Back Again

Hello everyone,
I know I have not posted in over a month. I am sorry and have no excuse. I am just lazy.
Since I last posted a lot has happened. My parents and my brother and sister were here from April 5th to the 15th. That was a big change of schedule for me. I stayed in Tel Aviv with them for most of the time. We had a wonderful time traveling to places like Cesaria and going on tours of the Old City. It was just great to spend some time with my family after not seeing them for a few months.
After they left school started again. Baruch, Ariella, and Yosef came back after possibly not returning which was wonderful. Also my friend Brian from Michigan has arrived and made this place feel more like home (Don't worry I am coming back). Speaking of coming back my plane is scheduled to arrive July 25th in Michigan. I am staying until around August 13th. I cannot wait to see everyone from America again!
I am now learning with Rav Dovid and Rav Reuven Kamenetsky. It's amazing! In case anyone was wondering we are learing Makkos this zman (semester). This masechta (section of the Talmud) basically focuses on cases of witnesses giving false testimony, cases of accidental deaths, and cases where people do something that is punished with lashes. Both Baruch and Brian are in my shiur (class) so we get to see each other every day. The shiur focuses on understanding Tosofos so we do all the Rashis and Tosofos on the daf (page) and also some Rishonim (early commentators).
This weekend is lag b'omer and also a student here is getting married. It should be a great time, I can't wait.
In other exciting news the Maimonides trip from Michigan is arriving in Israel soon and I will get to see friends from college and also my cousin who is coming on the trip.
In case you are wondering what I do with my time other than read books... tonight I had an interesting debate with, in my opinion, one of the most intelligent people here about whether the world actually physically exists or whether we are just "existing" in God's mind. It stems from the idea that since before the world existed there was only God, God must have created this world with himself, because that is all there was, and that's all there still is. It's confusing but exciting and intellectually stimulating.
Most of you probably want to know what I am going to do in my future so the plan is as follows...
1 - come home July 25th
2 - leave for either New York or Israel August 13th or 14th to learn for another year in Yeshiva.
3 - Go to YU in September of 2008 for both smicha (not "happy," but rather "Rabbinical degree"), and either a Masters in Social Work or Law School.
Interesting thought about miracles - We view a miracle as an unnatural occurence. The funny thing is that we can get used to unnatural occurences. Take walking through a wall for example. Almost everyone would view walking through a wall as a miracle. I view it the opposite way, I think that every time we lean against a wall and do not fall through it is a miracle. If you take the atoms which make up any physical object and clump them all together it will comprise about 1 millionth of the total space. Yet somehow everytime you touch a physical object you cannot go through it. The world is an amazing place...