I'm having trouble believing that 3 pm yesterday was really only 24 hours ago.
Yesterday afternoon I went to a learning session with Noam Zion, this incredible tutor with whom I'm learning a little Torah (and hopefully some Jewish life cycle studies.) And then I had a phone meeting with Steve (the Director of the Dorot Fellowship in Israel). I know, logically, that was yesterday but my eyelids haven't quite gotten the message.
Max and I went to Tel Aviv last night, first to have dinner with his family. It was quite the affair! A fancy dinner with fancy guests (including a recent winner of the prestigious Israel Prize). I think we missed a lot of good stories because we couldn't follow the Hebrew.
Then we went to our friend Elliot's apartment for a brief nap before trekking to Mike's Place (a bar near the American Embassy in Tel Aviv) to watch the election results roll in through the night. The bar was packed with Obama fans (and one McCain support) whose eyes were glued to CNN until the early hours of the morning.
It was one of those nights I'll remember forever. In part because I've never left a bar at 6 am. And because the sun rose over the Meditteranean just minutes before CNN announced Obama's victory. And because I really feel like I witnessed something big in American history. The bar closed before Obama's big speech in Chicago, so we taxied to a friend's apartment and watched it there. I don't know if it's because I hadn't slept, or because there hasn't been a truly motivational figure in my lifetime, or because he truly is an amazing speaker but I had tears in my eyes. Mrs. Sheppard (my 9th and 11th grade English teacher and one of the best educators and mentors I've had) emailed me today. She called Obama "energizing" and, considering that this election kept me up through hours of the morning I rarely witness, I couldn't agree more.
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