Art Blog!

Hello Everyone,

I'm back once again, but unfortunately I am no longer in Israel. I have returned to my home, the frozen tundra also known as Minnesota. I just wanted to post again to tell all of you that I have created another blog recently, this time it is for a class at school. The class focuses on photoshop, as well as producing photography itself. It is mandatory to post your creations to this blog, and to write about what you learned while creating the photo; I thought maybe some people would like to leisurely look at some magnificent art pieces as they continue on there day. If you are interested heres the website for the blog: http://maxsandlermediaartsblog.blogspot.com

Bye, Have a great rest of your day.

Goodbye Everyone...

I wanted to do one final post to let all of you know that it has been a blast voicing out my trip to all of you. This trip has been one of the best things that has ever happened to me. My life has changed in ways that I can't describe. Throughout this journey I have changed as a person and have become the person that I really want to be in life. I want to personally voice my sorry to all of you for the lacking of blogs towards the end of the trip. I feel terrible not staying committed, but if it makes it any better I had the greatest time on the trip in the last two weeks. I also want to thank the people who made it possible for me to go on this trip. First my mother, you are truly awesome, without you I would have never have been able to have this experience. Next Dad, thank you for being my friend, father, brother, and role model, you are an amazing person and I couldn't ask for a better Pada, thank you. Thirdly, Sophia, thank you for being the single child for two months and for taking care of the puppy, I miss you a lot. Lastly, I want to thank all of the people who supported me in going on this trip, such as my synagogue, Adath Jeshrun, the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, THANK YOU EILAT. I want to give a special thanks to Eilat Harel for telling me to go on this trip, as a little kid you always talked to Ely and I how we are going to go on the Muss program to Israel. I thank for your insight, and without you I might not have had the unforgettable experience that I had these two months. I also want to thank the Minnesota coordinator Andrea Nadel for making this trip possible. Some other important people on my journey that have helped are David Mitchell, Mordechai Cohen, GILA, DON, Felicia Hamburger, and so many more. I made so many friendships that I will take with me throughout my whole life. 34 new brothers and sisters that will always have a spot in my heart. Thank you all for helping this trip be so amazing. Here is a very funny video from our AP euro project that I thought you might want to see.

Thank you all so so much, I had a blast telling you about my trip

Hope you had fun reading about my journey,

For the final time,

Quote:"Don't be sad that its gone, but be happy that it happened"

Free Weekend and some other pictures

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Me and Erel with the girls, Lital and AD

INON, the coolest person ever.

I had a great weekend with my friend from California, Erel. We went to his dad's friends house, located in Zichron Yaakov. A fun fact about this family that we stayed with is that the dad was from Houston and came to Israel to bring the sport of baseball to the Israelis. He is all baseball all the time, and so are his daughters. They both play on the national softball team for Israel. On Friday we hung out and ate dinner at their house with all of their in laws and family that came into town. Then at night we walked around the city of Zichron, which is very pretty and relaxing. Once we were back Erel and I stayed up until 3 a.m watching movies. The next day we went to the closest baseball field which was around 40 minutes away, and we played against the national Israeli team!! It was very cool indeed. Then we had a couple problems on the way back home, but it was all worth it. Long story short we met a man named Inon who was our savior. We talked to him on the first train, and he happen to be on the train back to Hod Ha Sharon also. Thank god he was on the second train because I guess our train that we were supposed to switch onto after the first train was broken, so Inon told us that we have to get on a bus. Without him I would still be in the train station. Also he told us stories about how he was in the army and had the highest profile, 97, and how he was an executive sniper in the army. He was also into the ladies and insisted on us talking to most of the Israeli girls that we walked by. He said he wants to move to Latin America because of all the "sexy" women. He said he lives about 10 minutes from where were staying, and that he might come and say hi. I hope so, he was really cool. Thats pretty much it, other then I just finished my final in SPanish, which was hard, but in a good way. Only a couple days, gots to live it up!:)

Zichron Yaakov at night, amazing

My second family, the boys, Aaron-Noah-Jake-Me

The baseball diamond

Yoga at its finest

Negev and Magnificent Hike and Ben Gurion's House

Cool picture of Ben Gurion, located inside his house.

On the mountain of the hike up the mountain, beautiful.

Another picture on our trek.

