TURKEY TROT!

This Thanksgiving was incredible. My best friend, Shavit, got a pardon from the IDF to come to the states to visit his sick grandmother. Instead of seeing her, he stayed with me for the majority of the time. I convinced him to run the Prospect Park 5 mile turkey trot with me. He beat me by 2 minutes but I am still happy that I finished in under and hour. This photo is a) proof that we finished (and got swanky medals) and b) amazing to analyze Shavit's running fashion. Anyways, here is my "Thankful" list.

I am thankful for:

- Long underwear

- Overalls

- Leah's closets and sock drawers

- Sid

- Anna's vegan baking

- Shif and Josh bar nights

- My roommates in Ann Arbor

- Yonit's closet of costumes

- Bad TV

- My parents (for everything)

- Tofurkey

- Being able to run

- Being 21!

- Skype

- Working showers

- Shavit

- Sava's $1 veggie burgers on Mondays

- Cranberry sauce

- Airplanes

- Scandinavia

- Bicycles

- NYC

- Israel

- Apple sauce

- Yiddish

- Tsutsi

- The other YV girls

- Scarves

- Leah

- Blogs

and warm winter boots!

Postcards

I have had a bit of trouble concentrating in my color class. I really just don't care (even though I know I should). I seem to just be bored in the class and try to finish projects as soon as possible or put them off and deal with them last minute... and it shows. So I decided that instead, I would make my projects for friends and people I care about. This seems to be helping since I know it is a "gift". These are two "free studies" that I have turned into postcards. The orange one is for Sarah in North Carolina and the blue one is for Natalie in Brooklyn. They are my closest friends from my program in Denmark and we have been corresponding via postcards (a form of communication we fell in love with while being abroad). Hopefully my teacher won't mind that I am sending my project in the mail before I actually turn it in for a grade (she is getting a scanned copy...eek!) I also hope Sarah and Natalie don't read this blog post until after they receive these via snail mail.

The Reluctant Dragon

My roommate, lucy and I are slightly obsessed with Disney's "The Reluctant Dragon" and the poem that is recited called "Upside down cake"

"Poor little upside down cake,
Troubles? You've got 'em!
For your bottom's on your top, 
And your top is on your bottom!

Poor little upside down cake,
Your troubles never stop!
For your top is on your bottom,
And your bottom's on your top!"