I know this is a few weeks late, but it was just so great that I still had to write about it! The day before my birthday was a free day, so we went to Tel Aviv. All but three of us in the entire group loaded up in buses and headed strait to the beach. We weren't quite sure what to expect, but we got there just after 10:00 and huried into the water. The water was the saltiest ocean I have ever been in (I can't even imagine what it's going to be like when we go to the Dead Sea!), but it was also the warmest water I have ever swam in! I was thrown around and tossed about in that water, it was also the most brutal ocean that I have been in, but it was absolutely magical!! It was SO great to go to the beach! Sara went with a few other girls on a run for almost an hour and I played catch with a couple of people and collected some Israeli sea shells :) no big deal! Then a smaller group of us explored Tel Aviv and came across a gelato shop, so clearly we had to stop and treat ourselves! We had just enough time to go take pictures with the entire coast and city in the background before heading back to the center.
The morning of my birthday I walked out of my room to go to breakfast and there were streamers and a sign on my door as well as a sign hanging up right in front of the cafeteria. It was a field trip day, so I spent the day in the Negev desert. We saw structures from nearly 4,000 years ago including where Abraham stayed for awhile at Beersheva. I was able to call home and after that we partied all night along--it was my best birthday ever!
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