Druze Food, Bug Bites and Writing a Song for The Israeli Elections!

Yes! I did take this picture... Believe it or not!

Although we did get to walk in the footsteps of  Jesus (after all, he was an Israeli too...), this week was not as adventurous or exciting as the rest! When we got back from Ketura, it was time for school again! Everyone was really stressed out but my friend Sam, because Sam is like the honey badger, he wears bright colorful pants and he does not care. He lays on the grass all day. 

On tuesday, we had an ICC (This The Israel Core Class where we learn about Israel and Israeli Society) project which was to re enact the elections that took place in Israel recently. I represented the Yesh Atid party, and I learned a lot about Israeli politics. I got to write and perform an original song of why everyone should vote for Yesh Atid. 


Although I thought that my song was amazing, and could possibly win an oscar, we only got 10 votes while the Likud party got 13 votes.   Forming a coalition in order to get the majority of the seats was extremely stressful and everyone kept yelling at each other.  By the way, one of the people who ran for office with Yesh Atid is a woman by the name of Ruth Calderon, she gave AN AMAZING SPEECH at The Knesset.  She is the type of person that we need so that Israel can change for the better.  You can watch the YouTube video of what she said by clicking here (It has subtitles don't worry).

After that we just had more school, on Thursday we walked in the foot steps of Jesus! We visited two churches, which was really cool for me because I have never stepped into a church in my entire life, we went to the room of the last supper where Jesus ate his last meal, and under that room, we visited the tomb of king David where we held Mincha (although we all really know that King David is not really buried there). We also got to walk on the rampart of one of the walls in the old city and had some free time at Mamilla mall! 

This Shabbat, I stayed with my moms cousins in Herzeliyah. It is so great to have family so close to me here, my mom's cousin's name is Yahel and he and his family are super nice.  In Las Vegas we have no family.  Here in Israel I have a lot of cousins and my parents have a lot of friends. We went to a park on The North  for a picnic and ate Druze food and saw The Kalanyiot (beautiful Israeli wild flowers) bloom. It was really fun, until I woke up at 4 in the morning with bug bites all over me.  Which reminds me of one of the benefits of living in Las Vegas NO BUGS!  Oh well, time for another week of TRY!

I have a brief correction on The Rocket Siren in Eilat: Actually, have you ever seen on TV, those people that say they were so nervous they don't remember anything? Well, it took sometime for all to come back but here it is...  When the Siren sounded, everyone was panicking and had no idea what to do, but I did, the door to my room was locked but the window was opened so I somehow squeezed myself into the window, ran to the door to let everyone else in, ran to the bomb shelter, punched out a window to close the Iron window, and closed all of the doors.

This was all in under 10 seconds. Everyone 
was really frightened, I was shaking. Luckily,  it was a false alarm and nothing was actually happening.

Here is the "Official Video" from our 4th week at TRY!  These have been some of the most exciting weeks ever!  watch the video,  really cool!