Wednesday, August 5, 2015

August 4 - In the Footsteps of our Founders

Date: August 4, 2015
By: Alex Barkin


Oh what a day to finish the trip! Today was an amazing day filled with so much joy and a bit of sadness of saying goodbye to our Israelis. But today was also two birthdays; Sammi and I! Let me just start of by saying we had amazing birthdays in Israel! The day started by us going to Independence Hall where I happened to run into someone I know from Toronto! At the hall, we learned all about the signing of the Declaration of Independence and got to see where it was done! Then we moved along to a really cool graffiti tour around Florentine neighbourhood of Tel Aviv! We saw a lot of really cool graffiti that had some really interesting meanings! Our guide also took some really nice professional photos, which will be coming soon! After this we went to Rabin square to eat lunch and learn about the death of Yitzhak Rabin. This was a very interesting experience because right afterwards we got to see where it all took place! Now it was time to go to the beach!!this was honestly such all great way to finish off in israel all nd we all just had fun chilling together, and we even had a closing chat afterwards! (Warning for anyone who doesn't like tears please don't read the next part) and then we said goodbye. Everyone hugged everyone and many tears were shed! Once we had all recovered from saying goodbye, we head off to dinner. Dinner was great, and many more thank yous were said. Then we left for the airport! Arriving at the airport was great because 3 other diller groups were there too!! Once we made it through security we had a lot of time to walk around, or in my group run around! Someone from my group got a text from Chicago that they were boarding so we ran from one end of the airport to the other to say goodbye. Now that I was tired around hot, we went and met up with LA. I had made many friends from LA and it was so sad to have to say goodbye arundel know it would be for the last time in arundel while. San Francisco was also there and that was another group to say goodbye to! That's a lot of goodbyes for one day! I will personally muss everyone so much and cannot wait for some sort of staying in touch! Also, sammi and I would like to thank everyone for making our birthday extra special!

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