Day 2

We started our second full day in Tel Aviv at the same time we did the day before and we also went to buy coffee again, because all of us were pretty tired. 

At around 9:30 am we met up with the Drama teacher of Ironi Alef, David, who gave us a tour around Tel Aviv and told us about the architecture of the buildings in the city. 

We started at the school where he told us that the school was built in the Bauhaus style. Afterwards we went to the former German village of Tel Aviv where the first European settlers started to build a village and some of the architecture of the houses is still recognizable today. 

A house in the eclectic style

The so called thermometer house, a house where the stairs are in the middle and the flats at the side of the house

After that he showed us some more ancient buildings and houses of different styles on the Rothschild Boulevard. Fun Fact: The trees on the boulevard have some special fruits, which especially bats really like to eat. So they come at night, eat the fruit and spit out whatever they can't digest. That's why all the house walls on the Rothschild Boulevard are full of stains of bat spit.

The Rothschild Boulevard

When we finished the tour, we still had a couple of hours until we had to meet up at the school, so most of us went to the beach again, swam in the sea, tanned and took many pictures. 

The others went out for lunch, shopping or explored the city a little more. At 3:00 pm we met up with the Israelis and all of us got right into continuing on working on our projects. 

When we were done for the day, some of us went home to have dinner or do something with their host families, others went to Jaffa to a Israeli restaurant to eat Shakshuka and hung out in the amphi theater where you have an awesome view on the Tel Aviv skyline, and again others ate at a burger restaurant and spent time in a park in Tel Aviv. 

Team meeting at a vegan restaurant

Again, when we went to bed we could all look back on an exciting day.