Sitting here in mid April on Pesach vacation, I am very impressed with how fast time is passing these days. It feels like I was finishing that last paragraph on Bat Yam, saving it to a memory disk and sending it off maybe sometime last week, but that was an entire month ago!

Three weeks of community volunteering in Holon have passed and my fellow Year Coursers and I fell into a new routine. I go to Mikve Yisrael, a field school and agricultural farm in the center of Holon to work with elementary-aged students in the botanical gardens. After volunteering I come home for lunch with my five other roommates. Then, it's off to ulpan (intensive Hebrew study) or a siyyur (field trip) in the afternoon. Our evenings are usually spent out in nearby Tel Aviv or hanging out in the Holon Kikar (square).