Date: July 19, 2016
Author: Rachel Himmel
Theme: Congress, Day 2


Today was the first full day of Congress and it was full of amazing activities. Once we got to Tel Hai University, our home base, we began our day with Opening Ceremony. Afterwards, we split into our tribes (groups that have 1 fellow from each cohort) and got a tour of the beautiful Tel Hai campus. Before lunch we heard a lecture from Avraham Infeld who gave us an introduction to Jewish Peoplehood. The lecture was both informative and hilarious. People in our cohort have been quoting his words ever since! We then had lunch and afterwards did an activity on Jewish language with our tribes. We saw how Hebrew is different from English in the way that if you change one hebrew word it will not have the same meaning. We also looked at a song called the Hebrewman trying to figure out why most of the song was written in English if it's called the Hebrewman. 

We returned to our hostel where we had dinner followed by networking time (when we got to talk with the other cohorts that were staying at our hostel). Throughout the day we all met different people from around the world and made strong connections that will last a lifetime. Overall it was a great first full day at Congress!