"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried
anything new."
-Albert Einstein
Naomi-
The first time I led services, was at my bat mitzvah. I was incredibly nervous and felt as though I
was totally unprepared. Seeing that it was in the morning, my voice was still
slightly hoarse and I was still waking up.
It didn’t go perfectly; in fact it was far from perfect. I’m pretty sure I miss-pronounced about 99%
of all the words that came out of my mouth. My Drash presentation went far from
smooth. I didn’t deliver it clearly and
the actual written Drash was short and quite a bit choppy. If I led services I’d definitely change some
things about it.
Mari-
When I was 9 years old, my parents and I traveled to Mexico.
I was in 5th grade so we had not been introduced to the Spanish
language yet in school, and so I barely knew any Spanish. My parents knew
enough to get us around the city, but I had no idea what was going on. So one
day we went to the beach, and I met a girl there that did not speak a word of
English, but I wanted to play with her and get to know her. I asked my parents
what to say, and they told me to ask her what her name was by saying como se llama. I tried to have a
conversation with this girl, but I think that she thought that I was weird
because I just kept on asking what her name was. After this event, and now that
I am in my second year of Spanish, I believe that I would have a much better
and easier time communicating and making my way around Mexico.
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