Last sleep in New Zealand...

Hi everyone! Tali here. Well, the moment has finally arrived. Tomorrow evening we leave for Israel to embark on this amazing adventure of a lifetime!! The last month has been a hectic blur of packing lists,  nervous anticipation and tearful goodbyes. Sarah and I have been spending our days shopping for everything we need, seeing school friends who will be greatly missed this year and trying to come to terms with the fact that we are actually leaving our homes and our country.

Both of us have hosted farewell parties to say goodbye to our friends, and we thought it would be a cool idea to show you guys some pictures from our last week in Auckland!

Me and a group of friends at my farewell party

A rather attractive snap from Sarah's farewell celebrations

Enjoying the New Zealand summer while I can!

Gathering of the Habo Jews! 

So as you can see, we've been making the most of our last days in Auckland, but now it's time to organize all the little details and get on that plane! We will be having a small Mizdah ceremony at the airport with lots of leaders and chanichim alike from Habo as a farewell, then we're off and away!

Here's where our adventure truly begins. So goodbye for now, and next time we speak to you guys will be from the Holy Land!! We can't wait! 

Last machane as channies!

The Habo camp of 2011 has been a great success this year, with the theme of 'awareness of our world' feeding into a variety of enlightening programs. It was a very emotional moment when we realised that it was our last summer camp as chanichim (youth). However, this also made it all the more exciting in light of the fact that we are now going on shnat in a little over two weeks! It felt very strange to have such a massive change imposed on us in such a chilled environment. Nonetheless, camp has been the perfect buildup to shnat, and although the quickly approaching date scares me, it is very exciting too!

Here of some photos of our camp:

One of our programs that involved making a warrior outfit for someone out of cardboard and tinfoil.

Swimming in the river the morning after a very hilly overnight hike.

Kvutsah Nemala - our shnat group - in front of the flag on shabbat.

The girls going on Machon.

Bonim Takeover, zombie style!

Our Bonim group on Shabbat. The scenery behind us was absolutely stunning, especially at sunrise and sunset.