July 12

Hi everyone!  I have wanted to write a new blog but have had difficult finding the time and having enough shekels or euros to pay for it.  Our days have been filled and so we are trying to go to bed at a decent hour.  Since I last wrote, we have traveled over to Israel and spent four daiys there and now I'm in Berlin, Germany. I will try to write some details of the trip tomorrow.  We will be going to Bergen Belsen former prisoner of war and concentration camp.  It is where Anne Frank and Margo Frant died.

July 5, 2010

Well, I made it safely to Washington DC yesterday.  My plane ride has uneventful and I had a lovely lay over in Milwaukee.  There I was able to enjoy a lovely Door County cherry yogurt parfait. Yeah Door County!  Last night, my new roomie, Rebecca, and I enjoyed the fourth of July fireworks in front of the Washington Monument.  They were spectacular!  This morning we headed over to Dupont Circle and had a leisure breakfast.  Yes, it's all about the food.  This afternoon begins out first day of the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teacher Program at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.  I can't wait to meet the 23 other teachers and begin the trip.  We leave tomorrow afternoon for Israel.