Post for May 9 - by Talia

In the morning we went to a kibbutz next to the Lebanese border. There we met and talked with IDF soldiers and handed them food we had previously bought that day. At the kibbutz Eitan, the kibbutz manager, gave us a tour and we had the best cherries ever!!!! We walked through fields and bee hives to get to the Lebanon border. We stopped for lunch at a place overlooking Syria and Lebanon. After lunch we went to De Karina, a chocolate factory, in the Golan where we saw how the chocolate is made and we were able to make our own chocolate and overflowed our boxes. Towards the end of the day we went on a hike and it was a thousand degrees. Bugs were swarming around us and all of us ended up with millions of bites. We finally reached nachal devora which is a waterfall which was infested with bees. Luckily, they weren’t in the part where we were swimming so we were still able to cool down in the water. Some of the class was brave enough to swim over to the waterfall, which was below freezing, (no joke). Sophia lost her shoe, unfortunately and it went down the fall into the bees infested area. Phillip, our tour guide was brave enough to go get it and then we went on our way to kibbutz Gonen where we stayed in cottages with full size Jacuzzis in every cottage. Leaving my mark! Talia