Sunday, February 10, 2008

Kaveret, and kvutza life

So finally, the long awaited second half of the workshop tochnit is here. Has been here for quite some time, almost a month now. So now I've gotten here, settled in, started to call my lovely house in Akko home... and I'm still not happy. I'm happier living as I am than as I was in the states, to be sure. But I've discovered just how difficult it is to be living with 24 people, people with lifestyles (most of them, anyway) very different then mine, people who I can't simply ignore because I care about them because I'm in a kvutza with them. But I don't think that Kaveret is making me closer with my kvutza - I don't know them any better than I did when I started. All it is making me do is realize just how little some people care about many of the things I value, and how little I feel they care about me. Stupid kvutza.