Weekends normally start here on Thursday nights, but this Thursday night was a little different. After Wednesday night's seder was not very much of a success, we had the great idea of doing our own seder at the apartments on Thursday night. This was a great idea for many reasons, mainly that it would feel much more like home, would be much more personal, and for what I think was by far the most important reasons - that way, we could include all of our non-Jewish friends, and invite anyone who was remotely curious about it. The most exciting part for me was, well was really a mixture of things, but definitely the fact that my Chinese teacher Guo Laoshi (she's the cutest woman ever, and while it's really tricky to be able to tell how
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