I wake up in the morning, just like any human. So do my friends. I brush my teeth, eat breakfast, say goodbye to my parents and sister, and go to school.

I hate it when it’s too hot, I love rain and cold- I have preferences just like anyone else in the world. I love my family and friends, and I also love reading, sports, scouts…

I have two eyes and two hands, and even two legs- which all work well and for that I’m grateful. I have to ears, and I use them quite a lot for music.

I’m pretty regular, I think. Just a human, like most of the people I know.

So I don’t get it… There are so many people like me, of almost any religion and any nation, so how come so many people are racists?

They have never met me, but still I’m some sort of monster, just because I’m a Jew, or an Israeli, which ever one they hate more. I can’t find any logic in it. I could find so many flaws in their religion and nation, but even so it doesn’t mean I hate them all, because I believe in the human race and its ability to improve, but some people just spread hate around them.

And what especially mystifies me are people who claim they hate all Jews/Israelis because we are racist. It’s not true, but let’s say it is; they are racists because racism is a bad thing?

And sometimes it actually hurts… I see for example my little sister, a eight years old little girl. She loves music and is so creative, she sings all day, and always hugs and kisses the family and plays, spreading smiles all around. The worst thing she has done was get mad when she was told to go to sleep… And huge numbers of people all around the world would love her dead (or even to do it themselves). It makes me so frustrated and angered. All the wonderful things here, the nature, so many beautiful people and friends, just people… Before anything else they are human, and being a human isn’t a fault, nor is being Israeli or Jewish.

And… “You are making a choice to live like this”- all racists. You claim you want peace, but hating a whole nation is the quickest way into war.
And imagine that little girl was your sister… Imagine all the humans you loved were hated bby so many… You blame us for protecting ourselves? Well then, let me tell you something:
We don’t have to sit and apologize while people murder our world with words of hate and acts of hypocrisy.

I just wish I could light up the sky for all these people I love, and that you could find a light to open your eyes and get out or racism…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ6XRmAVmOk

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     The “Friendship Caravan” is a group of Israeli scouts who travel around America and perform. They dance, and sing- Hebrew songs of course, and show scouts and people around America in general what we Israelis and Israeli scouts are like through the music culture.

     One of the people from my tribe, Kobi, went with that caravan. We all miss him very bad, but we are glad to know he is having fun and doing something so wonderful, even though we are eager to have him back.

     In this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7C7B5j05Mo) video, he is the one who speaks at the beginning. I wish him good luck, all of them, and that everyone who gets to watch them will enjoy too. 8]

     Here are some more videos of them you can watch and enjoy:

     The Israeli scout’s song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut1B_COUFZA&feature=related

     An explanation about the program: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJxn1BK42c&feature=related

     And some more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_wS13jHYbA&feature=related

     And one of the prettiest in my opinion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkYl9NZA9es&feature=related

     The scouts in Israel are involved and care for what happens to the country- and so all the scouts of ninth grade this year chose our main subject to be Gilad Shalit.

     At the ending course of this year for all scouts of my age read a letter which we wrote for Gilad, in which we said how much we wish he was here. We said how much we care. We told about all the things we are and will be doing for him- here.

     I wish so much that all of this wasn’t necessary. I wish those terrorists would just give us back our dear brother, but it just isn’t like that. I hope there is actually something we can do against those terrorists.

     But no matter how painful and hard the subject is, we still care. All of us are behind Gilad, and the scouts are only a part of all the people who deeply care for him.

     We are united against terror, and we all want him back. At least that we have, and terrorists don’t: Israel and its entire true people care for their brothers and value life. Gilad will never be alone, even if the rest of the world refuses to see the Israeli side mostly, we are still with Gilad.

     We have hope, belief, and pure causes, and that none can take.

     Be strong, Gilad!

