Oh god, I never did BB, but my sister did, and she fucking hated it. She doesn't look Jewish at all, and the fact that she was only a halfie and from Southfield turned everyone against her. I always felt totally out of place in Hebrew school. It was so obvious the teachers couldn't stand me because I refused to deny that my Jewishness was just an ethnic thing, and a half ethnic thing at that.
When I was up in Ann Arbor this weekend with my friends David and Josh we spent three or four hours just bitching about how screwed up most of the Jews in metro Detroit are. David went to high school with me, but Josh's parents moved up to West Bloomfield before he started middle school, and he says it was the worst place on the face of the earth. Everyone up there is a fucking fraud.
I got the token Jew vibe in college, too. We had slightly under two thousand students and of those maybe 25 were Jewish (or at least that's the number of Jewish-ish names I counted in the directory). The faculty had a bit more. But it was quite a culture shock. "Everyone here is white! And from farm country! What the fuck?"
Oh, your nose isn't big. You have kind of off-kilter geeky good looks. (Here's something interesting you could try this summer, though, just for fun: get your hair straightened and see just how long it would be. I'm guessing it'd be down to your waist.)
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Date: 2008-05-27 07:10 pm (UTC)When I was up in Ann Arbor this weekend with my friends David and Josh we spent three or four hours just bitching about how screwed up most of the Jews in metro Detroit are. David went to high school with me, but Josh's parents moved up to West Bloomfield before he started middle school, and he says it was the worst place on the face of the earth. Everyone up there is a fucking fraud.
I got the token Jew vibe in college, too. We had slightly under two thousand students and of those maybe 25 were Jewish (or at least that's the number of Jewish-ish names I counted in the directory). The faculty had a bit more. But it was quite a culture shock. "Everyone here is white! And from farm country! What the fuck?"
Oh, your nose isn't big. You have kind of off-kilter geeky good looks. (Here's something interesting you could try this summer, though, just for fun: get your hair straightened and see just how long it would be. I'm guessing it'd be down to your waist.)