Another Day, and Anticipation

Today's major events: shopping with my grandma, and her letting me drive, both ways, without any visible white knuckles, Or gasps. I was pretty proud, since she's a pretty anxious individual. And the other major event: my Mom now has a livejournal (and knows about mine's existance)- she's azpuchaz, based on her old family nickname, long before I, or even Dad came into the picture. So I'm curious as to how that interaction pattern will unfold. I've certainly found that different modes of interaction create really different dynamics between folks, so this should be an all-new approach, or at least a brand new supplemental form of communication.

Tomorrow I/We head off for dance camp. Mom's actually driving this year, which is impressive, and we're giving a ride to someone else from our session/Boston (also a college student) too. I'm looking forward to it, but am also sort of nervous. That's usually how I feel before a camp, since they're never purely good or purely bad experiences- there's too Much going on for that. And well, good experiences are highlighted by a sprinkling of bad ones, so I oughtn't complain. But still- they dynamics at every camp are different, even between the same people, and there are always variations. I'm also nervous about Shabbat- it's my first camp, believe it or not, since I started really being serious at all about shmirat Shabbat. ANd I'm not really sure what I'm going to do. There are, luckily enough, Shabbat services and the like. But it's going to seem like quite a cultural change to be at camp, and not be dancing, if I don't dance, and just to be in Shabbat-mode in general. I'm hoping that it goes well. But I'm really not sure what it'll be like. At least I know that I'll have at least one friend there who'll also be observing- but once again, it's a new worship experience (something that intimidates me, but I do enjoy), and a rather different place for it. Unlike so many folks, I never did the Jewish camp thing, so Shabbat in a camp environment is a completely new experience for me. (Let alone a camp environment filled with Israeli Dance Junkies.) So I don't know what to prepare for, or what sorts of compromises I'll need to or want to make. Guess this is how I learn (amidst the dozens of dances I'll be learning- hope there are actually some good ones this time).

Another Day, and Anticipation

Today's major events: shopping with my grandma, and her letting me drive, both ways, without any visible white knuckles, Or gasps. I was pretty proud, since she's a pretty anxious individual. And the other major event: my Mom now has a livejournal (and knows about mine's existance)- she's azpuchaz, based on her old family nickname, long before I, or even Dad came into the picture. So I'm curious as to how that interaction pattern will unfold. I've certainly found that different modes of interaction create really different dynamics between folks, so this should be an all-new approach, or at least a brand new supplemental form of communication.

Tomorrow I/We head off for dance camp. Mom's actually driving this year, which is impressive, and we're giving a ride to someone else from our session/Boston (also a college student) too. I'm looking forward to it, but am also sort of nervous. That's usually how I feel before a camp, since they're never purely good or purely bad experiences- there's too Much going on for that. And well, good experiences are highlighted by a sprinkling of bad ones, so I oughtn't complain. But still- they dynamics at every camp are different, even between the same people, and there are always variations. I'm also nervous about Shabbat- it's my first camp, believe it or not, since I started really being serious at all about shmirat Shabbat. ANd I'm not really sure what I'm going to do. There are, luckily enough, Shabbat services and the like. But it's going to seem like quite a cultural change to be at camp, and not be dancing, if I don't dance, and just to be in Shabbat-mode in general. I'm hoping that it goes well. But I'm really not sure what it'll be like. At least I know that I'll have at least one friend there who'll also be observing- but once again, it's a new worship experience (something that intimidates me, but I do enjoy), and a rather different place for it. Unlike so many folks, I never did the Jewish camp thing, so Shabbat in a camp environment is a completely new experience for me. (Let alone a camp environment filled with Israeli Dance Junkies.) So I don't know what to prepare for, or what sorts of compromises I'll need to or want to make. Guess this is how I learn (amidst the dozens of dances I'll be learning- hope there are actually some good ones this time).