By Eliot Herron
Today we drove for an hour and a half to get to Tel Aviv. It was really hot and sunny. When we got to Tel Aviv, we went to the blind museum.
The blind museum is a place where you get to understand what it’s like to be blind by going through seven normal day experiences in the dark. We experienced a market, a parking lot, a boat, a dance party, a beach, a library, and a restaurant. At the restaurant, we actually got to order food and eat in the dark. After the tour was over, our tour guide, Moona, let us ask her questions about what it is like to live with visual impairment. After we left the museum, we all better understood what it was like to be blind.
We ate falafel and schnitzel for lunch before heading over to the graffiti tour. We walked around Tel Aviv for an hour and half and talked about the different reasons that people do graffiti. It is illegal in Israel, but artists are not penalized because it has become a tourist attraction. Some of the pieces of art have become very meaningful. One of the pieces has been unchanged for over 22 years because of the meaning that it had to the whole community. The tour helped us to learn how important art can be to a community, and how it is used to give people a voice.
At the end of the tour, we headed back to the village to spend Shabbat dinner with our mishpachtonim.