Program Participants and Friends

Here is a little information about the people I will be spending the next nine days with.


Danielle: Hippie from the Upper West Side of New York City…right, hippie! Lives with Mom and Dad and works at an organic restaurant, when not traveling the world--via Jewish peace keeping missions. Danielle will one day shave her legs, brush her hair, and get a job…we hope not!

Lauren: 20-something from the suburbs of Boston. Second year at Tufts…keeps telling us she speaks German, but cannot order us a bier…what kind of German are they teaching her? She’s off to Prauge next year for a semester, we hope she fairs better speaking Czech.

Rachel: Best roommate ever. Charming travel companion. Hold all things that I would otherwise lose.

Michal (read: Israel version of Michelle)—Treating this trip like summer camp…which she loves to reminisce about, including but not limited to childhood stints at: science camp, glass blowing camp, lego camp, matchstick art camps, Hebrew camp, and karate camp. Currently, Michel attends Wellesley, embraces trannies and lezies, and all things Jewy. She will one day rule the world.

Noam: Kosher, Canadian, and jetlagged. He is yet to hang out with us.

Mallory: Lindsay Lohan look alike. Steals glassware at every opportunity. Runs every morning and drinks every night. Initially fronts as the JAP of the group…turns out she’s an Italian-Catholic navy brat. Fortunately, she has wooded us all with her keen sense of the German scene and google maps of bars where she likes to “cruise” and inhabit “dark spaces.”

Uli: German guide. Drinks with American friends. Herds Americans around the city. Fascinated with the American product “the keeper.”

Lisa: German guide. Does “laundry” instead of drinking with American friends. Engages in caddy banter about many of the other Americans on this trip.