ottawa replugged - "life after chavez"

Note to readers: aside from trying to entertain you, a blog is also used as a diary. meaning 'though you may not find these pictures very important at this time, but in a a year or two or three from now when I'll be able to look back and remember the my spontaneous crashing at "Canada's only vocational Yeshiva"(wow!), so.... you get the point.

visiting the dorm right before shacharis, I was happy to see how Ari and his Metro are still living up to the ottawa derech that "No davening is complete without the proper hachono"!
Kooch is still doing his time... and with a smile!
(well.... sometimes..)


Waking somebody up by taking his picture will always have an interesting result (especially the morn after a farbrengen!).
If you're curious as to what the first words to escape Simcha's lips were... well I could tell you that it wasn't "Get the fudge Ice cream out of my face 'cause I don't want any thank you!"
('twas more like some other word -for the life of mine i can't remember it but- you hear it in every other sentence in the dorm this year.)

As far as "how's ottawa this year" it's pretty much the same... except that it's very different this year.. (sorry i'm in that kinda mood) the guys are much calmer (including the shluchim(!)) and the yeshiva as a whole became mad chassidish this year! If that shocks you, you can imagine how shocked I was hearing nichoiach being blasted over the stereos 24 hours a day and JEM videos being passed around the dorm like anything!
The only thing I couldn't understand was why in the world would hanholoh make such a stupid rule like "No dvd players", when all the bochrim wanto watch is farbrengens of the Rebbe! (ok, maybe even Agent Emes once in a while...)
In Avremy Goldfine's words: "They don't let us do anything this year!!!"

so long ottawa... I shall never forget you... (or at least my shrink won't!!)