SidheRa

This sounds like total fun. I’m so there.

When I started college, I signed up with Hillel there and really intended to get involved.

I didn’t.

Now I’m entering grad school, and I want so desperately to sign up with Hillel here and get involved, but I’m afraid of disappointing myself again.

Really, I would just settle for getting the hell off my ass and going to services for the high holy days and fasting all six times this year.

I had several pen pals in middle/high school, all of whom were arranged through my French class. One day, out of the blue, I got a letter from a girl in Italy named Isabella. I never stayed in touch with all the other pen pals, but Isabella and I wrote back and forth to each other from the time I was in seventh grade to the present.

In college, I studied abroad in Italy and had the opportunity to meet Isa, her friends, and family face-to-face. I learned more about the country, the language, and being human in that week than I ever have anywhere else.

We still exchange mail sometimes, and I really need to write to her more often.

Everyone should have a pen pal.