This week we are preparing for our apostolic experiences with mixed feelings: happy and sad because we will separate from one another. We are pretty sure that we will enjoy these experiences. This week Geymi from Ecuador asked us to take care of Sophie her daughter because in the Kehila community where she used to leave Sophie with the volunteers who take care of the children is closed this week because they went camping. Our community accepted her request to take care of Sophie for 3 days. Now, finally we can say that our house is finished. We have been working in our garden planting flowers and vegetables. How lovely seeing our garden green and colorful! On Friday evening Sister Maureena Fritz invited us to have the Sabbath meal in her house. Before that we went to the Synagogue called Kol Haneshma wich is a progressive Synagogue. A young lady was leading the prayer service and for me the prayer was amazing! I noticed that all their prayer was from the book of Song of …

This has been a month full of surprises and visits! We began our month with a one-day session on finances, with Sr. Trudy and Sr. Phil, which was really good. We had questions for reflection and we were divided into two groups to share what we had learned through our experiences as well. The following day we visited the school called “Hand in Hand”. This school brings together Arab and Jewish children. It is one of the five “Hand in Hand” schools – in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Haifa, Galilee, Wadi Ara, and Jerusalem. They are centres for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel which enable peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs through the development of integrated, bilingual and multicultural education. In four of the schools, the number of students at each grade level is balanced equally between Arab and Jewish children. Students at all grade levels are taught in both Hebrew and Arabic. Victoria looks forward to the challenge of working full-time as a volunteer in the first and second classes helping specially the Jewish children to learn …