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Re: Wow
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lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.people
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Mon, 3 Jan 2000 16:02:18 GMT
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Shiri wrote:
> In lugnet.loc.il, John Neal writes:
> > I, too, am a big fan of Israel. Studied there in college for a semester
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> Which college?
Actually, the college was St. Olaf in Minnesota. A group of us went and lived in
the old city (The Lutheran hostel) and had professors either take us out on field
trips or come to us to teach.
> > and liked it so
> > much that I dragged my wife there for our honeymoon (we hiked around for 3
> > months).
>
> Where did you go?
Where didn't we go;-) Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Galilee, Golan,Jericho, Masada,Eilat,
down the Sinai to Nuweiba, Dahab. We visited Tels, Churches, Roman
ruins,Kibbutzim, Tels, Roman ruins (;). About the only place we *didn't* go is
Haifa.
> > It is a beautiful country;
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> I agree, and I'm really sad I had to leave. I'm coming back, though.
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> > having the diversity of climate zones of the contig-US compacted into an
> > area the size of New Jersey. I doubt any comparably sized parcel of land has
> > had anywhere
> > near the impact on the history of civilization that that area has (Denmark
> > notwithstanding;)
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> Yeah, Israel's the best :-) (Goooo, Israel!)
> It really is surprising that all the big monotheistic religions found it as a
> holy land, maybe there IS something special there... ;-D
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> >
> > Next year in Jerusalem,
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> I hope to be there(1), but my parents want to stay in the US another year. :-(
> More likely it'll be:
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> Next year in Boston,
lol;-(
> Shiri
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> (1) More specifically, in Kfar Vradim (Rose Village), where I've lived for the
> last nine years.
Where geographically is that?
-John
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| (...) Cool! Sounds like a great way to learn ____ (whatever that is you learned ;) (...) Wow, you've been to more places than I have, and I've lived there almost all my life :-) But I won't grudge you on that ;-) (...) has (...) a (...) year. :-( (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Which college? (...) Where did you go? (...) I agree, and I'm really sad I had to leave. I'm coming back, though. (...) Yeah, Israel's the best :-) (Goooo, Israel!) It really is surprising that all the big monotheistic religions found it as a (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.general)
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