To our beautiful parents,
Today, we woke up in a Bedouin tent. Basically a Bedouin tent is a community where different people live and they opened their arms to us for the night. The differences between a Bedouin tent and our homes is that we all slept on the floor with each other with few lights while at home we have our own bed, and electricity is unlimited. The leaders of the day were Jacob Kander and Noah Gup. They woke up early and got everybody up, preparing people to go to breakfast and get ready to pack up the bus.
After our plates were clean and our bags and our bags were packed, we were on our way to our first activity of the day, which was repelling. Although most of us were nervous, there was no Israeli or American that didn’t repel down the mountain. With sunscreen soaked in our skin, we spent a long two and hours in the Negev while everybody went rapelling. We all enjoyed the experience of stepping out of our comfort zone and doing something that we have never done before.
After rapelling, we were on our way to Congress. When we got there, we were greeted by the other five Diller chapters: Montreal, San Francisco, Baltimore, Los Angeles and Metro West (New Jersey and New York). We departed from our Israelis and they headed home back to Karmiel-Misgav only for one night because they will be joining us at the Diller International Congress. We had an opening ceremony where all of the Diller groups performed introduction. Our introduction was our own version of the Fresh Prince of Belair, where we each had two lines describing our own personalities and who we are as a group and individuals.
Following the opening ceremony, we had dinner and our first meeting with our separated groups, where two people from each Diller chapter are put with two other people with each chapter and talked about the importance of remembering who we are as Jewish teens by creating a time capsule where we would pick a group of items that if we forgot our memory, what would remind us of who we are. A teen zullah (dance party) occurred after our final meetings with our small groups.
Love.
Your freshly showered children (well, maybe only some of us)
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