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This weekend has been super super busy but great. Yesterday we got our communities, so now I know where I'll be visiting this year! Here's the lineup:

- Auburn, Alabama. Temple Beth Shalom (Reform)
- Hot Springs, Arkansas. Congregation House of Israel (Reform)
- Macon, Georgia. Congregation Sha'arey Israel (Conservative)
- Hattiesburg, MS. Temple B'nai Israel (Reform)
- Tulsa, OK (so I fly there). Temple Israel (Reform)
-Waco, Texas. Congregation Agudath Jacob (Conservative)

So that is so exciting!! We start our visits at the end of July and will be traveling most of August. Our visits in the summer are also with a second year Fellow and often combined with other communities as well, so I'll really be traveling throughout Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas! Goodness!

I did a bunch of driving this week which was also excellent, and tonight we are going Contra Dancing at The Commons, the birthplace of Eudora Welty (http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/jfp.php/events/entry/37918), the facebook description is much more entertaining.

Tomorrow I will regretfully miss Rob's big birthday and Lauren / Emily's visitors because I am off to Atlanta to attend a Memorial Service. I'm sure it will be nice to see my family and be together, and then I'll be back in action Sunday night.

Ross, I want to wish you a Happy 22nd publicly on my blog, and I'll call at some point to make sure the festivities are progressing accordingly. Please give Saratoga hugs for me, guys. And also give each other hugs. For some reason all I can think about is going to the Hilton on Alumni Night and almost falling asleep. I don't really want that to be my lasting college memory, so I'll try to think about mustaches or Fun Day or themed birthday parties or dairy haus or Romas or something like that. Tell me if I'm missing something I should think about as long as it's not that dodgeball night where I wore those gold leggings because I never really want to remember that. Moorebid? I'd rather not think about those either. X, do any of you read this? For the record, nothing happened. That joke will one day not be funny, I guarantee it.

LOVE,
Claire