Sharing what life is like studying abroad as a high school student.

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  • Recap

    WOW WOW and WOW and yes, I’m screaming this! I’ve had the semester of a lifetime, and I need every teen like me to know that they can do this too. I’m a LA transplant who moved to a small mountain town (Park City, Utah) in 2021. I’m the girl who randomly decided to go abroad and spend my second semester of my sophomore year amid a war almost 7,000 miles away, and in Israel…

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  • Week 19

    This has been the most incredible journey that I never imagined I would have and I cannot believe my time in Israel is almost up.  After 4 days of hiking, bonding, learning and experiencing, our group returned to campus and I think I took the longest shower I’ve ever taken. You have to understand how hot it is here now and between sleeping in the dirt, swimming in rivers and waterfalls, and sweating to death,…

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  • Week 18

    This week’s blog will be the entire Yam Le Yam trip. We hiked from Haifa all the way to the Kinnerat. Our first day started at 8am as we boarded the bus to head up north to Haifa where we had our opening ceremony. We all stood on the beach and received plastic little bottles to put the water from the Mediterranean Sea in. We sang the Haktivah and then drove to where our hiking…

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