Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Day 7

Day 7

Tel Aviv Jaffa by day/Tel Aviv Jaffa by night! Yodi was our tour guide for the day. We walked from  the Jaffa side to the Tel Aviv side. We saw the history of both cities unfold with architecture. There was a market in front of the Christian church that we got to go inside of. The whole old Jaffa square is now an area for art studios and restaurants.

 At the visitors center of Jaffa we visited a mini museum about Pharaoh. This is also the site for Jonah and the Whale and the Andromedas rock. All of the songs I sang at church camp when I was young are coming to life! “Pharaoh, Pharaoh, Oh baby let my people go, UH, yeah, yeah, yeah.”  Sing that to the tune of “Louie, Louie.” We walked about 3 maybe 4 miles around both parts of the cities. The oceanfront is lined with huge hotels sure didn’t resemble the manger an anyway. Lets just say I will never think of “Away in a Manger,” any more when I think of Israel.

The sites I have seen and the history that has been exposed of right in front of me is overwhelming, in a good way! This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I am soaking it all in!!

This evening we took a night tour of the Bahaus Architecture on Rothschild Street. It’s near the cities main street. Just amazing what has happed there in the last 60 years. For the apartments to be built as they were in the 30’s was modern. It looked like they were built in this era. Another WOW! WOW WOW WOW, we are all being made fun of for saying it all the time.

The evening ended with fellowship, coffee, and dessert at CafeCafe.

Tomorrow Leaving Tel Aviv for Naharyia

 

Love to you all!

 

Katt

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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.