Friday, July 16th
It's almost midnight and we are back from Shabbat dinner.
Before dinner we went to an open park in Jaffa where we had a 'drumming circle' at the ocean. Photos are below.
Following that, a short Shabbat service and then at about 8:30 we headed back to Tel Aviv to a roof top of a near by hotel for Shabbat dinner. We sat with the new rabbi and his wife and ended up with fun conversation and a joyful time despite the rather sweet kosher wine.....
More from Sarah:
Hi, this is Sarah! So, I know that I haven't written at all yet, and I'm sure you all miss me (or not, but I'd rather you did), but here I am!
Today was our second day in Israel, and as you can probably imagine, we were SO PYSCHED to get started at 8:30 in the morning! We went to an underground ammunitions factory museum underneath a kibbutz where we watched a video on the subject, which I found fascinating. We then listened to our tour guide recite word for word the video we had just watched, only this time I found it difficult to concentrate to due the sweltering heat and sheer boredom that's caused by listening to the same exact lecture twice in a row. Somehow, the subject wasn't really that interesting anymore. Our tour guide then led us down into the actual factory, and proceeded to give us almost exactly the same lecture for the third time. By this point, I was ready to permanently lock myself in the in-house tanning booth. (They had a tanning booth so the people working in the underground factory got enough UV light and Vitamin D.)
After the ammunitions factory, we visited Independence Hall, where we received the same lectures on the foundation of Tel Aviv and Israel at least two or three times. I'm hoping that this pattern doesn't continue.
After lunch we returned to the hotel, where Emily and I spent 2 hours memorizing our itinerary, which outlines in detail what we're to do every moment of our day, even during our "free times".
Shabbat was fine. Dinner wasn't that great (so much Jewish food!).
But if you're worrying that I'll keep writing these long, boring posts every day, please don't. I'm currently trying to find out if an activity called "relaxing" is in our exhaustive itinerary, so I'll be very busy and probably won't post for a while. Love you all!
It's almost midnight and we are back from Shabbat dinner.
Before dinner we went to an open park in Jaffa where we had a 'drumming circle' at the ocean. Photos are below.
Following that, a short Shabbat service and then at about 8:30 we headed back to Tel Aviv to a roof top of a near by hotel for Shabbat dinner. We sat with the new rabbi and his wife and ended up with fun conversation and a joyful time despite the rather sweet kosher wine.....
More from Sarah:
Hi, this is Sarah! So, I know that I haven't written at all yet, and I'm sure you all miss me (or not, but I'd rather you did), but here I am!
Today was our second day in Israel, and as you can probably imagine, we were SO PYSCHED to get started at 8:30 in the morning! We went to an underground ammunitions factory museum underneath a kibbutz where we watched a video on the subject, which I found fascinating. We then listened to our tour guide recite word for word the video we had just watched, only this time I found it difficult to concentrate to due the sweltering heat and sheer boredom that's caused by listening to the same exact lecture twice in a row. Somehow, the subject wasn't really that interesting anymore. Our tour guide then led us down into the actual factory, and proceeded to give us almost exactly the same lecture for the third time. By this point, I was ready to permanently lock myself in the in-house tanning booth. (They had a tanning booth so the people working in the underground factory got enough UV light and Vitamin D.)
After the ammunitions factory, we visited Independence Hall, where we received the same lectures on the foundation of Tel Aviv and Israel at least two or three times. I'm hoping that this pattern doesn't continue.
After lunch we returned to the hotel, where Emily and I spent 2 hours memorizing our itinerary, which outlines in detail what we're to do every moment of our day, even during our "free times".
Shabbat was fine. Dinner wasn't that great (so much Jewish food!).
But if you're worrying that I'll keep writing these long, boring posts every day, please don't. I'm currently trying to find out if an activity called "relaxing" is in our exhaustive itinerary, so I'll be very busy and probably won't post for a while. Love you all!
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