EXCITING HAPPENINGS (and lice)

A few things have been brewing since we spoke last.

I finish school tomorrow, but I still have an algebra/trigonometry test to take which is simply no fun at all. I'm eagerly anticipating the announcement that Jo is going to make which is connected to a new website she launched called Pottermore. I’m less eagerly awaiting the arrival of my SAT scores. I thought I had Lice because three bugs fell out of my head. My Mom's friends came over and combed through my head for over an hour but I'm clear. So that's good.

More importantly, I am going on a trip across the country for five weeks! I leave on Sunday. It's part of a program called Etgar 36, which provides a group of Jewish teenagers the opportunity to travel across the United States and hear from political leaders, artists, activists, and educators about hot topic issues that the country is dealing with currently. To say I am insanely obscenely excited about this trip is a huge understatement. Social action is totally up my alley, and after taking U.S. history this year, I feel like I will be able to appreciate everything I see so much more. We hit 22 different states and do a bunch of fun things besides the educational stuff like theme parks (I’m a rollercoaster junkie), movies, and shows. And we go to a Poetry slam! I have always loved poetry and more recently developed a slam poetry obsession, so I'm very excited to see some slam poets perform live!

The downer of this trip is that I won't have my laptop with me. I will have my droid which has fairly good internet access but is pretty difficult to type on comfortably. So basically, I don't know how much blogging I'm going to get done. I'm going to have so many wonderful things to write about, but I'm not sure if I should wait till I get back and do a few blogs based on my handwritten journal entries, or if I should try and update with the iffy technology I will have at my disposal. Also, pictures will be pretty much impossible to provide while on the trip, but I could upload some when I get home. Any advice on what I should do?

Let's chat again before I leave, okay? And I'm going to try and finish a few poems I've been working at.

Best Wishes,
Jaime