The Last Day

Today is the last day in Israel – and it’s a long one. 7AM breakfast, then we are heading to the airport and 1AM for our 530AM flight. We left Jerusalem and went Clementine picking in the morning. Farmers who don’t finish picking their crops due to economical reasons allow volunteers to come pick the produce and it gets donated to the needy. They were also delicious.

After that we had free time for lunch then drove to Tel Aviv to shop for 3 hours. I aimlessly walked around and stopped for coffee and tried to kill 3 hours which was very hard to do. We then headed back to Jerusalem for dinner and a final group discussion. At about 10PM we went to the Old City of Jerusalem to visit the Western Wall and do the underground tunnel tour. The tour takes you below the current ground level to the base of the wall (only about 1/3 of the height of the wall is visible above ground). It was a good thing that I had done the tour last year because I was too exhausted to appreciate it fully. At 1AM we got on the bus for a final time and went BACK to Tel Aviv to the airport.

AEPi at the Kotel: (L-R) Shane, Me, Felix

Today was exceptionally good because it was the first day of classes of my last semester at university. I could not think of anything I would rather be doing or anywhere else I would rather be!