Camping Trip up North with Doron:
Jason, Doron, and I went up north past the top of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee for all those goys out there). We went to a place called Yehudiya. In Yehudiya there are a few great sites to see. Yehudiya itself is a river bed with many waterfalls and a 90 foot drop which a person use to have to jump but now there is a ladder. Then there are these pools on another trail called Zavitan that are formed by these rocks that are in the shape of a perfect hexagon. So, we spent three days, hiking around in the heat and playing in the pools and waterfalls. Then at night we would camp out and cook our own food which of course tasted great. We had a really fun time and the boys really bonded.
Once we got back to Jerusalem, it went back to just another normal week, work and Ulpan, having coffee with some of Jason's friends. But... that weekend was Jason's little brother Max's free weekend from his USY summer program in Israel, so we had him and his friend over for the weekend. Mostly we just let them play on the computer and hang out, we ate a lot of food, and thats about it. I think that they had a nice time.
The morning they left, I also had to leave for the final seminar for Career Israel. We went up north on the coast to a place called Nachsolim, which was gorgeous and amazing and beachy and I definitely want to go there again. However, being with Career Israel is fun and I love the people that I worked with and we had a good time, there was just a lot of stuff to do and deal with at this last seminar. On the way home we stopped in Zichron Yaakov which was great and we had a wine tour and tasting. So it was busy, but in the end I had a nice time. I had to do a lot of stuff for them and I know they really appreciated it, especially in my last week of work, which it was.
The rest of the week was all working, I spent long days at the office figuring out everything i needed to finish up and meeting with people about talking over my responsibilities, they really liked me there and they actually really need someone like me to stay so maybe just maybe I will have a job when I get back! But in reality it was the best summer internship, I really got to see the business and got to like it very much.
Thursday morning, our good friends Sarah, from Brandeis, got to Israel to begin her year stay at Pardes and was staying with us for the weekend. Thursday night we had dinner with Jacob another Brandeis friend and then went out to my roommate Rachel's birthday party where things were soo awkward because the Brandeis people didn't talk to any of our Israeli friends, but ti was still fun. Friday, I was supposed to help my co-worker check the participants out of their apartments but I woke up that morning with horrible food poisoning!! I was puking and blah and gross all day and the next day too. I hardly ate food for 2 whole days and only drank water through a straw, I felt awful and I couldn't even get out of bed for two days except to puke or go to the bathroom. But now I am all better. The sad thing was, I was sick for all of Shabbat, so Friday night we were going to have 8 people at dinner, we had planned a really great dinner and I was excited to have so many people over, but instead I slept all day in bed and Jason and Sarah took over the cooking and I actually couldn't even get out of bed to meet out guests and slept through dinner and missed all the fun. The next day Jason and Sarah went to lunch at another friend of ours and again I couldn't go because I was still too sick. But at least I got to spend some time with Sarah on Sunday, we went out in the morning and we to the old city. Sarah wanted to go to the Kotel while she was here and so we did, we meet a really nice girl working for Aish and she and Sarah made plans for a future shabbas, it was fuuny, then I said goodbye to Sarah and she left for Ulpan in Haifa and me and Jason are just now beginning the process of packing up and all that. Because, I sadly leave Israel on this coming Thursday night, in only 3 days.
I do feel sad about leaving, I have had an amazing time in Israel this year, however, I am exited to eat really food and go shopping in stores that have clothes I want to buy and to see my friends and family and I am way excited for senior year at Brandeis, but I know I will be coming back to Israel so soon that it doesn't bother me that much to be leaving.
So Shalom L'Israel and Shalom to you all,
Thanks for reading!!
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