Sunday, May 31, 2009

6/1/09

Hey Everyone!
I feel like I have not done and adequate job with this!!
We have been resting in Benyamina! We played at Ceasearea on the beach most of the day Saturday. It was so beautiful, got to do a tad-bit of shopping. Yesterday I got to walk around the old Zichron and shop some more as well.
We are now in Lod/Romley, and I am staying with a family in Be'er Ya'kov a village near Lod of about 10,000. My host parents have 5 children 4 are at home. 16,17,22,and 24. The oldest, 30 is studying at the University of Michigan! They were quizzing me on where all I had been. It was good for the memory, not to mention they helped with a lot of pronunciations.
Today we have a big day, and I hope that I can report to you all this evening.
It's our last week here. When I return home I would like to post everything and catch up!

Love you all!
Katt
Posted by at

1 comment:

  1. UnknownJune 3, 2009 at 9:16 AM

    Enjoy your last week! I missed you in Amarillo this last weekend but look forward to catching up and hearing about your trip!

    Love you!
    ~Candace

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

In the Beginning....

In about mid September Beth Duke of Center City Amarillo called me at work and said "I've been thinking about you." Naturally, my response was, "Really, what did I do this time?," after a few chuckles she explained to me the Rotary International Group Study Exchange, and how she thought I would be great candidate to the team, and that my dad would let me have my job back after four weeks of being away.
I thought, WOW this would be so awesome! Then, she told me where they were going this year....Israel....my first thoughts were " I would love to go, but not with what's going on, where will I stay ....in a manger...because the first thing I think about when I think of Israel is of course God, then the song "Away in a Manger."
So I applied, wrote my essay and interviewed. In January I was invited become a part of the 2009 Rotary International Group Study Exchange to Israel.
There are 4 of us and a team leader.
Me,
Aida Almaraz a social worker from Boys Ranch
Fernando Valle, an assistant professor of Education at Tech
Shirley Davis, an assistant professor of Mathematics at South Plains College in Levelland.
John Kanelis and editor at the Amarillo Globe News.

We have been working hard to put together a presentation about ourselves to present to the different Rotary clusters through out Israel. We will spend 4 weeks there exploring our vocations in their country while were share a bit about ours with them.