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Its been a couple of months since I have gotten home and even blogged about my experience.. After I got back from Greece I started my internship at Ramah Israel Programs and I had a blast. I did basic intern things like file, input things on the computer as well as photo copy. I had it down to a science. My normal hours were 10-6 sometimes 11-7 or earlier. There were only 9 of us at one time living in Jerusalem so the Otzmanikm got very close and I loved that. I was the only female from B7 so that I made new friends and I will never forget my time in Jerusalem with everyone. I ended up meeting someone and had a blast with them the last month or so of Israel with them. We ... read more

So today we worke up at 6:45 am, to have a little day trip to the Island of Symi we had to be at the Port at 9am leaving the hotel by 8:30. This is what Symi is about. Its an Island of a population of 2606 and just a day trip away from Rhodes, its a rocky and very picturesque island. Ship building and sponge diving are the main economies of the Island. Sponge diving started in the Ottoman times. Whilte on our way to Symi I had a radical amazement moment. It was when I was looking out to the water and it was clear, turquoise and this deep blue nothing like I have ever seen before. It was unbelievable. We made two stops in Symi, the first one was to Moni Taxiarnou Mihail ... read more

*There were no sidewalks *There were no crosswalks *The drive on the wrong side of the road *Our room was not ready ... 20 euro *The guy knocked our door... Constance *We slept for six hours *we woke up at 2:30 am *The food kept coming and coming *We almost missed our plane *The had never seen a pedestrian *We found the TA University study abroad building in Larnca *There is a beach named after TX! *I got burnt the color of a tomato *The little boy at the airport *The guy from Dubai has a brother in DALLAS! *Tx ordered a vodka lime.. got straight up vodka *KEO beer is good *Are you Cypriot?/Greek *We heard Hebrew in the streets *Are we in England *The gay french men at the hotel *How many tourists can ... read more

Venturing into town round two. We decided that we were deff not walking this time. I went to bed dredding that walk thinking I would have to do it again today.. not only once, but twice. So we waited for the bus and noticed that it does not come every 1/2 an hour we were waiting at least 40 min. We got into town in 5 minutes instead of forever it was so much nicer. We went to the promenade since there was going to be traditional Greek dancing and it was pretty cool and then we went to the beach and laid out for hours which then meant of course I got fried like no other. I was wearing my hadaya necklace so I have this little aread on my chest which is not red ... read more

And the adventure begins... the Nesher picked us up around 3am to go to the airport we got through the airport around 430 am everything was smooth our flight was at 7am we landed by 8am it very a very quick flight, we get into a cab to take us to the hotel (we notice automatically that they drive on the other side of the ROAD)!!! We get there to try to check in which is not until 1pm unless you pay 20 euro to get to your room earlier. We did that since both tx and I did not sleep a drop last night and we couldnt function without sleep. We wake up 8 hours later around 6pm starving and ready to get our vacation started. We did not want to go far for dinner ... read more