My first word should and will be: WOW!
These were amazing five days. There were harder parts, calmer parts, fun parts, studying…
The main goal of this five day trip, or course, is to teach the scouts of ninth grade to be good scouts of the adult layer; tenth grade to the thirteenth. At those years, the scout becomes a true member of the youth movement and becomes more effective. As part of the older layer, the course has more intent studies of how to be a counselor.
I had a most amazing counselor! I have had a wonderful and amazing counselor through the whole year, and she taught me most, but in these five days thanks to this counselor I have actually understood that I should be a counselor my self and pretty much got over my fear of leading an activity to a group. I wish I could thank him better than just words! Both of them!
I learned so much…
At the third day we had a three hour walk to a sort of forest in which we slept. The funny part is that on the way back to where we started- it was only two minutes XD I found that amusing, but there were also some who got angered in a way ^^”
I met a lot of new people. They were all so nice and special 8] I also had the friend from my tribe (Tribe Idan: White, Blue, and Orange forever!) of the scouts with me, and I’m defiantly very happy she was with me. We were together pretty much all the time. I’m sorry for the times I annoyed her… But we were together all the time anyways… 8P Love you <3
At the end, at the ceremony, we got a counseling diploma (which also helps find a job if needed), and the third patch out of three which clarify we passed the counseling course this year. My whole family came to the ceremony- it was great, and also the one who is my counselor this year came. My friend and I crashed her with hugs; my family got better hugs after I got cleaned. We sang lots of morals, and let ourselves go crazy with the happiness.
My group was also responsible for a fire writing which burned at the back, saying:”The north does with love” (I’m part of the scouts of the northern part of Israel).
I returned home tired, with a crooked voice, dirty, with mosquito bites all over me, and very happy. ^^
Good luck to all of us! 8] And like my counselor said, the main thing is: “Be yourselves”!

F-I-N-A-L-L-Y!

     Finally, after a long year, the summer vacation in Israel has begun, at least for students who study in junior high schools.

     Like at any other place in the world, students here who have been working hard all year wait all year for this vacation. It is our time to relax, have fun, and a little bit of freedom. Everyone needs this, and kids in Israel are not any different.

     Everybody make so many plans… Pools, sea, a first job, shopping, reading, having fun with friends, books… There are so many things I my self would like to do that I have no idea where to start.

     Anyways, as you can see, the two month summer vacation in Israel is not different than how it is in any other place in the world, and kids here like having fun just like in any other place in the world too.

     The vacation begins today, and ends in September 1^st. I wish everyone a wonderful vacation, and that they will get to do everything they planned!

     But for now, before I begin having fun, I will go back to the work we got from school. After that, I hope soon enough I will have better things to write about… 8P What I do know for sure is that I’ll have more time to write…

     Great summer everyone!

Well, I guess this is my first hello. 8]

To say the truth, I still have no idea how to work this thing. Never thought of opening my own blog, but…

I do love my country- Israel. And I do hope this will help show it’s not some third world country, and not a desert, not a place in which people suffer, and not a place which is only one big mess and war.

My Israel?

 It’s home, and a home which I would trade for nothing- even if I was given the chance (and I already proved that, when I chose to come back here and not to stay in the U.S.A, even though it’s a It’s a too).
It’s a place where most of the people I love so dearly live.
It’s the place in which I can get in twenty minutes to the sea, about an hour to snow, around my area all green, and a little more than two hours desert like view.
It’s a place in which I can go on a trip, and then go to Tel Aviv if I want to be in a beautiful very advanced  city and see how technology has advanced all around.
I can study, I can have fun, I can be a patriot, I can believe or not believe in God, and I can be myself- a Jew, without fearing anyone, since I have my own country to protect me.

And in this blog I hope to get my chance to tell you everything about my Israel, from the point of view of just another teenager, just like you- wherever it is you live.

So that’s all for now, since just like any other teenager, I have homework waiting 8/ (OK, well, the ones who do their home work 8P Bet the ones who don’t have more time for fun XD).

Will write again soon 8]