Hey all, haven't wrote in a while. So after day 1 at my internship I decided it was not what I could see myself doing for 5 months, since it was such mindless work. I talked to our internship advisor and she said I could volunteer at this organzation here in Israel called "Save a Child's Heart" which takes children from African and Arab countries to Israel to give them life-saving heart surgery which would cost their parents more than they will earn in a lifetime. I will be working with the children pre and post-operation and help them recover and prepare for surgery. I am very excited about this internship and will be starting next week.

Yesterday, it was supposed to be raining but it turned out to be a gorgeous day so Alex and I went to explore the city of Tel Aviv, we began at Neve Tzedek which is an area that is all small streets with cute boutiques and restaurants and is just gorgeous. We just walked around and took in the scenes. Across the way on the beach is the famous restaurant called Manta Ray, we just went to their "beach bar" and had a drink and laid on these couches that over looked the water and relaxed for about an hour before heading to Jaffa. We walked around the old city of Jaffa which is gorgeous and explored a little more but since it was Shabbat the majority of stuff was closed. We want to go back when their flea market is open.

Today, I went to the beach this morning and now have Ulpan at 4. Tommorow we are going on a tour of Jaffa with our city coordinator and to the Arab/Jewish Museum something like that. I will post more on that. :)

ALSO A SHOUTOUT TO BRETT, wish I could of been at the bar-mitvah with all my faves but saying MAZEL from ISRAEL :)