Mother knows best

I have had my fair share of feedback from my friends. Resigning my membership with the church, taking up on studying Hebrew, avoiding pork meat, visiting Jewish museums, reading nothing but holocaust books. You've gone way deep into this! Oh, next thing you know you're converting! You're blinded by all this stuff!

Well, damn it. Me quitting the church had nothing to do with my boyfriend. I'm studying Hebrew merely, firstly, to understand and read at least something when visiting Israel and secondly, of course to eavesdrop understand what my boyfriend is talking about on Skype with his family or friends. I consider pork unhealthy and well, the holocaust books... there I have no logical explanation. I'm just interested. Same goes for the museums.

But what is surprising is that my mother has been, let's say, supportive in all this. Sometimes I wonder who is more excited: me or her. My mother...

• Was actually the one I went to Israel with. She wanted to go there.
• Works as my SMS-alert if there's anything Israeli/Jewish on TV - may it be a TV show, movie, documentary and whatnot.
• Experiments making hummus at home. Because the ones in the store in Finland aren't as tasty as in Israel.
• Takes pictures of the synagogue in Zurich, just so later she can show them to me.
• Collects pamphlets from a pro-Israeli demonstration, just to share them later with me.
• Buys me a book, just because it was written by a Jewish author.
• Tells me about a Finnish actress, who converted to Judaism.
• Buys mangoes from Israel.
• Puts miniature Israeli flags on these mangoes from Israel.

So, Mom, do you just love your daughter very much and show your approval through all these nice gestures - or is there something I should know? :-)

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