Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Welcome to Diller Cohort 7!

Welcome to our newest cohort of Fellows!


To start the year off strong, we have a first post from one of our new fellows, Hannah Rapoport!


We began this 15-month long journey on Sunday by walking into a room filled with people we had never met before.  Sami led us through a multitude of activities the entire day that helped us meet new people, and start to get to know each other.  We started off with a name game where we told the group what we did over vacation, then repeated everyone else’s name and what they did. Although we all had amazing summers, we are all excited to start Diller.  

We also went around and filled peoples names into time slots in 'meeting clock'.  When a time was called, we met with the scheduled person and talked about things like our most embarrassing moment and our favorite food.  We also got to know somethings we had in common with people when we created a human knot and crossed arms with someone we had something in common with. 

Then, we went around the room and put our initials on five pages with Values we most connected with. We then met with bigger groups, and eventually came to an agreement (or Brit) that on our five values of our Cohort were leadership, friendship, Jewish identity, community, and Tikkun Olam.  Coincidentally, three of the five words we chose are all pillars of Diller! 


We then had a meeting with our parents where we discussed in small groups a midrash about names and identity.  After the welcome meeting with parents, we went back into the room where our incredible junior counselors Michelle and Shana answered questions we had about Israel, and the program in general.  We then played a competitive game of Categories.  Overall, between our monthly meetings, weekend retreats, North American Seminar, and Israel, we are all really excited about the new experiences and memories that lay in the coming year!

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