Today-Tuesday we first went to the Israel Tennis Centre. I've always heard, and read about how unique the tennis centre is. The uniquely designed tennis programs include ones for kids who are developmentally challenged, who come from 'at risk' families, and immigrants The tennis program that they are most known for is the program especially for Jewish and Arab children; which promotes tolerance, cross-cultural relationships and peaceful coexistence.
We drove 30 minutes from the tennis centre to a crusader fortress and an Arab village. They were both really cool to see! We went to a place that looked like a normal park, but we walked 10 minutes and found ourselves in a crusader fortress.
Our ICC teacher brought paper shields, swords and masks for us to put on. We went through the fortress doors and started fighting the other ICC group.
After that, we got on the bus and left for the Arab Village. We went into a beautiful mosque and had a question and answer session with a woman who was from Britain and converted to Islam. I learned a lot about what they believe in, and how they practice their religion. I never really knew anything about Islam so it was really cool to learn, there are a lot of similarities between Islam and Judaism. All of the girls had to wear a hijab to enter the mosque. We were all fully covered with long skirts and hijabs and boys in long pants.
Me and Zmira fully covered in hijabs
After visiting the mosque, we went to the Shuk. Although, it was raining and we only had 15 minutes there, I still found time to buy some candy.
Tomorrow we our celebrating Purim with all of Chavat Hanoer Hatziani (the campus). We were split up into 5 groups according to our theme of 'high school'; nerds, hipsters, goths, jocks and cheerleaders. We are performing the dances in front of the whole campus on Wednesday night. I'll write a seperate post about our Purim celebrations this weekend.
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