Pass'd over

Yay for pesach!

I stayed at Josh Shainesson's house for the first 2 days of Yom Tov, and I fell in love with his family.

The first seder was at their house. The Jonas' were also there, and we had 6 afikomen. Rachel's sister Jen is going to be at Penn next year, which makes me happy. Maybe I can invite her to Shabbat dinners and stuff.

Then Tuesday I slept in while the boys went davening. I sat around all afternoon and read and stuff. We went to mincha and maariv, and then there was a seder at Rabbi Rosen's house. It wasn;t as lively as the first, but what impressed me was that Rabbi Rosen was a Ba'al T'shuva. Yay for "BT"s as he calls them.

This morning I actually woke up for minyan. Reuven and Shlomo were there, and we talked afterwards and they walked me back most of the way [Reuven lives like 10 seconds away from Josh]. In the afternoon Josh, Arielle, and I went to the park, and we met Arielle's friend Rachel [wow so many!] who is also going to Pardes. We may live together. She's nice. She also has a nose ring. So hah! Orthos can and do pierce their noses!

I also had a few discussions with the Shainessons sometime during these 2 days.

I think I'm going to ask them to adopt me.

Just kidding.

I guess she didn't know

So my mom just called me. Here's an excerpt:

Mom: So Jon tells me that you're becoming Orthodox
Me: Yeah
Mom: How are you going to be a rabbi?
Me: I'm not...
Mom: So what are you going to be then?
Me: I dunno...didn't you know that I'm becoming Orthodox?
Mom: No.

Silly Mom. hehe. So much for her knowing I was becoming Orthodox and being okay with it. Though she didn't say much more than that other than I have to work before grad school if I want to do psychology