not that there's more than like 2 people left on my friends list that actually use this anymore or will read this, but whatever. i'm bored.
this place gets boring as hell, that's for sure.
but i feel at home, so everything ends up ok.

i'm basically a crazy bitch now.
my mood swings are crazy mad. but whatever. i live with people, so i'm expected to get pissed as shit every once in a while, right?
i drink way too much to be healthy, but it's less than most of the people in this country, so that doesn't really count for anything.
i started smoking, everyone in israel smokes. no biggie. don't lecture me. i'll hate you.
not really, but just don't anyway.
i dyed my hair like a reddish color, it's awesome.
i have two piercings. one in my nose and one in the little triangle thing in my ear.
despite all of the seemingly negative changes, i have the highest average in my class and all of the teachers and staff are absolutely in love with me. basically, i can get away with whatever i want, anytime i want, anywhere they happen to find me. if you don't believe me, ask maya. she was here. it's true.

i have probably two or three really close friends here, but i get along with almost everybody 90% of the time. again, the inevitable angers of living with people come out, but it's no biggie.
i love my room. it's super homey and awesome and i have pictures and signs and shit up everywhere.
my roomate, jana and i are really close. we talk and laugh and lay around and do nothing and smoke and drink and chill and all that good stuff.
my other roomate is actually kind of annoying a lot of the time, but she's never really around because she has a boyfriend, so whatever. i love her despite everything, but it's hard to live with her sometimes. her boyfriend is going home in less than a week though, so things are going to change dramatically very soon, that's for sure.

i'm on a diet and loosing a lot of weight, supposedly. i still can't see the difference, but i never can and everyone says it, so i just believe them.
jana and i are on it together and it works fucking amazingly because it's gotten to the point where i don't even care about the healthiness or like what we want to loose, i just really don't want to listen to jana lecture me about not eating whatever it is that i want. fuck man. it gets physical. she jumped on me once for sneaking a lachmaniya. what a bitch.

anywayyyyy.
there really is not much to do here at all, and we get bored as hell.
we find new ways to entertain ourselves everyday.
like just now daniel hid in leigh and aviah's dark room with a video camera until she opened the door and he screamed BOO! YOU JUST GOT PUNKED!!! and she freaked the fuck out.
that shit is totally normal.
as is screaming, yelling, laughing hysterically, hearing the weirdest noises of your life from 50 feet outside the buliding, finding gross things everywhere, and all kind of other shit like that.

so yeah. that's my life here.
i'm coming home for around 3 weeks in march and april, and i'll probably be bored a lot of the time, so call me if you'd like to see me. i'll have the same cell number.
love.

so basically i'm just going to stop posting in this like all together because none of yall even like read this or comment on it or whatever and it's kind of a waste of my threes hours of internet a week. israel is amazing and that's basically all i have to say.
love.

1. it's cold here already, which is freaking CRAZY. i'm freezing.
2. i'm going home for channukah and i'm so fucking excited that it's not eve fucking funny. i can't wait. i would seriously die if i didn't get to go home. i won't have like any time though because i'm only there for a week, but i'll get to see my family and probably maya and sarah. which is enough to last me until passover. I MISS AUSTIN!
3. everything else here is going well. i love my roomates, and school is ok, and nothing really bad or annoying or lame or like...negative is going on right now. that's good.
4. all of my warm pants are in the laundry until at least tomorrow and i'm cooooold.
5. i got rent from my mom finally and i've already watched it like 4 times since then. i also turned my roomates into little rentheads. it's been constantly on my i pod since they watched it, both for the first time, and they put it on, not me. it's so cute. and me and jana watched it again tonight. i'm supposed to watch it one of these days with one of the older girls named tzippi who is like absolutely obssesed with rent and wicked and broadway musicals in general, so that will be fun.
6. kathryn and i were on myspace at the same time this morning during school, which was very very exciting and cute. you can read our myspaces for proof. i miss her so much. i can't wait to get her letter!
7. i'm expecting so much mail in the next month and i'm so excited about that that i'm already incredibly overwhlemed by it. I LOVE MAIL!!!!!!!
8. hebrew is going well. actually i realized that i made a mistake in the title of my last entry that was in hebrew. oh well. yall don't know the difference.
9. my friend emilie makes fun of the way i talk because i pronounce things wrong supposedly. like forgIt and chImistry and her name...and i say yall...and fixin to...whatever. i'm freaking from texas, what do you expect from me, right?
10. this girl from sugarland and i are getting to be friends. she's cute. we talk about texas and figure out what things we both know about and all that and i have a really good camp friend that goes to her school and it's nice to have someone from home or like...close to it, you know? she says she's from houston. bull. i'm always like, you're not from houston, you're from SUGARLAND. and she's like well at least i'm not from AUSTIN and i'm like...yeah...we don't want you there. actually i've never said that, but it's a good comeback that i just thought of. man. i'll have to remember to use it.
i have to go nowwww. ugh. computer time is up. miss yall.

does the hebrew in the title show up on yall's computers?

i really want an old typewriter. i've seen a series of unfortunate events like 3 times since i've been here and that made me remember that i've always wanted one, and then i just re-read The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Charlie gets one for Christmas, and I really want one. I just feel like it would be a really cool thing to have. not that i would have anywhere to put it in my dorm right now...but some time in my life, i am going to buy an old typewriter and make sure it works correctly and use it a lot. actually, now that i think about it, my next door neighbors used to have one when i would go play at their house when their grandson was over...maybe it's somewhere in their attic or something. that would be cool. they also had one of those old phones with the spinny thing and i used to call home just so i could use it.
the jewish holidays are over until channukah, so my super awesome schedule of having like 4 day weekends and then having like a week and a half off is over. i get a week off for channukah and i'm coming home, but i probably won't have much time to see anyone except maybe sarah and maya. and then passover is in april, and i'm pretty sure i'm still coming home then even though i just decided i was coming for channukah and it's like...expensive. whatever.
Lately I've been getting into bad moods really easily. Some people here just kind of piss me off and I get annoyed really easily these days. I don't know why...but...whatever. 
i'm watching this comedian Russel Peters...he's really funny. he's indian. haha.

