Today I went to Yad Lakashish and Hazon Yeshaya.

Yad Lakashish is a place where there are workshops for the elderly and disabled. They work there so they can still feel like they are still contributing members of society. What we did was we walked through the workshop and we talked to people there about their lives now and their lives from before they moved to Israel. In theory that sounds like an easy task. However it was very hard because most of the people there did not speak English or Hebrew, making it really hard to talk to them. However in my limited Russian I was able to tell this elderly gentleman that I was from Los Angeles, then he told me that the town he was born in is hot just like Los Angeles is hot (in Russian), and I was able to tell him that I understood him (in Russian). It was very moving. (so afterwards I felt the need to buy presents for my family in L.A from their gift shop)

After that I went to Hazon Yeshaya. Hazon Yeshaya is an Israeli organization that gives food to people who need it. It made me feel good volunteering there because poverty in Israel is a serous problem. (per capita there are more people below the poverty line in Israel than in Mexico)