Display Name: Aliza
Gender: female
Home Town: New Jersey
Current City of Residence: Jerusalem
Favorite City outside of Jerusalem: The towns and homes that sprinkle the rolling hills and flowered mountains of the north where the Serene is more calm and the Pace of Things doesn't rush
Yeshiva/Seminary Attended : Migdal Oz
Occupation : student of English Literature; sociology and anthropology
Interests or Hobbies : creating new out of old; arts and crafts; jumping into ma'ayanot; baking bread and eating it fresh out of the oven; challenging myself; drinking tea; testing my boundaries; learning from people; learning about myself from people; being near water; wandering the Shuk; picking olives to make olive oil; meandering through streets and paths and alleys of yerushalayim; staying calm; capturing happiness and knowledge to store away in neatly lined mason jars
Random Questions:
What's the earliest you've gotten up to watch cartoons and what did you see?
Watching cartoons was never an early morning activity for me. TV in general did not appeal to me. It may have been some innate aversion to television or the fact that my family only had one tv screen in the house and thus watching it required me to sit a foot from the tv as I attempted to hold the antenna in a good position and simultaneously catch a glimpse of the show. It was a difficult task. And so I gave it up. I think it was one of the few things in life I gave up and yet do not regret. There are so many other wonderful things in life that do not require me to sit immobile as I hold an antenna.
What's your favorite planet and why?
I can't really say I've had too much exposure to planets—at least not enough to foster sentiments of favoritism. Fourth grade, though, did change that a bit. It was a project on the planets. And it was scary and daunting and overwhelming. But I conquered it. I conquered Uranus. I picked up that pencil and wrote and drew pictures with colored pencils and I have the product to prove it. It was a masterpiece and I was nine and I mastered it. I was really proud.
