Shabbat...Reading Torah...Emma Visits!

This morning I woke up early, went to Shabbat breakfast, then practiced my Torah portion. I was getting ready to chant three aliyot or 9 verses. Noa got me the sheets without vowels after breakfast and I went back to my room to practice. 

We held services in a new location on the Kibbutz. Baruch was not here so the Rabbi who is the director of NFTY in Israel led the service. I was called up to read from the Torah and I chanted my three aliyot. I was nervous but it went very well and the Rabbi told me I did a great job. 


Around 4pm Emma Peabody came to Kibbutz Tzuba with her boyfriend Ilan. For those of you that don't know, Emma is a good family friend from New Jersey. Emily and I gave her and her boyfriend a tour of Tzuba then we went down to The Belmont to chill with them. Noa also knows Emma so she soon joined us. It was really nice to see Emma because I haven't seen her in a while. Of course the first thing she said to me was "you look just like Sandra!" I've been getting that quite a lot on this trip. 

Emily, Ilan, Emma and Alexa

I actually had a lot fun with Emma and to my family--she says hi and she misses all of you! When Emma left we went to the Zula for Havdalah. It was a nice service and very different than anything I have done in a while. It was very camp style. Now I am in The Belmont finishing up homework because school starts tomorrow!