journal

sunday, December 13th

Today i’ve decided to go to my neighborhood basketball court and shoot a little bit before my game. when i got there it was taken so i went to another one, there i met my friends, Ariel was also there. We played for 2 hours and then I went home. Later I had a game, we won and the ride back in the team’s bus was hilarious. it was really fun. 

monday, december 21st

We just ended watching “Extremely Loud”. I really liked this movie. I liked the relationship between Oskar and Thomas, how Thomas taught Oskar to never stop looking, to always be curious. I also really liked how it ended, how Oskars mom told him she was always there, that she was worried about him so she kept an eye on him without he even realized. 

my favorite object and activity

Many objects and activities are really important for me, but there is one I like the most, and it is basketball. I started playing basketball 9 years ago,since I was 5. I play basketball on a professional team, Maccabi Tel Aviv. We have team practices 4-5 times a week, and besides that I’m playing more by myself and with friends. This game is so important for me because of many reasons: I like the fact that nothing comes easily in that sport, you need to work hard for everything. I also like it because it is fun to watch basketball games and to copy pro players’ moves.Without basketball, my life would have looked much different, instead of playing with my friends in the neighborhood or going to 2 hours team practice i would have nothing. I would have feel that i waste my time by not doing nothing else.

2020 

The past year was really strange for me personally, except for the CoronaVirus, Kobe Bryant, my idol, and my favorite player passed away in a helicopter crash. i was really sad. Besides that, the corona made my life way much different. Instead of going to school everyday,and meet my friends. We started learning at zoom, and I hated it. it is much more complicated for me to concentrate at zoom, normal class is much easier for me. by the time we started learning at zoom, our practices got paused, it was terrible. The corona made me stop doing what I like to do the most, playing basketball. Then, the government announced the lockdowns. The first one was the worst, it was the hardest one because there were many police officers  patrolling on the streets looking for people who went out of their houses. after the first one, they took a little bit of the pressure off, and the corona got even worse and there were much more affected people, even two of my friends got affected. luckily I didn’t. I hated that year. I haven’t met many of my friends and my grandparents  for months because of all of the lockdowns. I’m really happy that there are vaccines now and that we are getting closer to getting rid of that virus. 

If I would’ve written a letter to the Ministry of Health, I would’ve told them to make the lockdowns in specific places, and not all over the country, that they should make lockdowns in red and yellow cities, and not in green ones. It could help the students go to school, people could go to work and other activities could get back to normal. 

If I would’ve written a letter to the Ministry of education, I would’ve told them that the zoom isn’t as good as they think it is, that kids are having trouble understanding the new materials their learning in class, and other kids cannot concentrate. I would’ve recommended them  to try getting back to normal school, so kids can learn better. 

January 1st, 2021

Today was really fun. After the zoom classes, I went to shoot around by myself at the basketball court next to my home. After that i did some athletics training in order to get better performances when i play, it helps me jump higher, and be faster so i can gat advantages on my defender. By the evening, I went to Amit’s home to do our school project with 3 other friends. It was really fun. After we finished it, we watched some TV together, It was really fun.

february 6th

By the morning, I went out to run to get in better shape because we will come back to practice soon. I ran 4.5 kilometers, it’s a lot. By the afternoon, i went to play with my friends, it was really competitive and fun. We played for 3 hours. After that, i watched the Ninja Warrior finals, it was really exciting.

february 7th

Today I have just finished watching the TV show suits. I really liked this show, it is really exciting and surprising, i really recommend that show. Besides that, i played basketball with my friends today. It was really fun. We played some 3-3, and every game was more competitive than the other one. We played like that for 3 hours in a row, by the end of it, I was exhausted.

