Passover!!!

I just gave an adorable little passover seder during lunch time.

We read the plagues, but instead of dipping our finger in wine each time we read a plague, we drank un petit gout of wine. Jews and Non-Jews came and everyone got a taste of Schackner Passover culture! I passed around the afikoman cover, and I had everyone analyze the picture. After each person analyzed the afikoman cover, they got a piece of candy! When I hid the afikoman, everyone went bananas and it was great. I had everyone contribute a little bit, and the winner, Sarah, won 5 euros!

I also questioned, "Why is this night different from any other nights?" and not many people knew, especially because we did the seder during lunch time. Nonetheless, everyone broke Matzah and got a little tipsy before their afternoon classes. I would say it was a great day.

Fan2

Fan2 is the name of the French magazine I bought today, which is essentially the J-14 of France. With Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber on the cover, I rationalized buying it because my level of french is probably comparable to that of a teenage girl.

I get really excited as Thursday approaches for two reasons. The first being, that it's Thursday. The second, that it's the day of my choir which I love. I would say about 90% of the choral singers are 60+ and they are hilarious. The Soprano 2's have more sass than you would imagine, so luckily that's my vocal part. After my chorus days of middle/high school, I never thought I would do a choir again. However, each week as I walk to my new choir, I have fond memories of performing "Got to Get You Into My Life" (and 2 and 3 and 4 and), "America" from West Side Story, "Cherish," and "My Sha-la-la-la-locker's Stuck."

Today my mother sent me a delicious package of passover goodies. To name a few: mini chocolate covered matzahs, chocolate covered matzah, matzah, jellies candies, matzah ball soup mix, KEDEM'S GRAPE JUICE (A MILLION TIMES YES), macaroons, and a series of haggadah's. There are a few Jews here at AUCP, so I think we're going to try to have a Passover seder. Non-Jews want to come too... and what's a Schackner passover seder without the respective non-Jew each season? I don't know how I'll be able to do it in French, but I could try to communicate the other French way like with copious amounts of food.