How about I come home and sit down and just type for a really long time and hope it's interesting enough for people to read?

Yes, I think that's a good idea.
First order of business: the pictures I posted yesterday only show up to me about every other time I open the page, is it just my internet or are other people having the same problem?  Please let me know in the comment area so if they don't work, I can fix them.
Moving on: right now, I am sitting n the couch, still in my MDA uniform.  I worked last night/this morning, and just got home a few minutes ago.  The house- at least from the view I get from here on the couch- is a mess, so I'm debating whether it's worth it to clean or wait to see it the people who actually made the mess clean.  However, I've been home from work for at least ten minutes, and I haven't seen anybody.  Either they're still asleep after a crazy night last night (when I left they were talking about bringing out Monopoly), or they're all out. I know some left for the weekend, but others should still be here.  My guess is that if I make myself food, the smell will bring them into the kitchen area if they're home.  Except, and this is the great thing about my life, I don't need to make myself food because we got pastries and coffee at the station this morning.  I woke up, walked out into the common room area, and was given coffee and food.  How great is that?  Yes, I'm sore because the beds are not exceptionally comfortable, but overall I got a lot of sleep before and after the one call we got.
While I sit here and wonder if I want another cup of coffee or not, I'm also thinking about a program we had yesterday.  A Reform Rabbi from Chicago who made Aliyah quite a while ago came and gave us a seminar on minorities in the Galilee, specifically in Karmiel.  We talked for a while about the history of who lived where and when, and then discussed the rights of minorities in a "Jewish state."  We then talked to an Arab woman who grew up in a village, moved to a big city, and then moved to Karmiel.  Karmiel is known to be a nice little Jewish town, but there is a plethora of Arab villages all around.  We talked for a very long time about the complexity of the relationship between Jews and Arabs within Karmiel and the outlying areas, which is much different than the relationship between Jews and Arabs who live in different countries.  Then we went to where a few Beduin families live in Karmiel and heard about their struggle and what's been happening there recently.  It was interesting to hear their side, but we also heard about what the government and local municipality have been trying to do and it seems like they're both wrong and they're both right, and at this point, no one can be made happy.  When we went back and talked more among our group and Mark, the rabbi.  The Arab woman we had talked with earlier told us that you can't have co-existence until there is just existence.  That is, until the Jewish population of Karmiel and the the Arabs in the villages who live together actually recognize each other and work together and stop discriminating, there won't be peace.  When I asked her if she thought that started at a legislative level, to more or less force change (like making laws that would require a certain amount of Arabs to be hired at a factory, something like America's equal opportunity laws) or at a cultural level, where the people themselves change the way society itself works, and thus make the governmental changes after, she said it had to be a grassroots campaign.  Her opinion is that if people like herself and the rabbi we meet with get together and play nice and become friends and start a book club together, and advocate for others to do the same, then it will grow and grow until everyone is tolerant and comfortable with each other, and then equal rights for minorities will start showing up more prominently in the legislature.
As nice as that seems, we also had a discussion about this after she left.  What about those Jews who want to live in a Jewish state with Jews and Hebrew and Jewish culture?  What about the Arabs who don't want Jews and Hebrew and Jewish culture in their villages?  If they are given the right to live with whomever they want, then it conflicts with other's peoples right to live wherever they want.  A purely secular, coexistent land is a nice thing to say and hope for, but in reality, it really isn't what a lot of people want.  And the right to live where you want versus the right to live with who you want will always clash.  So what do we do about it?  Although our group came up with many humorous and creative answers, no one could think of a realistic and logical way to solve this problem.  And I don't know about the others, but it's been in my head ever since.
On an extremely lighter note (you might argue that I'm trying to cleanse my confusion with an easier topic to think about now), we only have a few more days left in Karmiel.  I know some people say that there's nothing to do here and they're bored sometimes, but when you really look at what they're saying, you realize that these are the few that sleep all day and work very few hours, if any at all, and just eat and play games all day everyday.  I, on the other hand, work a lot (because I love my job more than anything), picked up an extra activity when I chose to help coach soccer, and I've made friends outside out our little Netzer group.  I really like staying here, and although I am really excited for Etgar and Jerusalem, I know I'll miss it here.  My hours can be horrid sometimes, but that's because I picked them that way.  I left for work at 10:30pm and got home at 9:30am the next day, and I didn't even have to work today.  So it's really my fault, but I have no regrets.  I've been running on the least amount of sleep I've ever gotten over these past few months and it's worth it.  I've been eating really really badly lately, interspersed with some very good meals.  For example, last night I made pasta (I'm getting good at making pasta, but really nothing else) for everyone- and then did all the dishes, thankyouverymuch- which is mostly healthy, and then this morning I had two pastries and a cup of nescafe and a cup of turkish coffee.  I've found out that I really like turkish coffee, oddly.  You should be proud of me, because I chose the pastries without the chocolate.  If that isn't maturity, I don't know what is.
As for the state our our flat, you'll be impressed with some aspects but disgusted with others.  We have mold in a few of the rooms and and ant problem in the kitchen.  We started out with a lot of cups that all had handles, and now I think we might still have one with a handle somewhere.  Two outlets in the kitchen don't work, and we have to light the stove with a handheld lighter.  Our table has stains in all colors and shapes and sizes, and I don't even want to mention that state our our floor.  The bathroom is surprisingly clean because one of our roommates read something online about the diseases you can get from dirty toilets so she now obsessively cleans it.  My room, however, is pretty neat.  Well, my area of the room; I can't really say the same for my roommates.  I know now that isn't my fault that my room was never clean at home, it's Samantha's fault.
More flat news: We had four Apple laptops, but only three chargers after mine was taken by the French in an intense Beit Yehuda rivalry.  Last night we dropped down to two, when Ariel managed to melt a piece of Jake's that was on the stovetop.  The weird part of this is that it is more acceptable to leave your charger on the stovetop for extended periods of time than it is to turn the stovetop on without checking to see if there's a charger there.
We all expect the two fish we have living here to die, and for it to happen before we leave (on the 7th).  But nobody likes talking about it, and nobody knows what to do if they don't die.  We can't kill them, because Netzer Olami has got to have a pillar somewhere about being nice to animals, and we can't take them with us.  The rest of us are leaving it up to the two people who bought them to figure it out.
Yes, we still have Hanukkah decorations up.  No, we don't plan on taking them don't until the day we move out.
Someone ate pasta last night after 10:30pm (when I left for work) and before 9:30am (when I came home).  When I left, everyone had already eaten dinner or expressed their desire not to eat a large meal because of the large lunch they had consumed earlier in the day.  I'm not really sure what happened, but whoever it was did not clean up, leaving themselves open to harassment from the group over our new rule of not eating unnecessarily due to our increasing lack of food.  If they had just washed their dishes they would have never been found out...
That is the State of Karmiel.  Anything else that has happened is either irrelevant, inappropriate, or sworn to complete secrecy.


P.S. If you want me to talk more about any one subject in particular, like the classes I'm taking or the religious aspect or my job or living with these eight other crazy people or how my toes are doing, or you have a specific question, please just ask!  You can question, critic, and comment as much as you want here.