Packing Day, Last Shabbat and Last Program

Today was extremely long! We woke up at 7:30 and at 8:30 all met in the Belmont so that we could participate in the David Project. Which is an Israeli advocacy program. For 5 hours we discussed the background knowledge and how to defend Israel. We also learned the “ARM” method. In said method, you take the offensive rather than the defensive stance. It was pretty interesting but extremely long! I was so happy when it was over and I got to eat my apple salad! After lunch, we met in the Zula and got our EIE clothing and the mezuzahs we made a few weeks ago. After we got everything back, and we filled out our EIE surveys, we had several hours to pack up all our stuff. It was so upsetting putting all of our stuff in bags. And our room is still a mess of stuff! At 6:30 we had our last Friday night service. We danced and sung and of course had a regular service. It was extremely sad. After that we had dinner and then oneg. But oneg was our last group program. We did the same sort of thing we did for our first Poland program. Aka we sat in a circle and each person passes the rope to someone they wanted to give a wish or “gift” to and then the person said what they gained from the person that passed it do them. The main difference from when we did this for Poland and tonight was that for Poland we each picked a name and talked to a specific person. Tonight, we choose who we passed the rope to and the madrachim were not in the room at all. Everything was all on us. After well over 2 hours of a group heart to heart, I went back to my room to finish slide shows. And mission accomplished, they are done! And now, I am about to embark on my last night in my room…