Sunday - by Daniel

Yesterday, we all packed up, had breakfast, and headed to Tel Aviv. Before we got to Tel Aviv however, we stopped to attend the church service at the Church of The Holy Family where some of our host families worship. It was fun to see some familiar faces. After church, we stopped at a restaurant and had lunch. It was sort of sad though because we had to say good bye to our friends Dina and Christina. All of our friends that we made were so friendly, and we bonded so well, that it was very hard to say good bye. My good friend Hanna had apparently told his parents a lot about me, and when we said good bye to him the previous night, his mom came up to me, said thanks for being such a good friend to Hanna, and told me that whenever I came back to Israel, I would always have a home at their house. It was very sweet.

Anyway, we started to Tel Aviv. Once we arrived at our hotel, we unpacked, got settled, and us teens went to the beach to swim, and work on our tans! It was tons of fun. The waves were tons of fun and were better than Haifa. The disappointing part about the beach was that the chairs were 50 shekels to rent! What a rip off ! After swimming, we showered, had dinner, and headed to town to explore. There wasn't a whole lot to do so after about 30 minutes, we went back to the hotel, and went into Sasha and Flora's room, and watched some really weird European MTV. Finally, we went to bed to get some much needed rest. At least we get to sleep in. Today, Kate and I got up at about 7:30 a.m. to run. It was pretty pleasant. Today is our last full day in Tel Aviv. It is pretty much a free day. I do, however, think that everyone is at least a little anxious to get home. We're all tired of the food here and can't wait to get back to our own refrigerators. - Daniel