Holocaust museum, and Rona's house.

Todays language of the day: Turkish brought to you by Efe who is fluent in the language.

Meraba herkez (Hello everyone)

Today was a jam-packed full of information and facts about the Holocaust. We started out the day going to the museum about the physical rebellions of the Warsaw ghetto's. There were tons of pictures and stories about the people who were living in the ghettos during the time, and their courageous acts of  defiance by going against the Nazi soldiers. We also learned about other heroes that acted against the Nazi soldiers, spiritually, morally, and physically. The main value I learned from all of our lessons today was that the people going against the Nazis is to "Not go like sheep to the slaughterhouse", which I think is a very strong quote. After we left the museum we went to go hike Mt. Carmel. It was pretty steep, but thats what made it a good hike. It was very nice out today, not too cold or too hot, the ideal weather conditions for a nice hike. I am so thankful to be in Israel right now, but even more thankful that I am not in Minnesota right now. I know that the weather is consistently below10 degrees fahrenheit and that they have canceled the school the past couple days, which never happens in Minnesota. After our hike we went to our teachers house, Rona, the other classes teacher. She is really cool and invited us to go and pick fruit at her house. I don't really like fruit but she had 4 kids and a dog, which were much more fun to play with then a couple of oranges and grapefruits. The dog reminded me of casper, the dog's name was Wubbie and it looked like a longer hair, dirtier casper. It made me miss my puppy/brother:( After everyone was done picking the trees we came back to the dorm, and now we are going to whach the movie Defiance, a movie about the holocaust and how people rebelled against the Nazis. It is going to be interesting, and I am looking forward to it. Other then that life is still good, and I am still loving this experience. I regret nothing, and if I had to choose again I would do the same exact program.

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Wubbie!!!

Ba-Ba (Bye- but I think he is messing with me)