israel
Well here I am, sitting at home on july 20th, wishing i was still in israel.
The Teen Mission 06 trip was cancelled, they sent us home two weeks early because things have heated up in the middle east. I had very mixed feelings about comming home...I wanted to stay so badly, Israel is a beautiful country and it was extremely hard to leave the new israeli friends i had made, it was hard to leave...what i had come to feel was my home in the midst of a crisis. but on the other hand i was scared.
I cant say that i wasnt scared when tiberias (a city i could see from across the sea of galile was bombed.) I was aslo scared when Haifa was bombed....it was all a little scary. As much as i was told i was safe it was a completly new situation for me, i had never had to deal with anything like that remotly close to me in my life. Then i had to deal with the fact that i was leaving because it wasnt safe..and my israeli friends couldnt escape the threat like i could, nor did they want to.
I feel good that i home now because my freinds and family were worried about me and i missed them too, but i also worry every day about israel and my new friends..
even tho we had to come home early it was still and INCREDIBLE trip, ask me about it sometimes because i have so many stories...we rode camals, hiked in the negev dessert, rafted down the jordan rivers, visited an alpacca farm, climbed massada at 4 am, swam in the dead sea and so much more. it was a trip i will never forget.
The Teen Mission 06 trip was cancelled, they sent us home two weeks early because things have heated up in the middle east. I had very mixed feelings about comming home...I wanted to stay so badly, Israel is a beautiful country and it was extremely hard to leave the new israeli friends i had made, it was hard to leave...what i had come to feel was my home in the midst of a crisis. but on the other hand i was scared.
I cant say that i wasnt scared when tiberias (a city i could see from across the sea of galile was bombed.) I was aslo scared when Haifa was bombed....it was all a little scary. As much as i was told i was safe it was a completly new situation for me, i had never had to deal with anything like that remotly close to me in my life. Then i had to deal with the fact that i was leaving because it wasnt safe..and my israeli friends couldnt escape the threat like i could, nor did they want to.
I feel good that i home now because my freinds and family were worried about me and i missed them too, but i also worry every day about israel and my new friends..
even tho we had to come home early it was still and INCREDIBLE trip, ask me about it sometimes because i have so many stories...we rode camals, hiked in the negev dessert, rafted down the jordan rivers, visited an alpacca farm, climbed massada at 4 am, swam in the dead sea and so much more. it was a trip i will never forget.