Here are some of the things I've done in the last few weeks:
- finished my first semester in Israel
- went home to Atlanta
- finished semester again by writing an exam
- went to New York to see fiancee and my grandparents
- finished semester again by finishing the last paper
- looked into internships for next year
- began preparation for this summer
- picked 2 invitation choices for my wedding
- returned to Israel
They were:
Susanart/Yuval Susan foundation (www.kys.org.il)
This is a really interesting project to help at-risk youth by providing gainful employment and artistic skills to help them move forward in their lives. By creating some of the demands of a job with extra psychological support, they help teens get off the streets and back into school/army/etc. For me it was fun, since I got to try my hand at cutting glass. I hope to go back and learn to make glass beads! It looks like so much fun. We met with the director who afer a little prodding spoke about Judaism, tikkun olam, about all of Israel taking care of one another and how they have amazing conversations over book-binding or setting up the kiln.
Ethiopian National Project (http://www.ujc.org/page.aspx?id=99007)
We went to a high school and met a bunch of entertaining teenage girls in this after-school program. By providing tutors/teachers, role models--Israel and Ethiopian-Israeli, this program helps increase the number of Ethiopian teenagers who pass high school and go on to college and better army jobs/real life.
Ulpan Etzion/Beit Canada Absorption Center
Here we met with a couple new olim and learned about a nice absorption center. Who knew you could get set up with an apartment, food, Hebrew classes? Why don't other countries help out their new immigrants this way? It would make for a much better transition for so many people!
Ok, now to look at an application for a little bit.
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