Meir's Update!!!

hey guys, I read miriams update and it was so cool so i decided since I'm barely in touch with anyone I also should do WEEKLY update that way we can always know what's going on and it will be so much fun.

Ok, So i'm living in Gush in this apartment called בנין ט. oh yea that's write i have hebrew on my computer with hebrew stick on letters. Anyways binyan tet is this place where people move in after they get married if they still wwant to be part of the yeshiva. it's mostly like Shiur ה guys who are still part of the Yeshiva. and then when they have kids they move into binyan יב and when they have another kid the Yeshiva will give them a real apartment. Sorry i got off track. So i'm living in this binyan with 2 darkaynu guys Saadya and Dovid it's much harder than i thought it would be, but we have 2 apartment. So it's not so bad. Meaning We have 2 bathrooms 2 bedrooms and 2 kitchens but it's pretty small but cool. My only job is to live there and we havnt' discussed it yet but i hope to be making a little money on the side doing it. I'm learning a lot a lot i mean like so much, and i'm even seeing improvements. For example at night seder which goes from 8:30- 11:00 I used to take 2 breaks, one every 45 minutes and just last night I learned all the way from 8;30 until 10 without even taking a break, I think my focus is getting much better. I have a good night seder chavruta he's a genius and sometimes it's hard for him to go at my pace b/c he gets the gemara like that, so sometimes i havta have him explain it to me like 7 or 8 times but he's patient with me and getting much better. I recently just switched morning seder chavrutas and he's also awesome, he's from sydney. but my coolest chavruta is אבנר. אבנר לא מדבר אנגלית. . he's really cool and funny especially when he tries to speak english. and we talk about the army a lot b/c he already finished it and he walks around with a gun on his back. Also I'm now a madrich for this thign called NESTO. NESTO is kinda like NCSY. it's for americans or english speakers who made aliyah with their family but they wish they hadn't. They hate israel, hate hebrew, and hate school, and just wish they were back in america with their old friends and are kids are upset at their families for making aliyah. The kids range from 7th through 12th grade. The kickoff bbq is next week so i havn't met any of the kids yet but i'm exciting. it's volunteer madrich work, and the lady in charge was big in NCSY and now started this. also I'm goign to start going to Shalva once a week to work with special needs kids. Also I plan on going to army in March, I think i'm able to turn my 2.5 yrs into 2 yrs. And there's no contract on this yet, but I think I'm gonna be living in Avi Ganz's house. When i brought up the idea it was just like to mention it, but him and his wife seriously discussed it and are really serious about it. They're moving apartment so they will have an extra bedroom. I have other options but I like this one just b/c as a חייל בודד I think it would be nice to kinda come home to a family type environment, and i really feel i have a good קשר with his entire family even the new baby. I think that's it, if anyone has any questions please feel free to e-mail me, and sorry if i accidentally sent this to some ppl who i may not even know, but you probably enjoyed reading it. Oh yea, also friendwise at Gush is getting a lot better!!! yay!!!! not perfect but better.

with tons of love,

your best friend,

Meir Samberg

P.S. that's what the alphatbet would look like if we took out the letters Q and R

and also Happy birthday אמא

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