Day Four

Hi! Welcome Back!

Today the theme was Multiculturalism.
We arrived bright, early and exhausted at Givol and began the day with some...acting!
We were split into four teams and had to write and identity card for a Jewish woman in London, a Arab woman in London, a Jewish woman in Israel and an Arab woman in Israel. Then each representative from each group were asked questions and had to answer as the person they were representing on a scale of 0% - 100%. It was interesting to note the contrasting opinions of girls from different cultures representing different people.

We then travelled to Ein Hod, a village which used to be Arab until 1948 but then it was overtaken by Jews. These Jews, especially a man called Marcel Janco saved the village from destruction by turning it into a living museum of the Dada Movement! People live there yet most of them are artists and we had to keep quiet the whole time (a hard feat to acomplish!). ps they grow Pomegranates, figs and olives!

We then went on the MOST harrowing coach journey EVER to Ein Chud, the village where all the arabs from Ein Hud escaped to, much to the excitement of all the girls...(not)! But they were very hospitable and the view was worth, kind of, the harrowing journey through the hills...

We survived the journey to Haifa where we met some Israeli's and Arab's who live together and believe that the way to peace is by recognising the good in everyone. We had some very controversial discussions about issues concerning the relationship between Arabs and Jews in Israel. The opinions were fascinating! A lot of girls enjoyed discussions in private with Koral, Dana and Linor afterwards.

We then played some drama games with the Theatre group and were dancing like maniacs and trying to move our whole body before running around the room a different speeds - profound!

Upon arrival at the hotel after dropping off the Israelis at Givol and getting the exciting news that we would be back at 7am the next morning...we all went to go eat an extremely original meal - not! We were greeted by Breslover Chassidim who knew the Rebi Nachman song! can you imagine?? After this we all went down to the beautiful beach for a walk (wow) before settling down to an early night before our even earlier start tomorrow!

Love, Yosepha (for a change...)

PS We wont be able to blog tomorrow as we are sleeping in a youth hostel for the night with the Israelis! Sorry! Enjoy the pictures!