July 17, 2006

• “If you want to know the truth, it was an accident of youth & the last thing that I’m taking is the blame.” –Graham Colton-

  
  

   

  
  

  It’s interesting to sit back & watch the drama unfold, rather than be the catalyst & a key player. Also: I wonder why everyone tells me their secrets when I admit to not being able to keep them.

  
  

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  We performed last night’s Havdallah ceremony on the roof of the Kennedy Center, where you can see the whole city. Beautiful, this place.

  
  

   

  
  

  We had a Machon Kaplan iron Chef tonight, where everyone made an entree & my roommates & I provided fabulous dessert. I put my old-school bakery skills to good use by icing a peanut butter chai onto the brownies, which tied for first place dessert.

  
  

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  The Holocaust Museum today was  emotionally draining. I toured it with four other people in my program who’d never been there. It took us more than 3 hours, & only because we sped up when we found out the museum was closing. What a painful place, what nightmarish history. Everyone should go once in their lives.

  
  

   

  
  

  Fewer than 2 weeks left here… I miss home a little bit, but I wonder what I really have to go back to. The Nat? The Clubhouse? And perhaps more intriguingly, who is there for me?

  
  

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  So much has changed. As scared as I was to come here, I'm more scared to go back. I’m only really excited to return to the Stater, to begin my endeavors as a “real” reporter & to be a part of something that means something, anything, & I'm even terrified of that, because what if I can't handle it? Or them? What if they can't handle me???

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  don't you see?

  
  

  don't you see?

  
  

  (that the charade is over)

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