Most of the Dillers, including myself, woke up very tired this morning because it was our first night at our host families, and who can go to sleep when your Israeli best friend is right there next to you?
This morning all of the Dillers split up into two different groups for the camp or seminar. Both the Rishon-ers and the Metro West-ians have been working on either a children's camp or teenage community service based seminar/ camp for Ethiopian Israelis.
Even with all the planning, there were some complications that we couldn't foresee for the day-camp which meant that we had to change everything; location, participants and schedule. None the less, all went very well. The rest the Americans and I were a little worried and clueless when we walked into tons of young kids running around and jabbering in Hebrew. It is obvious that the Americans couldn't have done this without the Israelis to break the language barrier, but even without talking, it was a lot of fun. The young Israeli kids were very intrigued with me and the rest of the americans. In broken English they had tons of questions about us and our life.
Today at the camp we had America Day. There were stations where the campers took part in games relating to American sports, food, etc... and by lunch time, the camp ended and the kids went home. They were very excited for the next day, (at least they seemed excited.) The camp met up with the seminar at a location where the seminar is held and also where we are sleeping. Soon after we had free time to hang out and have dinner. Today as a very fun, rewarding experience. As always, we ended the day with a ma'agal lilah, (night circle) to reflect on our day.
- Seth Appel
P.S. Mom, stop complaining to Evan that I haven't called yet. 
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