The Bruin Boy Bunch

No We Are Not Crazy!

The process of selecting a college is not easy...for the child or the parent you are all looking for different things.... what degrees are available? class size? Housing? sports teams? parties? and in Sam's case the location and frequency of Bomb Shelters. Now we were not originally looking for that kind of information when she decided to go on Nativ http://www.usy.org/programs/nativ/ but this was a program that she was talking about long before the latest breaking news coming out of Israel . Family and Friends have all been asking why, last night my Aunt Bubbles really got me with

"Tell me your not sending my beautiful niece into that mess"

The answer is that "no I am not sending her she, is going willingly and with much excitement"

When Samantha went on USY pilgrimage back in 2004 she left more interested in being with her friends and seeing the world. What more is there at 16 that to be with 44 of your favorite people and 5 countries in 6 weeks. It was, to quote her the summer of a lifetime and she was right. After that trip she came back with a new mission, first to go on HeChalutzim (spelling doesn't count) which she did in February of 2005 and she learned to heard goats (go ahead and ask her about it), and then to go on Nativ to spend her first year in college in Israel studying and helping make the country better and stronger.

Yes that really is her taking care of the weeds on the hill.

Sam loves Israel and that is her passion... so how can you tell a kid to find something to be passionate about and then when they do, not support them in their endeavors.

Living has its risks and if you don't take life on with everything you have offered to you, then there will always some questions left with regards to what you have done.


When she is questioned about the situation in Israel she has basically 2 answers:

1. It's about F_ _ _ing time that Israel was able to defend itself.

2. She equated being afraid to the 1st level of hell in "Dante's Inferno" those people who sit on the fence and stand for nothing and she does not want that.

So we have 49 more days until Sammie leaves to follow her passion and never be accused of sitting on a wall. Everyone keep a prayer in your heart and an eye on the blog to see how she is doing.