yeah. i don't really know what else to say.
love.

i suppose this thing is due for an update.
i am just finishing up a week and a half long sukkot break which has been filled with movie watching, family meeting, lounging, and reading.
i've finished two books since i've been here and am almost finished with another. 
i have like 5 tests coming up in the near future and i didn't study for any of them at all even though school starts again on monday. 
i have a fourth cousin here that i never knew about, she's nice...she lives in Tel Aviv.
i have to pee and the computer room has harsh lighting that i don't enjoy very much and crappy computers with windows 98. 
i'm getting along with everyone here. some people i secretly dislike, but i do a pretty good job of hiding it. and most of them are beginning to prove my secret dislike wrong, which is a good thing. when you're living with 35 other people, it's not wise to have enemies.
i'm never alone here, which is mostly a good thing...when it's not i just take really long showers. even if that happens more than once a day.
you should write me letters. 
Becca Taute
C\O Mosenzon Youth Village
1 Rechov Aliyat Hanoar
P.O. Box 123
Hod Hasharon 45101
ISRAEL
and give that to anyone else who might write me letters, like people at mccallum and everything...rachel, ellen, etc.

yeeeeah. so that's really it. 
love.

i forgot about this thing...
um. 
the holy land is great.
i'm taking 18 hours of hebrew a week.
and a lot of other classes. way more than you...that's for sure.
i miss maya and sarah and tim and anjli. and daniel.
i got my nose pierced. 
IT'S FUCKING CUTE...i'm not gonig to lie to you.
i have some friends here. they're pretty cool.
I don't really know what to say.
ask me a question.
if i am in a good mood, maybe i'll answer.

p.s. when the fuck did kathryn disappear from the face of the earth? if anyone has talked to her (or you are reading this, kathryn) please fucking let me know. shit.

i don't know that i'll be writing in this much in the near future. there are reasons...but really it's just...because...
whatever.
i'm leaving the day after tomorrow.
finally.
i'm so tired of saying goodbye to people.
and explaining to people.
and answering questions.

i got my new cell phone.
it's the same one that everyone rented on the trip.
it's cute.
not really.
but whatever.

basically all of my clothes are packed.
i have to pack all of my shoes and toilettries and all the other stuff that i want to bring. 
it won't take long though.
i'm a packing master. 

i bought two new dvds.
and my dad ordered me some.

i found the perfect way to keep my mess to a minimum for my roomate's sake.
they have these big mesh things that zip up and go under your bed.
i just have to make sure there's room under the beds and call my mom when i get there and she's going to send me some.
that way, i can be as unorganized as i usually am...it just fits nicely under my bed when it needs to.
and i won't have to get out of bed in the mornings because all of my clothes are right there.
it's pretty awesome.
yeah.

sarah is coming over again tomorrow.
and timothy is coming.
and then anjli.
and i'm getting presents.
how sweet.

my party at maya's the other day was basically the most fun ever in my life.
i don't think any party that anyone could have thrown for me or kathryn could have ever been that awesome.
...good thing no one threw me a party...

anyway. yeah. i'm basically done.
i have to figure out what to do with the piles on my bed so that i have somewhere to sleep....

i basically saw everyone except sydney in houston. well. all the girls. i feel bad because i didn't call syd, but it's ok. i had so much fun yesterday. aside from morgan's non-stop talking/bragging/being an idiot at the hooka restaurant, and heather and morgan inching up to jessica's bumper just a little too much, everything was pretty awesome. we basically ate ALL DAY yesterday. 
i talked to gilad with ryan and tory. that was fun. and hilarious. and i miss him so much. and he's leaving the 8th, so i probably won't be able to see him, like i thought. i need to call liran and batchen and figure that whole thing out. shit. i miss them sooooo much. aaaah.
less then a week, guys. are you ready for this? i am. 

pictures when i get home. 
love.

nine days until i leave. eleven until i'm in the holy land.
how fucking nerve racking.
i got an email today from my counselor...his name is Moshe.
i'm so...anxious.
i don't know ANYONE.
not one person.
but fuck...i'm so excited!
it's still really scary though...i mean...yeah.
whatever.
anyway.
my calendar says that the first weekend i'm there is an 'in' weekend...which i understand, but it really SUCKS because I was hoping to see Batchen and Gilad before they leave, but the next weekend is when they go off on their little adventures and whatnot and I won't be able to see them unless they come visit me, but I don't think they will. and Liran is leaving too, but she lives in the city where my school is, so it's not really a big deal for her to come visit me. i mean. she probably lives like down the street or something. ok...maybe not...but i think it's a pretty small city. anyway. i really hope i can see my BFF because I would be really upset if i didn't get to before she went off to south america. and gilad is going to italy. aaaah. the only reason i was semi-ok when i left them was that i could say, "see you soon" and it was true...and now...it's like...not. 
ryan and tory and i need to call gilad this weekend when i'm in houston. most of the reserve forces are supposed to be home by then, if not all, and i really hope he answers his phone and is like...healthy and everything. ugh. talk about stress....

i don't know what else to write...but i can't sleep.
damn.

my passover break starts March 24th...write it on your calendar, ok?
call me soon because i need to see you.
love, becca.

p.s. I know what I'm going to put on your "my best friend..." shirt. I'll make it for you as soon as I can. i love you.