Welcome back,

I have some more pictures for you all. These are ones that I took on our trip in the Negev(the lower half of Israel). In the Negev we went to the house of Ben Gurion, hiked up a mountain or two, and had DOTS at Hod Ha Sharon. It was a very fun day. Life is good and is going great. I woke up today with everybody scremaing, and it turns out that there is a lice epidemic...We all got checked and the interesting part is that all the girls had lice, while all the boys did not. I guess boys don't taste that well. Also I got asked by the Israeli kids to go and play soccer last night, they knew my first name and said that I should play with them every night. It was a big confidence-booster. Another thing is that when they picked teams,(there were 4 teams that switch off on the court depending on who wins the match (whoever scores 2 first, or 10 minutes)) I was picked number one over all of the Israelis and kids that go to school there. It felt very cool.

Cool picture, I don't know how I took it, but I kind of like how it looks.

Stone that was sued as makeup in the past, this rock is the red, mostly used on the cheeks.

The sun on the hike, very majestic and wonderful to look at.

The Sunset, breath-taking

Dinner at the Hod, a bakery shop we went to after Falafel eating

Airplane at a museum place that we went to.

Mosey acting like Mosey in a make-shift bomb shelter in Sderot

Pictures- Sderot and Mordechai's house

Alex after a scrumptious meal at Mordechai's house

Elana and I on a mountain, we look like bro and sis.

Hello everyone,

These past couple days have been awesome. We went to the city of Sderot, which was consistly bombarded by bombs on a daily basis. We went to go see all the shelters of the city, and how stressful there life is. Then later that night we went to our Core teachers house for dinner, and it was bottom line amazing. Think of a jewish dinner with tons of food, and then add on top of that the fact that I hadn't had a real home-cooked meal in a while. It was superb, and wish we could do it every day. Today we went to Ben Gurion's house and the Negev.

I will post pictures of the Negev sooner or later, I have some pretty good ones

Live long and prosper,

Max Sandler

The remnants of bombs that dropped daily in Sderot, there were 296 rockets in 2 weeks at one point

Erel enjoying his masterpiece at Mordechai's house, he loves Guacomole..

I caught my brother Efe sleeping on the bus, he looked so majestic

My plate at Mordechai's, pakced to the brim with delicious and filling food.

Efe modeling with his meal, he was very excited, he eats a lot of food.

Right on the border with Gaza, in the outskirts of Sderot

2 WEEKS!!!:(:(

Hello Ya'll

This is just going to be a short blog, kind of like a Public Service Announcement. There is only two weeks left on this wonderful trip that I am on, and it has been a wonderful journey which I enjoy, and going to continue enjoying. I just want to let all of you know that since there is such a short period of time I am sadly going to be cutting down on my blogging:( I just want to live up these last couple days and not worrying about what I am going to type at night. I will try to pictures on the blog just so I can sort of stay in contact with all of you, but the telling about the days portion is for the most part over. It is very time consuming.

Please no one kill me, I am truly sorry. I'm in Israel for only a little bit longer and want to focus on my trip for the past couple days.

I Love You All,

Maxwell Bailey Sandler

Friday..

Hello Everyone,

I will tell you about the events from where I left off last time. After I was done writing the blog I went to AP European history class and we talked about the chapter that we read over the weekend. We were an hour into the class when Don, our teacher, decided to be so kind and let us finish our video project. Thank you Don, because we have kind of been procrastinating on the project, due to the fact that we are in Israel. We worked on the project for about an hour and a half and actually got a lot done. By the time were done it was around 12:00, so we went to lunch. And on Friday lunch it is the same thing every time, pita with tuna and egg salad, which I don't mind since you can never mess up such an easy thing. After lunch Isaac and I packed to go to my uncles house for the free-weekend. We left Hod Hasharon on bus 947 at around 1:18 p.m. It was a longer bus ride, but I have become used to sitting on buses for extended periods of time. At the bus station we were met by Alva and Eitan who took us to the car where I saw my uncle Ben. Once we got to his house we decided to go on a nice walk around the neighborhood. We walked all around the area while Ben told us the history of the buildings, and while Alva and Nur(my other cousin) told him to stop telling me about the history. When we got back to the house we decided to watch a movie, Two Guns, It was pretty good, but very long. After the movie we had dinner and after dinner laughed a lot. Once the laughing died down Isaac and I went to our rooms and got ready for bed, we barely get any sleep on this trip so we went to bed farely early...and woke up at 12:00. Now I am just sitting here on the bed waiting for Isaac to get out of the shower. We are going to Tel Aviv today, it is going to very fun and I will tell you all about it when it is over.

Bye,
Son of Stacy and Noah, brother of Sophia, The One and Only Maxwell Bailey Sandler