The beautiful city of Be'er Sheva, which I hope to soon call home
I've missed my blog. I'm coming back. I'll start with a post that I wrote in November of 2012, but apparently never published.
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Hello dear blog, I've missed you.
Operation Pillar of Cloud has had me once again wishing for a platform I could use to write down those stray thoughts, and here you are.
When Ahmad Ja'bari was killed - eliminated - last Wednesday, the Home Front Command issued an immediate order to close all schools within 40kmk of Gaza, my university included. Thousands of students poured out of the campus and most of them went home to their parents that very evening - the trains were full, people were sitting on the floor just to get home, and in general there was crazy traffic at the city exit.
My roommates and I didn't know what to do. So far there hadn't been any missile warnings, and besides - the dorms are made of concrete and are pretty safe, so we thought we would stay and hang out, do some homework or something, until classes resumed. But by 21:00, four sirens later, we were all on our way home.
It's been a week now and there have been no classes since. With the way the ceasefire looks now, it's hard to know when we'll be back at school. But never mind that, what does a student do with a surprise week of vacation? Homework would be a good place to start, but I'm no good at working without a timeframe - I mean, how are you supposed to leave things to the last minute if you don't know when the last minute is??
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Hello dear blog, I've missed you.
Operation Pillar of Cloud has had me once again wishing for a platform I could use to write down those stray thoughts, and here you are.
When Ahmad Ja'bari was killed - eliminated - last Wednesday, the Home Front Command issued an immediate order to close all schools within 40kmk of Gaza, my university included. Thousands of students poured out of the campus and most of them went home to their parents that very evening - the trains were full, people were sitting on the floor just to get home, and in general there was crazy traffic at the city exit.
My roommates and I didn't know what to do. So far there hadn't been any missile warnings, and besides - the dorms are made of concrete and are pretty safe, so we thought we would stay and hang out, do some homework or something, until classes resumed. But by 21:00, four sirens later, we were all on our way home.
It's been a week now and there have been no classes since. With the way the ceasefire looks now, it's hard to know when we'll be back at school. But never mind that, what does a student do with a surprise week of vacation? Homework would be a good place to start, but I'm no good at working without a timeframe - I mean, how are you supposed to leave things to the last minute if you don't know when the last minute is??
posted by Leenie ;-) at 1:59 pm
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