A BIT ABOUT MYSELF

My name: Ori Nevo

My birthdate: August 3rd, 2006

My cell number: +972 542182666

My email: [email protected]

Brothers and sisters: I have a 12 year old sister called Lihi, and a 7 year year old brother called Noam

My 3 favorite rappers: Lil uzi vert, drake, juice wrld

My favorite sport: basketball

My favorite video games: Call Of Duty: warzone, nba 2k

Favorite shows: suits, how i met your mother, brooklyn 99

Things i like to do in my spare time: I like to play basketball with my friends, i like to play with my friends on my ps4, i like to watch TV

Interesting projects I am involved with this year: i am playing basketball on a professional team

My favorite subject at school: PE 

March 8th, 2021

Today I woke up early, and went to the court to practice a little bit before the first zoom classes. After i finished the classes i had to do homework for a project im taking a part in, i learn how to program in a program language called C#. By the evening, I did a physical practice, lifted some weights and then went home to rest.

march 21st

today my team and I had a game against Rishon Lezion. The game wasn’t so good until the coach subbed me in. We made a 12 points comeback by the 3rd quarter and eventually won in overtime by 8 points. i had a great game and i really like winning close games like this. 

march 27th

By Passover evening we went to my mothers uncle, usually it is really fun because my favorite cousins come there too, but this year they went to their dads family. Most of the night was kind of boring until my cousins came after we ate because their father didn’t feel well. Eventually I had fun because I have a lot in common with my cousin and we could talk about the stuff we like. 

Dear Mr. Edelstein

The fact that the pandemic lasts so long isn’t good, and there is a way to end it. In my opinion if there will be a lockdown like there was in China, we can get over it. If people won’t be able to move between cities, less people will get infected, and it will help the situation. There are some benefits for that. 

If people won’t be able to move between cities, every city will deal with the situation differently. Green cities will be able to allow people to get back to their works, open shops, and let things get back to normal, also, kids will be able to go back to school and not learn by zoom. It will help people to get out of the financial crisis because they will finally be able to work again and get paid. 

I would really recommend you to take this advice and make the lockdown this way. It will help us to go back to normal.

Ori Nevo

my peermatch partner

My peerMatch partner’s name is Gianni Esmero, and he is 15 years old. His birthday is on March second 2006, and he was born in San Diego, California. He likes skateboarding with his friends, and  plays Call Of Duty, CS;GO, and valorant. In his free time he likes to skate with friends, and play video games. 

 Gianni really likes his parents, they motivate him, and he wants to pay them back when he gets older, it shows how much he likes and respects them.  Soon he is going to celebrate easter with his family and friends, he still doesn’t know exactly how, but usually they have brunch, and having a party

The places Gianni liked are Madrid, Zurich, and Geneva. If he could have one superpower is Doctor X powers (read and control the minds of other people). 

He thinks that happiness is really important, and it means a lot for him. 

march 30

my peermatch partner’s name is Gianni Esmero. He is really nice, he likes to skate with his friends, play video games and he loves his family.  We talk on instagram and i would like to play Call Of Duty with him sometime. We have a lot in common. I really liked to meet someone from the US, it is something that most people never get to.

march 31st

Today my team and I had a game against Yahud. we are in 2nd place in our league. we arrived there 1 hour earlier than we were supposed to, so we talked a lot until we went on to the court. It was a great game. we won by 20, and i scored 10 points, i had a lot of fun playing. 

Your Best

If you always try your best

then you’ll never have to wonder

about what you could have done

if you’d summoned all your thunder

and if your best

was not as good 

as you hoped it would be, 

you still could say

“I gave today all that i have in me”

I really like this poem because it talks about that you should always do your best, no matter what, because if you want, you will always wonder what could happen if you would give your best

sautrday, April 10th

Today I went to Jaffa with my family to see “Shook Hapishpeshim”. We ate there launch, and ate Cnaffe at “Jaffa Cnaffe”, I really liked it.  then, my sister wanted to go over to a place called Beitea where they sell tea with little balls called boba, it wasnt so good and I didnt understand all the hype around it.

friday, april 23rd

 today i went  with my friends to a basketball tournament called “streetball Herzliya”.  It’s a 3 on 3 tournament that people from all across the country come to participate in.  After almost 5 hours, the tournament ended and we won 2nd place. it was really fun. After I got home I realized I got burned in the sun, and my whole body burned for a few more hours. 

saturday, april 24th

today i finished reading the book: “The Mamba Mentality: How I Play” by Kobe Bryant. It is an amazing book, where everyone could learn how and why, Kobe was such a good player. You can see in the book how much he sacreficed for the game of basketball, how hard he worked, and the way he thaught. The special thing about him was his mentality- working much harder than anyone else to be better than them. I liked the book because Kobe was my favorite player, and it felt really cool to know how his mind worked.