Aviv essays

Messy Room
I would like to tell you about my room. Be default, it's a mess. I love everything to be in order, but am way too lazy to maintain it that way, especially when it gets messed up every single week by the cleaning lady. I don't mind the mess usually, as most of it is caused by me neglecting my room and the hordes of crap I never use that's stored in it, but sometimes I do go into a cleaning frenzy and make the room spotless. I don't clean it, just put stuff back in order.

This one time I remember in praticular, I woke up one morning and began cleaning the aftermath of the party I hosted the night before. There were plastic one-time-use cups everywhere, some bastard messed with my guitar and got it completely out of tune, breaking two strings in the act, my guitars were lying in disarray on the bed in the next room, some guy sat on my couch and broke the handle off somehow, there were beers sitting around, and the floors were dirty with spilled cokes etc. Me and two friends who slept over began cleaning the place up, using the stereo from the night before to have some fun while we were at it.

Overall, as far as I'm concerned, my room is clean. Most of the time, my mom has something else to say about, including cleaning that up, putting that over there back in order, etc. I Clean it out of my own accord sometimes, so I think thats really not necessary, but I gotta listen to mom! Aviv.

Family Birth Order Thingy
The order of birth in a family matters a lot, since usually, the older a kid is he takes more responsibility to himself, and frequently he forgets to forfeit some of it to his younger brother or sister, and the younger child gets somewhat of a third parent. As a result, according to their position in the family, the kid's personality is shaped to be different, even with the exact same education. I'm the second and youngest child in my family, and my sister, who's older than me by almost exactly 4 years and 4 months, is obviously the older sibling. I think that she is somewhat of an exception that proves the rule, as I can't think of any responsibilities she hasn't forfeited to me, then again, only an observer can really see that kind of stuff clearly.

My sister studies at the University of Tel-Aviv (And changes her major about 7 times per semester). And I'm still at school, for my final year of high school. My sister and I used to fight when we were younger, and she'd kick my ass, but as time went on we became very good friends, and some people have said that our personalities are basically the same, with male/female and some age modifications. We talk about absolute nonsense every now and then (and that includes my parents usually). Stuff like how our dog is actually an antelope, sheep, cow or a rug (That is one of our favorite subjects, pretty much).

In conclusion, my relationship with my sister is great, and so is my relationship with my parents. My sister calls me on weird stuff, and I do the same to her, and life is great. And in a way, if stuff were the other way around, with me being the eldest, I don't think it would be the same. Aviv Rozenboim.

Personal Speech
My name is Aviv Rozenboim, I was born on the 10th of May in 1991, and have lived in Netanya happily ever since, moving only once from neighbourhood to neighbourhood. My mom is romanian, and my father is polish, and so I get to eat alot of meat, which is awesome. TO BE CONTINUED

Three Wishes
Different people wish for different things, generally, but when confronted with only three wishes, most wish for three things: wealth, health and family. In this essay, I will explore what would I wish for, except those.

In the very utopian time in which I'll get three wishes granted, I think I might wish for an automatically-upgrading PC, which I will use for everything, from movies to video games to coding my way to world domination. Asimov had a similar idea in his story "Alexander the God" about a supercomputer to help him rule the world, which ultimately failed due to Alexander's huge ambitions to literally rule the world. I simply want a huge pile of cash.

With two wishes left, I'd wish for infinite musical knowledge and talent, and the necessary muscle strength to control my fingers, arms and feet quickly and accurately so that I can play anything there is to play, and play it well.

And as for my last wish, I think super-powers would fir nicely. Something like the powers of X-Men's Jean Grey (Massive telekinesis and telepathy), or possibly the power of Heroes's Adam Monroe (Regenerating body – immortality), would be great.

In conclusion, it seems that with "normal" wishes banned, I go mainly for the supernatural (or at the very least, hugely improbable). I would probably use those abilities to achieve my "normal" wishes, but the question of what would I do with my "newfound" talents/possessions should really be the subject of a different article.

Rosh HaShana
On every Rosh HaShana our entire family gets together at a random house of one of us, and he hosts 2-3 days (usually the third day is at a different house). This year, we hosted Rosh HaShana, and it was a weird, self-torturing kind of fun, what with my 4 years old niece poking around in my room and messing it all up. (Waking up in the middle of the night to find a bloody tambourine in your bed isn't exactly delightful) My mom and dad cooked most of the food, with my grandmothers bringing something they made aswell (Soup and Gefilte Fish, this year, both of which were delicious). The soup and the homemade schnitzel my mom made were good, and that was most of what I ate. Thats a typical Rosh HaShana for us. No hassle, just food and some conversation afterwards. On the history side of things, Rosh HaShana is the holiday that occours on the 1st of the first month of the hebrew calender, and is basically Jew's New Years.

Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur is a day of abstaining from food and water, to show the grief and sorrow that we have over the people that we hurt in the past year. As such, it is placed on the very beginning of the year, right next to Rosh HaShana. Yom Kippur lasts 24 hours, from sundown to sundown. Right before the beginning of Yom Kippur, theres a large meal which concludes all eating for the following 24 hours. At the end of the 24 hours is another big meal, which satifies everyone's hunger and thirst after a day of not eating. No one travels during these times, and using electricity is also banned. As such, children (who can't stand not eating for a whole 24 hours) have developed a tradition of riding around on bicycles the first night, and usually the following morning-noon aswell. Since theres no traffic and the use of electricity is forbidden, most people go roam the streets with their family and friends, which is a lot of fun.