A Major Milestone

Last night something huge happened to me. I went to see DJ Cut Chemist, of Jurassic 5, at Cafe Barzilay, my favorite club in Israel. It was a pretty major hip hop event, and I expected to see anybody who was anybody there at the show. What I did not expect was to spend much time with friends who enjoy hip hop. Every time I try to bring friends out to things like this, they come up with some excuse, and I'm on my own. But not this time. I actually found friends there, and brought a few others. For the first time, I spent more time with people I was hanging out with than with rappers to whomI would introduce myself. Sure, I saw some rappers, and even talked to a few of them. But of those even, some are genuinely my friends. I think it's fair to say I've come a long way since the beginning of the year.
And I'm realizing, slowly, that my interest in being the Israeli hip hop expert is in many ways because I want to be a part of the "hip hop community." But I don't really know what kind of community that is, and I'm not becoming fast friends with rappers and DJs across the board. Instead, I'm leading a semi-normal life. And as hard as it tries, my job with Ramah Seminar isn't ruining that. Sure, I have tons of sixteen and seventeen year-old friends again, but they're not my only social life. To say that I've gone from having no social life to more than one is huge. And one of them may even still be around when I come back after my summer break.
So I'm glad that something somewhat normal is turning up in my life. Because those who know, know that that other aspect of social lives was anything but normal for me lately! But at least it was there!