North American Seminar-Thursday, April 7th

In the morning, the Israeli Diller fellows met at Blue Slide Park and began with Ma'agal. They played some circle games, such as a game where one fellow hid a water bottle behind their back and Shosh had to figure out which fellow hid it. They then wrote letters addressed to themselves, which will be sent to them next year, so they will have a nice reminder of their time in Pittsburgh long after they will have visited! The group then split up. Half went to Community Day School and the other half went to Yeshiva. They spoke to students at the schools and had lunch in their school cafeterias. After that, they went back to the AJL and began to plan the activities for the week when the American fellows will come and visit. The fellows arrived, we received beautiful necklaces with musical notes on them to remind us of the musical, and we headed off to Allderdice for the spring musical! The show they put on was called “Urinetown.” It was about a large company that rationed out small portions of water to the local people at charged them to use public restrooms. The people revolted and overthrew the large company, which let them go to the bathroom for free. However, the town eventually ran out of water and this is how the musical ended. One of our cohort members, Asher Wiseman, was the lead role and narrator in the musical. He performed his part beautifully and sang like a god. Everyone really enjoyed the musical and couldn’t stop talking about it. The musical was the last time everyone saw each other before the weekend with the host families. Everybody is really excited for the weekend and can’t wait to see whats in store for the rest of the North American Seminar.