Wordless Whenever: Hanefesh Sweatshirt

So one of the things that will probably be featured most on Wordless Wednesdays is ....REGALIA!!!!

Region: Hanefesh
Type: Sweatshirt

Words Written: Hanefesh (Hebrew and English) USY

When it was Debuted: Spring Convention '11

When Purchased:  Spring Convention '11

Status: Soldout 

You Have A Mission

Tonight I am giving you all missions. Apply for Regional General Board!!!!

ALL the cool kids are applying.

Current offers from board members to apply-

Penina- 2 cookies to apply for Rel/Ed RGB, and 1 cookie to apply for any other RGB.

Micah- Cookies to apply for Rel/Ed RGB.

Joan(me)- Candy if you apply to Mem/Kad RGB

Rachel and Jacob have not offered anything yet but I bet if you bug them enough they will too.

APPLY HERE!!!!

If you have any questions PLEASE contact me.

Wordless Whenever: Coming Back From Fall Boards

Some blogs have wordless Wednesdays. This means ever Wednesday they have a picture with only a couple words explaining it as their post. For those of you who know me well I am not to good at planning so instead of wordless Wednesdays I am going to create Wordless Whenever! (but not completely wordless)

"We broke the train!!"

The Hanefesh and NERUSY Boards minus the SA/TOs and Presidents plus one Emtza board member all took the train home together. So what happens when you put eight USYers on a train together? Refer to the picture above for an answer.

Flashback: 9/11/01

I was 5 when the twin towers fell, I had just started first grade. My grandparents were living with us at the time because they had just sold their house and were about to move to Florida full time.

I remember my teacher talk to the class, we sat on the carpet and she sat on the big orange chair that faced it. We were sitting in the way we would while she read us a story, but she wasn't about to read us a story. She was about to tell us of something we could not fathom. She started talking "Don't talk to other kids about what I am about to tell you I do not know if their teachers have talk to them yet..." At this point I knew something was wrong, this wasn't a tone my teacher had ever used before, something really bad had happened. She continued to tell us about the event of that morning but I did not grasp what had just happened yet.

After school I was with my Poppy and Grandma Sara in the kitchen having an after school snack. My Grandma turned on the news...and there it was the plane going strait in to one of the twin towers.

 How could it happen? Why didn't someone stop it? Was it a mistake? After all no one could have killed so many people on purpose? ...RIGHT? 

But it was no mistake. At five I could barely understand that, in my innocence I wanted to believe it wasn't so. This plan crash shattered my perfect world, in perfect wolds people don't just crash planes in to buildings. These are things that just don't happen in perfect worlds, therefore the world I live in must not be perfect. For most people this is something that is a concept that is developed over time, helped along by small evils not a concept that comes to light all at once. For me and many children around my age at the time we did learn that concept all at once, we do not live in a perfect world.

Even today I struggle with that fact that someone wanted to crash a plane in to a building. A person knowingly killed hundreds of people. People who have friends and family, spouse and children. Our country is still at war. We are still healing from the attacks of 9/11. It will take time and we probably never will be completely healed, always bearing a scare.

This post is for all the victims of 9/11, their children and families, its for all the first respondes that help save lives that day.

Encampment 2011!!

Since I am clearly too lazy and busy to write about encampment I am instead going to post videos made be Will the creator of USY Facts, if you like this you should check out the USY Facts Facebook page.

Chest Crossed

They say half the fun of any trip is the journey, in our case this is a very true statement. The way to Fall Boards weekend seemed fairly uneventful, that is until we got to Newark Airport. From there we were taking a hotel shuttle. Because of traffic it was late to the airport which means more people were waiting than would have been 10 minutes earlier, all USYers. When it finally did come it was about half the size of the other shuttles but the driver was determined to make us all fit.

I was one of the first people to go inside, but no where near the last. Soon people were piling in and there was at least three people on each seat for two, plus people sitting on the ground where ever they could. 31 people in all were piled in to a shuttle designed for around 10. 

The driver gets in looks around and says "I usually don't do this." And for a finishing touch while all the USYer are looking at him he crosses his chest.

Board Conversations

As we discovered on the way to encampment all conversations between the five of us (and Tammi) go roughly the same way. They contain the following things:

Ramah Palmer - THIS is what ALL our conversations lead back to...ALWAYS(I feel like I know some of the kids they talk about them so much). Rachel and Micah could spend hours talking about Ramah. In the background Penina and I will be trying to make it stop, while Jacob is reading on his Nook.

Hook Ups-  This is almost always about Ramah people so it practically goes in the first category.

Our "Comm."- If you have been paying attention I have never mention our comm. because we don't have one. That is unless you ask Penina in which case we do have one just know one knows.

Cousins- As we can all tell you Jacob has 23 first cousins, and he talks about everyone one of them which drives Micah crazy. Jacob is also very defensive about his family.

2nd Hand Stories ONLY!!!!- This is a rule that applies when Tammi is around. She will say "I have very nice opinions of everyone of you and I don't want them to get ruined." So we can not share stories about ourselves just other people.

Board Picture at Encampment(Jacob is missing)