Israel Reflections–Closing Thoughts
This will be the last post regarding the trip from Israel (at least for now!) and I wanted to close with some of the students’ last reflections and humorous comments about the trip:
Most people said I was a little crazy for heading to Israel in my first trip out of the country but what more could I ask for? We went to meetings and museums, saw Roman ruins, and spent time at the beach. I was feeling pretty good about my knowledge of the region both from my own studies and from the preparation I had from the first few weeks of class. After patting myself on the back on the way over, almost as soon as we landed I realized what a neat little box I had placed around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Needless to say, the conflict is anything but.