Tehilla

Tehilla My name is Tehilla; I'm 15 years old – the oldest sibiling to 4 brothers. I made my mother and father into parents and made my grandparents grandma and grandpa. As you see I'm the oldest child in my family (although I do have twin cousins very close to my age). I live in Alon Shvut, a settlement in Gush Etzion, and have lived here my whole life. A thing that I really like about my family is the fact that there are only nine grandchildren (on my father's side), and that we all live within five minutes of each other – which makes us all really close. Aside from that, my grandparents take us on really fun vacations twice a year (on Pesach – to Netanya, to a beach hotel and during the summer vacation we go to bungalows up north, near rivers where we kayak…) which we wait for all year long. We have great fun every single time we go. The place that I love most is the Kinneret: it’s the calmest place I know and really helps you think clearly about everything. While swimming you can open your eyes and see the ocean clearly under water. I love the feeling of being able to see things you can't normally see. Having changes in my life and letting things go with the flow makes life interesting and unexpected. The thing I enjoy doing most is being with family and friends – just hanging out and enjoying each other's company. I love going with my friends on free afternoons to "Ein Sajma" (a natural spring of water). Ein Sajma is only twenty minutes away by foot; it's a very pastoral place, with picnic tables and of course the water (that is always freezing cold). It's a great place to just hang out, not too far and very satisfying. Other than that, I like watching comedy, action and tragic movies – and like reading dramas mostly.

A motto I really believe in is, "If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin" ( [|Ivan Turgenev] ). I know that many times in life you wait for everything to be perfect before you could move on, taking the next step, but sometimes you need t know when to go on, in order to make things better and to progress. I try to live by that motto in my daily life, and hope to succeed.