Cops

I hate the show cops. It's just an excuse to exploit the mentally dim and milk that lowbrow "entertainment" for all it's worth.
It's on right now and the cop is curently interrogating a woman of color. They love making fun of people of color...making them look bad.
I haven't posted anything in a while because I've been all over the place. I moved out of my dorm officially last week, but unoficially stayed there until Wednesday. Now I'm at Zev's apartment for the next hour and a half, from whree I must head over to the Goldstein Youth Village to take a taxi to Ben Gurion Airport for my 6 a.m. flight to Warsaw.
Now I'd like to take some time to discuss an event that happened last week, Yom Yerushalayim, or should I say more accurately, Yom Gush Katif. It wsa impossible to walk 2 inches without seeing Orange flags, ribbons, t-shirts, or strollers. The anti-disengagement camp is SCARY, and it's only gonna get worse. I feel sorry for my cammpers this summer whose vision of Israel's beauty is goinig to be dulled by the ubiquitous shower of orange.
The arguments against the disengagement often vary but the one's who wear ribbons are the one's who are the ulra regligious zealots who believe that Jews are infallible and that gays are ok, but homosexuality isn't. Ignorant, obnoxious, racist.
I gotta go. I could keep going but I gotta finish up last minute stuff.

Twenty-one

I'M DOOOOONE!!! Finished! Finished with finals, finished with Ministry of Tourism, and finished with my film paper!! Feels good to be done, but it's all a bit bittersweet because everyone's already begun to leave... two of my closest friends have already left. But as soon as one thing finishes another begins, and I have already begun seminar training sessions 3 days ago. These sessions are interesting in that I'm beginning to meet my fellow staff members for the next 2 months but frustrating in that they're all in Hebrew. Of course, being a student of the Hebrew language for the past 5 months has improved my Hebrew dramatically, but not even close to the point where I am able to understand, let alone participate in most of these discussions. The upside, of course, is that being forced to learn Hebrew should no doubt continue to improve my Hebrew at a continually rapid pace, despite my Hebrew classes being over.
I remember when I was a camper on seminar during my "Mifgash" etgar in which our group met and interacted with fellow Israeli teens. I remember one Israeli girl telling me that I could learn and be fluent in Hebrew in "just 2 months." After 5 months of studying this language, I have to say "yeah right!" Again I've learned alot, but I doubt even if I was around Israelis all the time, I would need at least a couple more months until I was fluent. But you never know.
A quick note on being 21: Before becomming this age, I always thought the American law forbidding anyone under 21 from drinking alcoholic beverages was stupid, pointless, and hypocritical. Afterall, I always felt that once a kid turned 18, went off to college, the army, or wherever, he should be able to make the decision for himself whether or not he was ready to responsibly drink alcoholic beverages. Certainly, if someone is considered a "man" in newspapers or is tried as an adult or can die for their country then they should also have the freedom to have a beer after coming home from months in Iraq or before being executed. Plus, because many of these 18-year-old-kids are living away from home for the first time in their lives, they would be able to access alcohol anyway, legal or not, and the fact that it isn't legal only makes the drinking of such beverages more appealing. This law seemed counter-productive and useless.
However, now that I am 21 I realize how stupid and ignorant I was. I realized this as soon as I turned that magical age, when I was immediately overpowered by a sudden surge of newfound responsibilty and wisdom. I now look down on college freshman through juniors and shun their irrisponsible and illegal drinking habits, for I now realize that what they lack in age can only begin to describe how not ready they are to partake in the responsible and patriotic act of indulging in an ice-cold Bud Light.
So shame on you, every other country in the world that has a drinking age of 18! Shame on you backwards, sick nations that doesn't lookout for the welfare of your state, the health of your youth, and the preserverence of freedom! May God have mercy on all your souls!