the due date, one of my teachers handed it back to me. Her words:

"It's very nice, but I think you made it up."

My brain: Uhduuuuuuuhh

What else was I supposed to do? Well, apparently, the point of a dvar torah is to write down a meforash about the pasuk you were given. Except, I pointed out to her, that I wasn't given anyting about the pasuk. Just the words. So she looked it up for me, very nice of her, and told me it was in malachim aleph. So I found the pasuk in tanach. And there was nothing there on it. So she suggested I get a new pasuk.

My next pasuk was 'ohseh shalom bimromav', from shemonaah esrai. But, after looking that up in an artscroll siddur, I found there was absolutely nothing on that pasuk either. The paper was due three days ago. My last last hope is that one of my friends will help me out with a pasuk tomorrow (she says she has an artscroll that has a good dvar torah in it). If you are reading this, dear friend, please know YOU ARE MY ONLY HOPE!!!

If she doens't fill out I'm gonna have to talk to the teacher about it again. I've got to find SOMETHING on it...

Tomorrow is Friday, don't expect to hear from me. I'll be lucky if I get enough time before shabbat to take a shower.


contemplating putting her doodles up on her blog,
iguana