gap year in israel

Weekly Update – Jerusalem February 2, 2018

Tu b’shvat - planted trees

Dear Parents, Here are the highlights from our week: Our Sunday, at the apartment meeting with our madrichim we got into the Tu B’Shvat spirit (the trees’ birthday) by growing our own grass heads. Our counselors brought each one of us a head and on the head we wrote the things we wanted to “grow” […]

Weekly Updates – Tel Aviv November 30, 2017

Gap year in israel - aardvarkisrael

Dear Parents, It has been an exciting week. We had many activities and the real highlight was our overnight trip to the north on Tuesday and Wednesday. However, before giving you more details about it, let’s start from the beginning of the week. Here we go: On Sunday we had the Add Ons’ activities. The […]

Weekly Updates – Jerusalem April 6, 2017

Gap year in israel - aardvarkisrael

Dear Parents, As I write to you the students are cleaning their apartments for Passover. Then we will all sit down for the Passover Seder to have our lunch like a big happy family. We are going to read the Hagadah in Hebrew and then we will sing some Pesach songs and eat Chaya’s famous […]

Weekly Updates – Jerusalem November 22, 2016

Gap year in israel - aardvarkisrael

On Sunday we started our cooking club with Chaya the madricha. We learned to prepare two kinds of lasagna Celeste Williams said that making lasagna with her friends was the highlight of her day., On Tuesday we headed north for an overnight trip with all of Aardvark. We woke up early in the morning and drove north […]