Last week (not this week which will be in my next post)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I hate my Brain!!!!! I also love it… but i think i mostly hate it. I’m seriously thinking of recording the stuff i want to say and then type it all up later. So you know how back when vcrs still existed you could fast forward but still see what is happening so you don't skip too far ahead, which causes the ppl to talk a million miles a second. Well that is my brain on normal play mode and whenever i try to slow it down it works for about five seconds then crashes and |I can't think of anything else to say when five seconds ago my brain was overflowing with things to say. Is there a place i can get a new brain?

Seriously a the rate things are going i can only write about a paragraph a day before i give up...

This post im going to make more like a timeline for this past 2 weeks.

Sunday:

kept trying to reach Miriam (the english speaking rakezet who works with lone bnot sherut ) through call email and text. I watched a lot of izombie, and didn't really do much… Oh and late afternoon batya Americus randomly called to see what was going on with me and sherut leumi, then she proceeded to me an interview with National Bnei Akiva on tuesday (found out during interview it was for for administrative work). Apparently she works in the same building that they do (found that little piece of information on tuesday). Got excited.

Monday:

Mother dragged me out of bed to go to the soup kitchen with her and my sister (my sister tends to have mondays off of work). On our way to the soup kitchen we stopped at a pharmacy that sells homeopathic pills to prevent us from getting the flu, and general immune system boosters. After the soup kitchen we went to the mall to do window shopping and get lunch at Greg's. While there got a text from my brother saying he spoke to his commander and that they are going to start the process for having him switch units, but it's going to take a while (like everything in the army)... My sister took the bus home because she needed to pick up Gilad by a certain time from daycare, while my mom took me to therapy. After therapy we had to stop at my sister's place to drop off the pills cause she left them in the car. I decided to stay and hung out with my sister and the boo whom i ended up putting to sleep in monkey pjs (his choice that i gladly put on him). And Miriam FINALLY texted me saying she doesn't work sundays or mondays. So I texted her asking when i could call her tomorrow MORNING. she said I could call her after 5:30 PM. Annoying but fine.

Tuesday:

So as you guys now i have my interview today. I woke up at 8:30, got ready, and was to nervous to eat. We left at 10 so we could drop my sister and dad off at their jobs. At 10:30 I get a call on my cellphone, after taking a moment realizing i didn't know the number I decided to answer. It was the place I was going to interview for asking me when I made Aliya/came to israel (because people assume you came to live in israel the same time you made Aliya). They needed to know because they could only have someone who made aliya up to five years ago. I automatically said 8 years ago because that's when we came, and I can never remember when we made aliya because when we did we didn't make a big deal of it. she apologized for calling so late and that i can’t Interview for them because it was more than 5 years. Everyone was still in the car at this point and i explained to my parents what happened. My father then asked me If they asked when i Made Aliya or when i came to Israel because we only made Aliya april 3rd 2011. I told him I didn't remember, which was true. He told me to call them back and find out for sure. So i called back and i got an automatic machine but i didn't realize that because the person who recorded it was the same person i had originally spoken to and it didn't sound like a machine. The message basically did the whole ”if you want to reach person A press 1, if you want to reach person B press 2...” thing for FIVE minutes!!! And of course I didn’t know who the person that i wanted to reach was so  just hung up and asked my dad what to do. he told me to call the number back and press 0 which should automatically put me through to human. So i did that and the person picked up the phone and without saying anything hung up. I told my dad, he said to try again (but i had the feeling that wouldn't get me anywhere/the same thing would happen) So i called Batya and asked her to run upstairs and tell them when i actually made Aliya. She did and they got excited again, and she told me that apparently the whole building shares the number that called me which is why it gave me sooooo many options of who to talk to. The building has 4 floor and at least 3 offices on each floor with a bunch of different ppl working in each office… GGGGrrrr. but whatever i at least still had my interview.

So we drop off my sister and dad at their works. I ended up getting to my place at 11:10, so i called Batya and hung out with her until my interview and she walked me upstairs (She works on the first floor and my interview was on the top floor). The secretary for bnei akiva had disappeared for whatever reason (she was the one who i had apparently spoken to on the phone). So Batya being Batya knocked on the door of the dude who was supposed to interview me and asked him if he was ready for me. He was, so she left and we talked. It went ok in the beginning, I got to speak in english. He had questions prepared, and we got along. The main issues i felt were that i was never part of a youth movement/group when i was younger and that i had never had a real leadership role before. The last thing he asked me was if there was anything I wanted to add about myself and of course I completely blanked and said “not that i can think of, which is probably not very original…”

The whole thing lasted a minimum of 15 minutes. He thanked me for coming in and said the other person isn't ready for me yet and that i might have to repeat some of the things i said. My immediate thought was “ANOTHER INTERVIEW!?!?! NOBODY EVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT HAVING TO DO 2 INTERVIEWS!!!! WHY COULDN'T HE HAVE SAT IN ON THIS INTERVIEW AND ADDED ANY QUESTIONS HE WANTED TO INSTEAD OF HAVING ME REPEAT THINGS??!! but fine whatever. The receptionist still hadn't returned so he said I can go back downstairs and hang out with Batya until my next interviewer is ready. So i go downstairs and talk with Batya. Five minutes later Batya gets a call on her landline. It’s the secretary who had (finally) returned, saying i should come upstairs so they don’t forget about me (which i thought was weird because it was her boss who suggested i wait downstairs). so i go back up and talk to the secretary for about 60 seconds before the person who’s supposed to interview me comes out and says he’s ready for me. so I follow him into the office/conference room. There is another person who is already sitting in there whom he was talking to earlier (I found out later his name was david or daniel, it's been two weeks i don’t exactly remember his name so we are going to call him second dude). I thought that Mr. Da would leave but he didn’t. So apparently he was going to sit in the interview. And of course the main guy sits nowhere near him...

who the hell was i supposed to look at!!!???!!! If i tried to look at both of them I would get whiplash. So I looked at the main dude because he was the one asking almost all the questions. And of course talking to him was like awkwardly talking to a wall. The first interviewer was 100 times easier to talk to and i was still awkward in that interview... And I forgot to repeat some points. He asked me if i had ever done administrative work. i said no which was basically true. I mean i’m fresh out of high school where would i have done administrative work? Whatever THAT interview was overall bad. Plus they didn’t know if they could hire me for “free” because of when I made aliya which would be 5 years in the beginning of april. I had a feeling that i didn’t get in but they said he would have to talk to the first interviewer about me. My suspicions were all but “officially confirmed” when the second dude gave me the number of an organization that might be able to help me find sherut leumi (I got an “official” no when they called me a week later turning me down).

Fast forward to 6:30 Pm I try and call Miriam, and she didn’t answer. Silly me for thinking she might answer for once.

Wednesday:

I call her at some point in the morning. And she answers!!! Only to ask if she can call me back in a few hours… I said yes because she needed her computer in front of her. And naturally she doesn't call me back. So I try to call her and guess what. She doesn't answer. I don’t remember what else i did today.

Thursday:

I call her. She answers, I tell her I interviewed for the Bnei akiva place and want to interview for the other place she had offered when i spoke to her the first time. She says I can’t interview for there in the end because it's through a different organization, at least that's what i understood. She said I was out of options for what I was looking for In jerusalem but if I was interested in Tel-Aviv I could interview for the Michael Levin Lone Soldier Center and Nefesh B’Nefesh their lone soldier division. I told her I wasn’t interested in Tel-Aviv and I’m going to try other organizations but if I change my mind i would let her know.

Now I just have to call the other organizations to find out they’re options for me...