{"id":3185,"date":"2014-04-18T21:42:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T21:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2014-04-18T21:55:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T21:55:19","slug":"traveling-around-tel-aviv-israel-life-international-school-teacher-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/traveling-around-tel-aviv-israel-life-international-school-teacher-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Around: Tel Aviv, Israel (The life of an international school teacher is good!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traveling Around: Tel Aviv,\u00a0Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Can you relate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Getting stopped by the passport control workers for questioning for two hours because of some of the stamps you have in your passport.
\n\u2022 Asking for help with the train from the airport to the center of the city because of the huge culture shock of not knowing how to read the local script or understand any of the announcements going on over the speaker system.
\n\u2022 Arriving at your hotel so late (and missing your dinner) and going to the nearest restaurant possible which just so happens to be Mexican.
\n\u2022 Going straight to the beach the first morning your have (a nice change of scenery from your home country) and having a nice stroll on the sand.
\n\u2022 Realizing that if you get a cache of the map of the city on google maps that you can use the GPS even without having internet access.
\n\u2022 Finding a local who in the end\u00a0gives you excellent advice to go to a\u00a0place that has the best falafel in the city; and it actually being very good!
\n\u2022 Enjoying visiting a country\/city during a non-high season time that is actually a very nice time to go; enjoying the city without hardly any tourists.
\n\u2022 Being entranced by the local stray cat population and taking many pictures of them!
\n\u2022 Learning more about the local political situation by listening to a number of local and personal perspectives.
\n\u2022 Seeing a group of people (in this instance Hasidic Jews) in a whole new light after watching and observing them up close, rather than from far away.
\n\u2022 Appreciating that the airport security isn’t that bad when compared to the security measures that you must go through at the Tel Aviv airport.
\n\u2022 Getting used to the sight of many uniformed soldiers (very quickly actually) walking around the city.
\n\u2022 Walking around at night trying to find a specific restaurant, then getting to the place and enjoying the guest speaker that they were having that night (she was talking in Hebrew, but the waiter told me all about her).
\n\u2022 Taking advantage of the beaches a second time (even though it was too cold to swim in them) to check out the nice turquoise color, it was beautiful.
\n\u2022 Having to leave a day early because the airline that I was flying with cancelled their flight with less than 48 hours notice!
\n\u2022 Going though another tough security control leaving the country and having the agent open up my suitcase to then take almost everything out of it to check the things inside. Not fun to repack everything!<\/p>\n

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Currently we have 4<\/strong> international schools listed in Israel\u00a0on\u00a0International School Community<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Anglican International School Jerusalem<\/a>\u00a0(3 Comments)
\n\u2022\u00a0Jerusalem American International School<\/a>\u00a0(8 Comments)
\n\u2022\u00a0Eastern Mediterranean International School<\/a>\u00a0(0 Comments)
\n\u2022\u00a0Walworth Barbour American International School<\/a>\u00a0(27 Comments)<\/p>\n

If you are on a trip right now, away from your host country, write to us at\u00a0admin@internationalschoolcommunity.com<\/a>\u00a0with your “Can you relate?” traveling experiences.\u00a0 Tell us where you are traveling in the world, what you are seeing and how you are coping with any culture shock.\u00a0 Once your Traveling Around\u00a0experience is posted on our blog, International School Community will give\u00a06 free months of premium membership<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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