Monday Dec 10, 2007
Posted by Shana Dorfman
There are unquantifiable benefits to coming to Israel through a group program, as opposed to on your own: for example, the knowledge that someone else would take care of the bureaucratic hassles of renewing my volunteer visa after the first three months, thus relieving me from having to do the dirty work myself. You can imagine my disappointment when my madricha pulled me aside one day and explained that she was unable to obtain an extension of my visa for me.
"It seems that you're Israeli," she informed me.
"No that's not possible", I explained.
Turns out I was mistaken.
You see, my mom lived in Israel for several years when she was around my age, before returning to the Land of Opportunity in 1978.
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Dagoberto Mensch: To #18. Thank you for your correction. However, even debit cards mean people do have salaries. And to have the same school curricula for everyone - ask anyone here in Brazil (200 million people) - let´s have a show of hands! Ironically, the A.S Neill's Summerhill School (Suffolk, England) stands for children choosing their own curricula. However, it was never really acceped by most people. And France is (or at least was for a long time) famous for its public universal education. Anyway, shalom for you.
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