Again, I took the nightbus from Haifa to Eilat and arrived in Eilat at 5am (Egged bus). Me and my sister were both tired and therefore rolled out our sleepingbags and slept on the beach until 8am. Our plans for Eilat were simpel, we were going to swim, snorkel and tan at the beach. A week before we left I also booked us a divingtrip with dolphins at the Dolphin Reef. It is the only place in Eilat where you can swim with dolphins, you are not allwed to touch them, but you do swim quite close to them. My sister never dived before and therefore did an accompanied dive, with a professional diver that she basically held hands with during the entire dive. She dived to 6 meters depth and got to see the dolphins ... read more

In Israel, one of the biggest jewish holidays is celebrated at the same time that most of Europe is celebrating Easter. The holiday is Pessach or Passover and yet again it is celebrated with lots of food and big familydinners. This was my first time celebrating Pessach and I was really excited about it. Me and the family were gonna go to family friendses house and throw a big dinner party. So Pessach celebrates the 40 years of wandering in the dessert from Egypt to the holy land. Pessach lasts for 8 days. And this is a small fact that i learned during Pessach, it is impossible to buy bread for 8 days. During Pessach people eat Matze, which is a kind of cracker-bread looking thing that symbolises the food the jews ate during their journey ... read more

Alexander Zaid. One of the founders of the defense force Hashomer that was formed in 1909. Like most jews at that time, Alexander Zaid, bought land from either arabs or the british in the land, then known as Palestine. The arabs did not like this very much though and tried to destroy the settlements and make the jews leave. The British had a group of guards that people could rent to guard their house, but most of them were arabs. The jews did not feel safe having arabs guarding their homes because they often cooperated with the arabs that attacked settlements, therefore they formed Hashomer, which was a jewish defense organisation. Once Alexander Zaid was standing guard, he was attacked by some arabs and killed. Now there is a statue of him on a horse looking ... read more

First of all happy holidays to everyone! It has been tough here during christmas, there is no christmas spirit, no christmasfood and chocolates in the stores, no snow no darkness etc. Therefore I decided to do something special for christmas this year (seeing how I was in Israel last christmas aswell, it was time to celebrate christmas again). I heard about a christmas parade in Nazareth and got curious. In Nazareth there are christian arabs aswell as muslim arabs. I suggested the parade to my friends at the university and after class on 24th of December we all went with the bus to Nazareth. Seeing how Nazareth was Jesuses homecity I expected a different kind of christmas. A religious kind of christmas about Jesus and not about santa claus and presents and such. Well was I ... read more

I'm still studying alot, studying hard, every day. Next week I have a midterm and today I had a presentation. My presentation was about my travels to Tanzania and what I did there and it went very well:) I've also started printing out lyrics and practicing singing some hebrew songs. My favourite artist so far is Idan Raichel, his music is beautiful and the lyrics are not to difficult. ... read more