Aug 10, 2006 04:17
-Wake-up WAY TOO early (4:30!)
-Slept til 5, barely awake.
-Sunrise presentations in the ampitheatre.
-Bees & flies attacking kamikaze style.
-I saw a fox running around in the hills.
-The sunrise over Jordan and the Dead Sea was breathtaking.
-David Z. did a painting of an American volunteer soldier who had been killed during the fighting in Lebanon. During his presentation of this, in the art room, he played a recording of the song "B'shem Hashem". Tali cried.
-I was still sleepy as HELL.
-Slept from 7:30 to breakfast.
-Slept after breakfast until 9.
-Uri's group, Josh's point about hookah severity
-Ibby did a poem about her mom in the shade of the thorn trees on the grassy field. We didn't realise her mom had died. It was chilling and amazing.
-Mor did an awesome song.
-Uri did some bartender shtick.
-Slept until lunch, slept all afternoon after translating the summary to my monologue into Hebrew with Eli's help
-I presented, and I thought I did well; I'd sure dressed sharp! For my presentation, I did an 8 minute excerpt from my monologue of a Holocaust survivor returning to his obliterated village, finding nothing, consumed with memories, and then realising he must make aliyah!
-I flattered Arielle.
-Excellent songs by Mel and Hannah A.
-Derso did a presentation on Ethiopian culture which culminated in a dance with wild jerking of the shoulders and arms, assisted by Sergio and Kirsh.
-More bats flying around!
-Kehillah-led activities...failed.
-Joey & Klila had arranged sticks on a fence in the design of Nesiya 2006. They lit it on fire, and we cheered, and then had pancakes.