Tuesday, November 9, 2010

The Dead Sea Again

After hiking up and down Masada, our group went to the Dead Sea. We went to a different part, past Ein Gedi. The beach was free and nice; however, the mud still cost money, though this place had buckets that you could buy instead of the packets they sell everywhere in Israel.

Since I was not feeling that well still, I decided not to go in the water and instead I took pictures for people and talked more to the people in my group, many of whom I don't see very often. I actually talked a lot to one of our Madrachim, Sima.She told us that she used to be an Ahava girl in the U.S. (New York specifically). Ahava sells Dead Sea products and they send young Israeli women to various malls across the United States to sell their products. I'm sure that you have seen them somewhere in California, I know there used to a booth of some sort in Parkway Plaza, but I'm not positive it was Ahava. Anyway, she showed us her sales pitch, but she was more interested in talking to people than selling the product and she did not do as well as some of her coworkers. Also, though she liked New York, it was too much for her (she spent a good deal of time in Manhattan).

Most of the people I talked to ended up being from the West Coast (there are quite a few of us, at least 20 University of California students and about five others from Washington and Oregon). We told Sima about the West Coast because she'd never been and tried to explain what Mexican food was (a running theme around here).

Anyway, we were only at the Dead Sea for about an hour and most people just floated for a little while and then got out to eat some of the snacks they provided. Then, we took the bus back to the dorms (another 2 hours) and I for one went to sleep.

Here's some pictures of some of the people on the trip:
My friend Julie

In order: Becka, Jacob, can't tell, Phoebe, and Paul

Sierra and her roommate with Julie

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