HISTORY, DESERT AND THE PEOPLE

Wednesday started with a quick ''getting ready'' and packing up the bags as we were leaving the hostel in Haifa to travel to the south of the country. Our first stop was in the holocaust museum Yad Vashem, where a tour guide was waiting for us. It was one of the most interesting tours we could probably imagine as well as one of the most depressing.

Most of us couldn't hold the tears when we got to the memorial dedicated to the childen killed during the Shoah. Then we went to Jerusalem but we didn't get a chance to walk into the acient city because of some serious weather issues. We just got some quick photos of the unbelievably beautiful view of the town.

The rest of the day we spent in the coach traveling through the Negev desert and running away from the storm and once more we stopped to take some pictures of an amazing wonder of nature. In the evening we eventually made it to Ejlat, ate supper and went to bed. But before going to sleep some of us were talking in the hall way when suddenly some arab students came, turned on the music and started dancing with us. We were positively shocked how outgoing the local people were for others – that is us. Although it wasn't part of the planned program, we wanted to write about it since we find it quite unusual.

By MATT

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