I'm Alive!!!!!

Hey Beautiful Family,

Hope everyone is doing well!!! I've realized the time has now come for me to post another blog. I need to apologize for being so bad at keeping in touch with everyone and I apologize for my future failures of keeping in touch as well. So first of all, I have once again reached that point of life where I'm feeling pretty confused about  what's gonna be in the near future and I'm constantly having thoughts rolling around in my head of what I should do. This past Monday I started a Safrut Stam course in the yeshiva, it's something I've been telling myself that I've wanted to do for about the past year so I finally got off my feet and put together a little group in the Yeshiva and finally got the course started. So far it's been a bit boring and it's not a cheap course but If not now, when. So as of now I do plan on continuing this course until around Tisha B'av and hopefully by then I will be an expert scribe who has written one Megilla. It was a bit difficult for me to decide to start this course because it basically means that I won't be able to get a Summer job. Well I could, but it would have to be doing things like cleaning and stuff. Also, I hoping to start an SAT course in June. I've been trying to study for SATs on my own over the past few months but I havn't been well disciplined and I find it difficult to understand the material so I decided I should look into a course. (I'm hoping to get a 1400 on my SATs so I can be accepted to Tel Aviv University to start studying Physical Therapy. I actually spend this shabbos by a family where the mother is a Physical Therapist and she was telling me a bit about it and how she really loves it.) This is a very expensive course, but once I get out of the army I can use what is called my Pikadon, basically some sort of account that I will receive from them that can be used for studies, to pay for this course. Right now, I have to pay for the course on my own but retroactively I will get my money back, b/c I am still officially a soldier until January 2014. Speaking of which that brings me to my next problem. I have pretty much decided that I don't want to stay in Gush next year so I'm looking for something to do. I have been highly considering going back to serve as an active duty soldier to my old unit, and then I will be done in 8 months. And truth is, it's much less than 8 months, since I can request one month of Ulpan, one month of traveling abroad to visit family, and the last month is spent at home learning how to adapt back into society. The question is, do I really want to go back into the army???? HAPPY BIRTHDAY DODA!!!!

hope everyone enjoyed hearing one piece of the puzzle from my life,
all the best,
with tons of love,
Love,
Meir