Wow, it's almost over, time flies so fast.

Today I am filling out papers and comments about my time in Switzerland with the EVS program, it feels good and sad at the same time, it feels good that I came for something and achieved what I wanted and almost finished it, but it is sad because it will end very soon, and I am used to life here in Switzerland.

I've met amazing people, amazing host families, loving co-workers, loving mentors and such an amazing organization. I met people that I will always remember, care about and love to see again. I have had some deep relationships with people my age and even twenty years older than me.

I volunteered in different places, like building a wall on a beautiful mountain, with any kind of weather, cold, hot, windy, rainy even snowy at times, it was tough but cool at the same time.
Also, baking christmascookies with people with special needs was one of the things that changed me and made me appreciate life, I loved being there, I liked being able to establish good relationships with people who do not matter who or what. From each person they learn a lot and also learn from you, also my co-workers in bernaville were loving people with a big heart.

Then working in the nature park was fun, I learned a lot about nature, about light, and the stars, and Nicole was my manager, my teacher and my friend.

Finally working in the ski center was a huge thing in itself, it was my first time skiing, I learned a new sport which is very cool and exciting and even working there in the office also outside was helping with the skiing classes was fun.
The cute couple that owns the school are extremely loving and caring, and they gave me everything I needed and more. My co-worker was an amazing woman, I will always look for her and remember her and hope we meet again one day.

Overall it was a great experience, I learned a lot and matured from it, of course I ran into a lot of difficulties here and there, but I overcame them, and we always remember the good parts of the experiences.

Less than a month left! It is not normal that the time is running out so fast!

This is the last week with my family in Plaffeien. A family that is very nice, and they love to live and get to know each other and help, they have a daughter and a son who I love to go after work, eat with them, talk to the mother and father, draw or play with their children.
With a sense of comfort and love, we talk a lot, about life and reality, on the difference between my country and Switzerland and about a lot other than.

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There's now also my last day of my work in the skiing school, it was wow! I worked with a Muslim woman from Africa, I learned a lot from her, a wonderful woman, who for me was a manager, a mother and a friend! It helped me a lot, it gave me a wonderful feeling. And my boss Benedict, her husband, was one of the kindest and best people I got to know! Everything I need is present and their dealings with me and their customers are wonderful. They loved them and I loved them a lot. The most important thing is that I proved myself to them and me.

And the skiing teachers are the best for the youngest wonderful kids.
I am someone who likes to meet a lot of people of all kinds and volunteer in Switzerland gave me this opportunity.

I encountered some difficulties here during my whole period in Switzerland, feeling lonely sometimes, boredom, fear, drunkenness due to the Corona, etc. But without these difficulties, one does not grow up, learn, and not develop! Every time I felt hard, I knew that these difficulties would make me grow up and learn a lot and be the strongest human being.

The rest of the two months of my trip here in Switzerland, a strange feeling, I miss my family a lot, friends and my country, and at the same time I do not want to return.

I am comfortable with my people and I discover more Switzerland. There is an unnatural calm in these winterdays of nature that control the country and the people. This calm helps me discover more about my current self and gives me psychological comfort in order to draw, make films and develop.

Being in days of loneliness and boredom, days full of people and activities. Next week I will start a new job in a new area with a new family, eager to change, for something new, but I will long for "my sister" and my family and friends here.

I wake up in the morning and take the rented car and write down the name of a new area on the map, while I am on the way listening to my songs and discovering many beautiful new streets and areas.

Surching for the required area in the "Naturepark Gantrisch" and make the camera work and start making pictures my boss asked me to take. Pictures of nature houses, trees, churches, lakes and rivers. They photographed it between 5 and 7 years ago, and they need to bring it back to compare and examine the changes to make.

The last days I worked togehter with my projectleader Nicole, at night to photograph the stars, we would go to many dark areas and there was no one there, and we photographed the stars, madly!! An indescribable sight! A new and beautiful feeling, I learn a lot from her about nature, light, the moon and stars. A very beautiful job, difficult at times a lot of responsibility and pressure to prove oneself to them and myself, but it deserves every minute. In this experience I learned and experienced a lot.

First time in my life learning to ski, wow! Fear, falling, jealousy, children under the age of five, skiing like champions, and I am 24 years old and fall every 10 minutes.

The first two days I asked myself what was going on, but on the third and fourth days I was shocked by myself and my ability to ski! We went up to the mountain from the third day and went down skiing. What a great feeling: the speed, altitude, beauty, energy, and strength.

On the last day, we decided to go down the mountain skiing without a teacher. We were afraid and hesitated a lot, what would happen if we were standing and who would help us, but fear did not control us and we made it!

Getting used to is a difficult thing, but a sweet one. It takes time to get used to it, but time to get used to seeing things easy and learning a lot of growth.

I almost reached the halfway in Switzerland. I got used to a little cold, but it is not very cold. We simplify the scenery and the sweet and free feeling. White, free and comfortable feeling. Christmas is one of the best holidays, everyone is happy, many beautiful decorations, lights and colors that go crazy, and in a big country like this, it is very sweet.

I draw, study, read, dance with my little "sister", I get attached to the family more and more. I have a week left in my job baking christmas cookies with people with special needs. At this time, I learned a lot about myself and life, and I am excited.

Today I’m about 90 days in Switzerland, far away from my family and my home. It’s a strange feeling, something is missing, but it’s very nice at the same time. Everything changed overnight: new work, new country, new people, new customs and a new family. I can feel how I change and grow. I develop my personality more and more.

Now I live with my new family, a lovely family, happy and comfortable, giving me a feeling like I'm home. We live in a remote area. I have to bike everyday to work, it's hard, but it’s got amazing nature, a lot of greens. At home we have three cats and two dogs, all crazy but I love them.

When I arrived in Switzerland, Porat and I had to be quarantined for 14 days in the same house. I was afraid that we wouldn’t get along with each other and that we couldn’t get comfortable. I mean 14 days living with someone I only met once in my life for one or two hours. How would we do that? But on the contrary: They were 14 beautiful days, time passed quickly, we got to know each other and rested all day long.The reason we had to go to quarantine was, that the time we traveled to Switzerland was right when Jerusalem got closed because of Corona. So, we were stuck in a beautiful house in Switzerland and felt like it was a vacation.

After the quarantine during the drystone-project I lived with a woman in her 60s. The first day was very strange. I didn’t understand what I was allowed to do and what not. Also, she didn’t know my habits and I didn’t know hers. With time (less than a week), I got to know her more and more and it became a wonderful month. I loved it a lot. I loved the life with her; I loved her appartement, I loved her customs and most importantly the way of life and her strength. We used to play cards together, laugh and talk a lot. It was a beautiful and comfortable month and I learned a lot.

Now I live in my second family and I bake Christmas cookies with people with special needs, it’s a beautiful feeling. At first it was hard for me to adapt because of language issues and other reasons, but a few hours later it became easier and easier. I love to go there and see all the nice people.