Day 7

Sunday, it had already been a week since we had arrived in Israel (!), our exchange partners had to go to school like every other week day and we went on a trip to Jaffa. Jaffa is a very old town that is over four thousand years old and is right next to Tel Aviv so it was easy for us to walk there.

View on Tel Aviv

We made a short stop at the beach and talked about our day off and Mrs. Teschner and Mrs. Menke gave us a task to do in Jaffa.

In groups of five or six people we had to take a photo which represents a word given to us like 'Integration'. The best group would win a prize and was to be announced on Monday. Until 4 pm we were able to explore Jaffa by ourselves and we got to see the sea, the skyline of Tel Aviv and other great places. We also went to the flea market and the little shops around where you could buy many little things and a lot of food.

A view of Tel Aviv from Jaffa

That's us!:)

In Jaffa

After we had met up at the school again, we were invited together with the Israelis to the German Goethe Institut in Tel Aviv. There was a woman who talked to us about the current refugee project of the institut where they ask intellectuals from over 40 countries the same questions about refugees and on the website the results will be shown soon. After the presentation was over, we had a little feedback round where we talked to the teachers about what we think about the project and pros and cons of our week. Overall we were really happy how the exchange turned out to be and all of us have had a lot of fun. 

After the feedback, our evening program without the teachers started and first we all went to the mall to do a little shopping and eat something. After that, we took the public bus and went to a karaoke bar in Tel Aviv. We had rented a room with a karaoke machine just for us for 1 1/2 hours and we had a lot of fun. We played and sang songs like Halo by Beyonce, Hit me baby one more time by Britney Spears and Sorry by Justin Bieber and many many more. After we were done at the karaoke bar it was already pretty late and most of us went home to get a little sleep.