When I first named the blog I went with "The Barcelona Experience." That name was really good, at least I thought it was. The blog was originally for my semester abroad and I was taking a class called The Barcelona Experience. Originally I never thought I would keep writing after my trip abroad but now that I have, I need to rename the blog to something else. I will be in Israel for the next section of the blog so maybe I will just name it The Israel Experience. Then after that I can just keep renaming the blog.
While on the subject of Israel, I don't think I have mentioned anything about my past trips to Israel. I have spent 25 days in Israel in two trips. My first trip was in the summer of 2010. I traveled to Israel with my brother and two friends. Their brothers were both in Israel and we had a place to stay in Tel Aviv so we all decided to visit. It was an awesome trip and we traveled around the country, partied in Tel Aviv, swam in the dead sea, and watched the world cup final. Before I started my blog I kept a travel journal, and I wrote a lot about what we did. I still have that journal and it is awesome to go back and read some of the entries. I started the journal back in 2003 as a community service log book for a trip to the British Virgin Islands. About half way through that trip I started using it more as a personal journal and now this blog is my journal.
The second time I came to Israel was for Birthright. Birthright is a program that sends Jewish kids aged 18-26 on a free trip to Israel. About 40 people from the US go on the trip and you travel around Israel learning about your Jewish identity, history, and traditions. I went with my brother and 3 friends from home and a bunch of other Americans. I had a great time and got to see some new things and some of the same things from the trip before. I probably wouldn't be going to Israel now if I had not done birthright. Its not like Birthright changed me or anything, but I think my email address found its way into my programs website and before I knew it I had applied and gotten accepted to teach English. It all happened pretty fast but I think it worked out well. At least for now. I guess we will have to wait and see if I chose the right path.
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