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Monday, May 9, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
World Traveller
About 2 months ago I was one of the lucky participants of a free trip to Israel with Birthright Israel. I am not exaggerating in the least when I say that those ten days were the best I have had in years (probably since my retreats with BPF in California). This trip was completely life changing for the better, it opened my eyes to the prospect of long term traveling and since then I have been researching like mad trying to figure out how I can make long term travel part of my life. I have every intention of going back to Israel for a year or so --- There are so many amazing programs for young adults funded through MASA making the trips in Israel not crazy expensive. Unlike Birthright very few of these programs cover the cost of airfare and for most you have to pay some sort of tuition. But if you have $5,000-10,000 I think you could swing it without any problem. I’m generally a cautious person so I am aiming towards the $10,000 or higher range, but I think $5,000 is definitely enough. Besides Israel I would love to WOOF in Greece or India, I think I could start out in Greece and then take a cheap flight to Israel for the year and then end in India (which I just looked up an apparently flights from Israel to India cost a small fortune, so that might have to change). My dilemma is I want to go everywhere.
Let me jump back to my time on Birthright, as I said before it was amazing! This organization does an incredible job with these trips. I got lucky with my group, we all got along so well. We keep up an active conversation over Facebook and I think many of them see each other on a pretty regular basis. I visited a bunch of them in the city a couple weekends ago. And cool thing is I saw a high school friend of mine how I haven’t seen in a couple years because I moved away from California in Tel Aviv! It really did make it seem like a small world...I can’t get over it, seeing someone I haven’t seen in a while all the way over there! She got back from her world travels last night and I am going to see her for dinner tonight, I am very excited!! She wrote a blog about her time in Israel, check it out here
Let me jump back to my time on Birthright, as I said before it was amazing! This organization does an incredible job with these trips. I got lucky with my group, we all got along so well. We keep up an active conversation over Facebook and I think many of them see each other on a pretty regular basis. I visited a bunch of them in the city a couple weekends ago. And cool thing is I saw a high school friend of mine how I haven’t seen in a couple years because I moved away from California in Tel Aviv! It really did make it seem like a small world...I can’t get over it, seeing someone I haven’t seen in a while all the way over there! She got back from her world travels last night and I am going to see her for dinner tonight, I am very excited!! She wrote a blog about her time in Israel, check it out here
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