SH-26-120's blog

Dear diary!

Everyone who goes on Birthright (Taglit) has a day like today -- well, almost. Thanks to Shlomi (one of our awesome Israelis), instead of seeing the sunrise at the top of Masada, we saw it at the base. We were supposed to all be on the bus, ready to go to hike up Masada, at 4:45am…but Shlomi was nowhere to be found! After waiting for 30 minutes, we were about to send someone to look for him when he showed up. To Shlomi’s surprise, he didn’t get yelled at or punished. Off we sped to Masada, hoping to still see the sunrise at the top.

An Open Letter To My Mother (And Everyone Else's Parents) - aka What exactly we're doing spending 10 days in Israel and ignoring you the entire time.

Hi Mom (and everyone else's amazing parent's, family and friends reading this),

We arrived on Thursday afternoon, and thought to be completely exhausted after two extremely long flights. However, the energy came to us from meeting our new Israeli friends and tour guide who joined us first thing outside of customs and passport control. The Israelis on the trip so far have shown us so much of their country through their eyes, and make it feel somehow as if it is our own. The first morning we woke up to the beautiful nature and weather on Kibbutz Afiq, and continued to enjoy the outdoors of Israel's North with a hike by the Gilabun river.