Yad Ve Shem and Girls Night

Todays language of the day: Swahili brought to you by "my favorite person in the whole entire universal solar system" Elana Levine.

Hello and welcome back to the show. Today we are going to talk about my journey of the day..da dah dahhhhhhhh. The day started out with us waking up at 6:45 a.m because it was a Tiyul day. Todays tiyul consisted of us going to Yad ve Shem, the #1 Holocaust museum in the world. It was fantastic and the architectural design of the museum was like no other. The museum perfectly portrayed the Holocaust perfectly. The main museum part was in a long corridor located underground, where we sanked through the galleries portraying tons of pictures and stories from the Holocaust. The coolest part about the museum was that in the end of the museum we ended up in an open area showing the state of Israel in all its beauty. After we were done "museuming" we went to the children's memorial room where they had about 5 candles that reflected against the mirrors in the room that made it look like there were millions of candles floating in the air. There was also a voice in the backround saying the names of the kids that were killed in the Holocaust, their age, and their place of origin. It sounded like God was speaking their names. It was jaw-dropping, and recommend that if you go to Yad Ve Shem you must go to the childrens memorial center. After the museum we got a talk to by a Holocaust victim. This event had become one of my favorite parts of the trip so far. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience to be listening to such an amazing person with an amazing story. I have heard numerous survivors tell me their story but this one was different. SHE WAS ANNE FRANKS NEIGHBOR, AND BEST FRIEND!! what are the odds of that? When she told us this "fun fact", my heart jumed a little knowing how amazing it was to be in the same room with someone who knew one of the most significant persons of the Holocaust. It was also nice to hear her background story, in that she was one of the "lucky" ones in the terrible Holocasut. She was able to keep all of her luggage and belongs into the workcamp that she was sent to . I also found it interesting that her grandma was able to be one of the 220 jewish refugees who would be sent to Palestine, but decided not to go because she wanted to stay with her grandchildren. After the talk we came back to campus and had an event where we dressed up as the opposite sec. I happily dressed up like Izzy miller for the activity, and I must say I pulled it off very well. Then our counselors set up games and other things such as making a skit and acting like someone on the trip. I have a couple pictures courtesy of Izzy. It was a fun and sad day all in one.

Kwaheri(bye)

Pada & Casper, my two favorite boys that I miss a lot

Me, Gabe, Noah as girly-girls--I coudn't find the good one of me and Izzy, but I will keep my eyes  peeled.